It can be argued that much consumer dissatisfaction with marketing strategies arises from an inability to aim advertising at onl

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问题     It can be argued that much consumer dissatisfaction with marketing strategies arises from an inability to aim advertising at only the likely buyers of a given product. There are three groups of consumers who are affected by the marketing process. First, there is the market segment—people who need the commodity in question. Second, there is the program target—people in the market segment with the "best fit" characteristics for a specific product. Lots of people may need trousers, but only a few qualify as likely buyers of very expensive designer trousers. Finally, there is the program audience all people who are actually exposed to the marketing program without regard to whether they need or want the product.  These three groups are rarely identical. An exception occurs occasionally in cases where customers for a particular industrial product may be few and easily identifiable. Such customers, all sharing a particular need, are likely to form a meaningful target, for example, all companies with a particular application of the product in question, such as highspeed fillers of bottles at breweries. In such circumstances, direct selling(marketing that reaches only the program target)is likely to be economically justified, and highly specialized trade media exist to expose members of the program target—and only members of the program target—to the marketing program.
    Most consumer-goods markets are significantly different. Typically, there are many rather than few potential customers. Each represents a relatively small percentage of potential sales. Rarely do members of a particular market segment group themselves neatly in- to a meaningful program target. There are substantial differences among consumers with similar demographic characteristics. Even with all the past decade’ s advances in information tech- nology, direct selling of consumer goods is rare, and mass marketing—a marketing approach that aims at a wide audience^—remains the only economically feasible mode. Unfortunately, there are few media that allow the marketer to direct a marketing program exclusively to the program target. Inevitably, people get exposed to a great deal of marketing for products in which they have no in- terest and so they become annoyed.
According to the passage, most consumer-goods markets share which of the following characteristics? I . Customers who differ significantly from each other. II. Large numbers of potential customers. III . Customers who each represent a small percentage of potential sales.

选项 A、I only
B、II only
C、I and II only
D、II and III only
E、I , II and III

答案E

解析 照原文,大多数消费市场有什么特征:这在最后一段一开始时提到(L38—41)。I.消费者相互差异 Ⅱ.有大量潜在顾客 Ⅲ.顾客各代表一小部分潜在销售这就是最后一段开始三句话。∴E.I和Ⅱ和Ⅲ
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