How businesses find, understand and win customers. Topics include customer data and segmentation, consumer behavior and persuasion, market research and hypothesis testing, and the marketing mix: product, price, place and promotion.
AP Exam weighting
20–30%
Suggested pacing (CED)
~34 class periods
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Consumer Behavior
Why and how consumers buy, what shapes purchasing patterns, and Cialdini's principles of influence.
Product: Development, Branding and the Life Cycle
The six stages of product development, MVPs and value propositions, branding and trademarks, and how marketing changes across the product life cycle.
Price: Strategies, Pricing Power and the Law
Value-based, competitive, cost-based and penetration pricing; what determines pricing power, including price elasticity; and pricing practices that are illegal.