Adding to the Traditional Marketing Concept, the Societal Marketing Concept

question 20

Multiple Choice

Adding to the traditional marketing concept, the societal marketing concept states that:

• A) the focus of all company operations should be meeting the customer's needs and wants in ways that distinguish a company from its competition.
• B) company efforts should be integrated and coordinated in such a way to meet organizational objectives and achieve profitability.
• C) a company is required to balance customer satisfaction, company profits, and the long-term welfare of society.
• D) a company's sales and revenues are inextricably tied to the quality of each of its products, services, and modes of delivery and to its image and reputation among its constituencies.
• E) a company markets itself through everything it does, its substance as well as its style; it is that all-encompassing package that the organization then sells.

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Definitions:

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