The marketing mix refers to
A. the specific ratio within a budget that divides resources between advertising, sales promotion, and personal selling.
B. the allocation of resources within a firm towards individual marketing programs.
C. the environmental forces - social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory - that impact the marketing decisions for a particular product at any given time.
D. the selection of product benefits and attributes that are to be added to or subtracted from a given product to create variations within a product line.
E. the marketing manager's controllable factors - product, price, promotion, and place - that can be used to solve a marketing problem.
Answer: E
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