Round out your marketing vocabulary with this exercise. The expressions covered here reflect the language of marketing performance, metrics, and the measurement of campaign effectiveness.
📚 Key vocabulary brand equity — the commercial value derived from consumer perception of a brand name rather than the product itself market segmentation — dividing a broad market into subgroups of consumers with common needs or characteristics conversion rate — the percentage of website visitors or leads who complete a desired action, such as making a purchase customer acquisition cost (CAC) — the total cost of winning a new customer, including marketing and sales expenses return on investment (ROI) — a measure of the profitability of an investment, calculated as net profit divided by cost lead generation — the process of attracting and capturing interest from potential customers for a business's products or services value proposition — a clear statement explaining how a product solves a customer problem and why it is better than alternatives positioning — the process of establishing how a brand or product occupies a distinct place in the minds of target customers B2B (business-to-business) — commercial transactions conducted between two businesses, rather than between a business and a consumer B2C (business-to-consumer) — commercial transactions where a business sells products or services directly to individual consumers
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. We have to develop a better online ______________. We're not getting as many hits as we used to.
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2. Which audience ______________ are you aiming for? Teenagers?
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3. ______________ placement refers to having a brand (Coke, Nike, etc.) appear during a movie, show, etc. Companies usually pay a lot of money to have their products appear this way.
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4. The ______________ of products into the plot of a movie is critical to many companies' marketing strategy.
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5. "Brand entertainment" is a fairly new concept that involves marketing a brand within the ______________ of "original" programming. In other words, the advertisements become part of a program.
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6. In some ways, "brand entertainment" is more ________________ ( = less obvious) than traditional advertising, which is why some people see it as being more subversive.
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7. If something is _____________, it is present everywhere.
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8. _____________ will be spending billions of dollars on Olympics-related advertising.
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9. The goal here is to start new relationships, and to ______________ ( = strengthen) existing ones.
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10. We need to do a better job at ______________ what the brand is about.
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