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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.
The passage suggests which of the following about highly specialized trade media?
选项 A、They should be used only when direct selling is not economically feasible.
B、They can be used to exclude from the program audience people who are not part of the program target.
C、They are used only for very expensive products.
D、They are rarely used in the implementation of marketing programs for industrial products.
E、They are used only when direct selling has not reached the appropriate market segment.
答案B
解析 关于“高度专业化的商业媒介”，文中指出哪一点?这种说法出现于原文L33，是论证直销的可行性。A．只在直销行不通时才使用。说反了。B．正确。此种方式将项目观众中不属于项目目标的排除出去。这正是直销的特征。C．“expensive products”，原文未讨论商品价格。D．很少应用于工业产品营销计划。原文第二段讲到直销就举了工业产品(装瓶机)的例证。E．同A选项，和原文所说相反。
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