A broad marketing vocabulary exercise for ESL learners. The expressions covered here are drawn from real marketing contexts — from strategy documents and briefs to post-campaign reviews.
📚 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. When marketing specialists speak about a ______________, they are referring to a decline in an economic cycle.
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2. Horizontal marketing refers to when two companies market their products ______________. ( = together)
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3. When marketers speak about "engaging" an industry, they are referring to creating an interest or ______________ within the industry about a product, service, etc.
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4. We've been trying to create a new metric ( = method/system) of ad ______________.
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5. On the internet, consumers can take part in a kind of ______________ marketing, which means that not only does a company market to the consumers, the consumers themselves can create content (through an application on a website, etc.)
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6. The phenomenon in the previous question is commonly referred to as "consumer-______________ media."
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7. To put something "______________" = To focus on the importance of something, to devote most of one's attention to something
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8. Unfortunately, this analysis doesn't really show the ______________. ( = all the facts, what's really going on)
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9. If something is an industry-______________ standard, it means that it is used/adhered to by most people in the industry.
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10. The ______________ new iPhone was launched last year.
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