An exercise covering marketing vocabulary for intermediate and advanced ESL learners. The terms here span brand, digital, and performance marketing — all areas of modern marketing practice.
📚 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. To ______________ sales = To increase sales
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2. We're trying to ______________ ( = attract) new clients from Asia.
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3. The written part of an advertisement is what's known as "marketing ______________".
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4. We had to cut our marketing budget in ______________ to recessionary concerns. ( = because of recessionary concerns)
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5. P1: How's the new campaign going? P2: Well, the ______________ is pretty encouraging. Sales have increased by 5% in the first month.
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6. His top-notch marketing skills helped ______________ the way to ( = lead to/ ensure) this brand's success.
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7. We have to be a little more aggressive in our marketing ______________. = We have to spend more money on marketing.
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8. I'd think ______________ ( = think about it carefully) before entering that market.
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9. A ______________ refers to the elimination of competing businesses or products in a particular field.
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10. We have to engage in marketing activities that are closer to the ______________. ( = where people buy the product/s)
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