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The Promotional Mix in Sports & Entertainment

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 51mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This is any communication a business or organization uses to inform, persuade, or remind customers about its products.

a)

Promotion

b)

Advertising

2.

This is the COMBINATION of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, and public relations that is used to communicate the business’s message.

a)

Industrial Mix

b)

Promotional Mix

3.

Advertising is a recent phenomenon and has no historical roots.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Advertising has been around since ancient times.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Hundreds of years ago these individuals might stand at a busy street corner and shout about the products or services available from their sponsors.

a)

town advertiser

b)

town crier

6.

Joannes Guttenberg invented this around 1440 which moved society toward mass communication, increased literacy, and the creation of printed advertising.

a)

movable type

b)

the alphabet

7.

This is any paid form of non-personal promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor.

a)

Advertising

b)

Personal Selling

8.

This type of promotion requires contact between a representative of the business and a potential customer.

a)

Personal Selling

b)

Sales Promotion

9.

This person is the legal representative of an athlete or celebrity – they are salespeople!

a)

Agents

b)

Merchants

10.

These are activities that are designed to create a positive feeling toward the team, athlete, or celebrity.

a)

Public Relations

b)

Personal Selling

11.

This is the term used to describe the positive feeling that fans and potential customers have toward the sports team, athlete, or celebrity.

a)

Empathy

b)

Goodwill

12.

An expensive billboard along a busy highway, which promotes the newest Jurassic World movie, is an example of:

a)

Sales Promotion

b)

Advertising

13.

Sports teams and celebrities will often sponsor charity events that help worthy causes because:

a)

These activities help deserving people and the community at large.

b)

Helping other people and supporting charity organizations is the right thing to do.

c)

These activities will help build goodwill toward the team, athlete, or celebrity.

d)

All of these are reasons why teams and celebrities sponsor charity events.

14.

This is any non-paid mention of the product, team, athlete, celebrity, or cause in the media.

a)

publicity

b)

peddling

15.

Publicity is typically free.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Publicity can be positive or negative.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Publicity is easily controlled.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

This is a public relations specialist, who is responsible for maintaining relations with the general public and the news media.

a)

Publicisit

b)

Promoter

19.

This is a prewritten story about a team, a player, or celebrity that is sent to the various media.

a)

Press Conference

b)

Press Release

20.

Lady Gaga held one of these to announce that she would be performing during the Super Bowl halftime show.

a)

Press Conference

b)

Marketing Meeting

21.

This is any activity or material that offers consumers a direct and immediate incentive to buy a product or service.

a)

Personal Selling

b)

Sales Promotion

22.

No performer has ever been paid to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. Why are celebrities willing to perform for free during the Super Bowl halftime show?

a)

Performing during the Super Bowl is an important public relations opportunity.

b)

Over 100 million viewers are expected to watch the Super Bowl each year.

c)

A Super Bowl performance will stimulate sales of the performer’s music.

d)

All of these are reasons why celebrities want to perform during the Super Bowl.

23.

This is the most common example of sales promotion.

a)

Billboards

b)

Coupons

24.

This is a sales promotion activity that requires the customer to demonstrate a skill.

a)

Sweepstakes

b)

Contest

25.

This sales promotion activity is a game of chance and prizes are awarded randomly.

a)

Sweepstakes

b)

Contest

26.

This sales promotion activity consists of giving away free promotional items to customers as a reminder about the business. These are inexpensive items like mini-footballs, water bottles, t-shirts, and key chains.

a)

Premiums

b)

Trade Goods

27.

This event allows businesses to exhibit their products and services to a specific industry. Several Comic Cons are held each year in the United States and are considered to be:

a)

Trade Shows

b)

Press Conferences

28.

This is a promotional activity that allows fans to participate in the activity rather than simply observe things. Blizzard Entertainment does this annually for its fans.

a)

Event Marketing

b)

Industrial Marketing

29.

This display consists of promotional material used closely with the merchandise it is promoting. It is often located where the purchase decision is made.

a)

Point-of-Purchase Display

b)

Marketing Point Display

30.

This occurs when an unknown person or event is propelled into the spotlight by the fans.

a)

Grassroots Effort

b)

Event Marketing Effort

31.

This is a promotion where a few online mentions turn into a real buzz about a movie, celebrity, or player

a)

Viral Campaign

b)

Event Campaign

32.

This is the first step in developing a promotional strategy. Before you begin, you should:

a)

decide on specific, measurable goals for the promotional campaign.

b)

decide how much money your business can afford to spend on promotion.

33.

The third step in developing an effective promotional strategy is to develop a promotional theme. This is the name given to the theme of the promotional strategy.

a)

Headline

b)

Tagline

34.

The fifth step in the development of advertising is to create the message. This is the most important element in determining the success of advertising:

a)

Schedule

b)

Creativity

35.

The sixth step in developing advertising is to develop an advertising schedule. This is the number of times the target customer is exposed to the media:

a)

Reach

b)

Frequency

36.

The seventh and last step in developing advertising is to ________________ the effectiveness of the advertising.

a)

investigate

b)

measure

37.

This is the saying that conveys the main meaning of the promotional message.

a)

Slogan

b)

Copy

38.

This is the number of people in the target market expected to receive the message through the chosen media.

a)

Reach

b)

Frequency

39.

This type of promotion is targeted at the final user of the good or service.

a)

consumer promotion

b)

business promotion

40.

This type of promotion includes promotional efforts that are directed other businesses.

a)

consumer promotion

b)

business promotion

41.

Most business-to-business promotions are done with:

a)

personal selling

b)

coupons

42.

This market includes companies and organizations that purchase products for the operation of the business or for the completion of a business activity.

a)

Consumer Market

b)

Business Market

43.

This market includes companies and organizations that purchase products for the operation of the business or for the completion of a business activity.

a)

Consumer Market

b)

Business Market

44.

This salesperson will negotiate salary contracts and endorsement deals on behalf of the athlete or celebrity.

a)

The Sports Agent

b)

The Industrial Agent

45.

Promotion can be used to sell products and enhance the public image of a business or organization.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

Advertising can take almost any form, appear in almost any media, and reach millions of people.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

Any activity used to communicate with customers in an attempt to inform, persuade, or remind them about the business’s products or services comes under the umbrella of promotion

a)

True

b)

False

48.

Writing on stone tablets, walls, and papyrus from ancient Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, and Greece all carried advertising messages.

a)

True

b)

Flase

49.

Advertising is one-way communication with customers & potential customers using mass media.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

Some sources estimate that the average person is exposed to about 250 advertising messages per day.

a)

True

b)

False