DECA Marketing Performance Indicators Questions and Answers

DECA Marketing Performance Indicators

Questions and Answers

Explain the concept of market and market identification. ✔✔A market is a group of consumers who have a common interest, need or want of a given good or service. This group of consumers also must be able to purchase the product. Identifying a market is an important activity in marketing as products will not appeal to everyone. Marketers identify markets' common interests by classifying consumer's demographic, geographic and psychographic information. Examples of this information include age, income, education, zip code, buying behavior, and leisure activities. Identify the elements of the promotional mix. ✔✔There are five main elements of the promotional mix, which can be remembered using the acronym PPADS. Personal selling is when sales representatives sell products by communicating directly with the consumer. Public relations involve managing the company's perceived image through non-paid advertising and different media channels. Advertising is any paid, non-personal activity that serves to promote the