A general business vocabulary exercise covering the kind of English used in corporate reports, business news, and professional correspondence. Great for intermediate and advanced learners.
📚 Key vocabulary click-through rate (CTR) — the percentage of people who click on a link or advertisement after seeing it funnel — a model representing the stages a potential customer goes through, from awareness to purchase content marketing — a strategy focused on creating and distributing valuable content to attract and retain a defined audience KPI (key performance indicator) — a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a company is achieving key business objectives market share — the portion of total sales in a market captured by a particular company or product customer retention — a company's ability to keep its existing customers over a specified period of time product lifecycle — the progression of a product through introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages demographic — statistical data relating to a population, such as age, gender, income, and education level psychographic — characteristics relating to consumers' attitudes, interests, values, and lifestyle choices upselling — encouraging a customer to purchase a more expensive or upgraded version of the product they are considering
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Our organization is one of the main ____________________ in the initiative (meaning: a party with a direct interest in it).
Correct answer: stakeholders.
2. Ask someone from _____________________ to come fix your computer.
Correct answer: tech support — Tech support helps users solve computer and technology problems.
3. James and I don't really see _____________________ on this issue. (meaning: we don't really agree)
Correct answer: eye to eye — The fixed expression see eye to eye means to agree.
4. I'm sorry, he's _____________________ right now, can he call you back?
Correct answer: in a meeting.
5. ____________________, we should concentrate more on customer service. = In my opinion, we should do so.
Correct answer: The way I see things.
6. Paul, can we _____________________ your input on this?
Correct answer: get.
7. He makes _____________________.
Correct answer: an excellent point.
8. I understand. = I see _____________________.
Correct answer: what you mean.
9. I agree with you _____________________.
Correct answer: up to a point.
10. What are the _____________________ on this? = What do we do next?