Building a customer database is not recommended when the product is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase

Information provided by industry services is useful for which of the following?

A) sales management decisions such as defining territories and setting quotas B) advertising decisions such as allocating advertising budgets C) segmenting the market and designing custom products and services for important segments D) all of the above

What can the manager infer about the relationship between the square of the level of output and the average costs?

A) As the level of output increases, average costs decrease at an increasing rate. B) As the level of output increases, at first average costs decrease, then will start to increase. C) As the level of output increases, at first average costs increase, then will start to decrease. D) As the level of output increases, average costs increase at an increasing rate.