Vicki is an independent insurance agent who has seen little increase in her revenues over the last two years. Her main marketing efforts have been mass mailings on a regular basis, but these have seen little response. She takes a marketing class and learns about segmentation. She calls and talks with her current clients and identifies most are over the age of 40, own two cars and a home, and have at least two children. Vicki strategizes the types of marketing campaigns to effectively reach these current and potential customers like her current clients. Vicki used segmentation identification to meet which of its objectives?A.) increasing marketing effciency by directing efforts toward general market segments
B.) reduced company risk by deciding where when how and whom a product service or brand will be marketed
C.) identifying but not classifying people into comparable groups.

Explain the relationship between consumers and producers in economic growth and activity

1. list five staple convenience goods that you or your household buys on a regular basis. (you do not need to use complete sentences. 2.5 points) 2. list three impulse convenience goods that you or someone you know has purchased. (you do not need to use complete sentences. 2.5 points) 3. describe a shopping good that you or someone you know purchased. what kind of research did you or that person do before buying the product? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points) 4. choose an example of a company you could start, and decide which business structure would make the most sense for that type of company (sole proprietorship, partnership, llc, c corporation, s corporation, or nonprofit corporation). explain why this structure would be good for this type of company. give at least 3 reasons. (3-6 sentences. 6.0 points) 5. if you were starting a new business, describe at least three departments to the company that you would need right away. why are these departments so important? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points) 6. describe a product that you think has saturated its market. what makes you think it has saturated its market? (1-5 sentences. 3.0 points)

Juanita and sam attend a beach party and notice that the local beach appears to have a great deal more trash washed up on shore than it did when they were young. the water doesn't appear nearly as clear, and there seems to be less evidence of small water creatures living in the shallows. an afternoon at the local library convinces them that one major cause is the new factory nearby. after some discussion, they decide their next step should be identifying the cause of the changes identifying the problem picketing the guilty factory lobbying their elected representatives to complain about the problem talking to a local environmental group about solutions