Build your marketing English vocabulary with this exercise. Understanding these terms will help you participate confidently in marketing meetings, read industry publications, and follow campaign discussions.
🔑 Did you know? Marketing edition "Funnel" is one of marketing's most used words: the marketing funnel represents the journey from awareness to purchase. "Top of funnel" (TOFU) means reaching new audiences; "bottom of funnel" (BOFU) means converting people ready to buy. These acronyms appear constantly in marketing job descriptions. Organic vs. paid reach — organic reach is the audience you earn without paying (through SEO, social shares, word of mouth); paid reach is bought through advertising. "Growing organically" has become a broader business expression meaning growth without external investment. "Stickiness" in marketing means how well a product or piece of content keeps users engaged and coming back. "What makes this app sticky?" is a common question in product and marketing meetings.
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. Due to a series of failed initiatives, we seem to have lost our competitive ______________.
Correct answer: edge.
2. A successful marketer can identify which intangible attributes increase consumers' ____________________ to pay a premium price.
Correct answer: willingness.
3. The ______________ (meaning: percentage/rate) of brand-loyal consumers is about 35%.
Correct answer: proportion.
4. Price-______________ consumers are the ones for whom price is the determining factor as to whether or not to buy something.
Correct answer: sensitive.
5. Measuring and managing brand value is a major ____________________ for marketers.
Correct answer: issue.
6. If two products are ______________, this means they are perceived to be the same.
Correct answer: undifferentiated.
7. Generally speaking, new products that ______________ (meaning: offer) unique benefits to the customer have a higher commercial success rate.
Correct answer: deliver.
8. Tangible brand attributes are ____________________ characteristics that customers can observe directly.
Correct answer: real, observable.
9. ______________ visual cues = Visual cues that are always of a similar nature
Correct answer: Consistent.
10. A set of products that a consumer considers for purchase is referred to as their "consideration ______________."