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WorksheetsPromotion Unit Multiple Choice Test
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Any form of paid, non-personal mass communication that reaches an audience.
Directing
Advertising
Broadcasting
Targeting
Promotion of a product includes all of the following except:
Advertising a new product
Personal selling by using sales representatives
Offering coupons to encourage increased sales
Redesigning a product to give it more features and make it look more modern
Any activity that helps in the exposure or sale of the product is considered to be
Product Service Management
Promotion
Distribution
Pricing
Before deciding on the most appropriate advertising media, it is important to
Change the price of the product
Update the product
Establish the target audience for the product
Introduce an exclusive distribution strategy for the product
The “Got Milk” ad campaign would be an example of
Industrial Advertising
Communication Advertising
Institutional Advertising
Promotional Advertising
Advertising designed to increase sales. It introduces new products and businesses.
Institutional Advertising
Promotional Advertising
Mass Advertising
Communication Advertising
The means to convey advertising messages, such as broadcast, print, internet, outdoor, or specialty
Communications
Retailing
Industry
Media
Fastest growing type of advertising. It allows for targeting of customers and instant feedback.
Print Advertising
Outdoor Advertising
Internet/Digital Media Advertising
Broadcast Advertising
This form of media has a targeted audience, long life span, and a high pass along rate
Radio
Outdoor
Magazine
Direct mail
This media includes television and radio, meaning that signal is transmitted
Broadcast
Outdoor
Direct mail
This media includes magazines and newspapers; one of the oldest forms of advertising
Broadcast
Outdoor
Direct mail
This media includes billboards, messages on buildings or transportation, benches, etc
Broadcast
Direct mail
Outdoor
Has a short lead time for advertising, large circulation in a geographic area, but poor print quality
Transit advertising
Newspapers
Magazines
Outdoor advertising
Useful and inexpensive items given away with the business’ name printed on them.
Product sample
Guerilla marketing
Specialty media
Sales promotion
The amount of time an audience sees or hears an advertisement
Frequency
Lead time
Reach
Pulse rate time
The AIDA model is based around the philosophy that to create a successful promotional method you must have the audience’s
Attitude, Interest, Desire, and Action
Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action
Attention, Ideas, Desire, and Action
Attention, Ideas, Desire, and Attitude
When a sender converts a message into an idea that a receiver can understand
Encoding
Transcribing
Decoding
Transferring
Any distracting information in a message transmission
Clutter
Gutters
Noise
Distracters
A receiver’s response to a message
Verbal cues
Feedback
Non verbal cues
Encoding
Businesses receive positive feedback about their promotional efforts when
Consumers take action and buy products
Consumers ask a lot of questions
Consumers ignore advertisements
Consumers visit the businesses competitors
Any non-paid communication about a product, service, company, or cause.
Specialty advertising
Viral marketing
Personal selling
Publicity
The effort to influence the target market by generating positive publicity.
Specialty advertising
Personal selling
Public relations
Viral marketing
Any short term incentive, activity, or material that gives consumers a direct incentive to buy
Viral marketing
Guerilla marketing
Personal selling
Sales promotion
Email marketing would be considered an example of
Direct Marketing
Sales Promotion
Personal Selling
Public Relations
A carefully planned and well thought out promotional mix ensures that a business has multiple strategies in place for
Reaching customers
Making sales
Achieving both short and long term goals
All of the Above
A promotional strategy where businesses attempt to take their products to customers through means using common sales tactics such as setting up points of sale displays, negotiations to take products directly to showroom floors, and other visible means
Relational Marketing
Guerilla Marketing
Push Marketing
Pull Marketing
____________________attempts to get customers to seek out the product and can include methods like mass media promotions, word of mouth referrals, and advertised sales promotions.
Relational Marketing
Guerilla Marketing
Push Marketing
Pull Marketing
Effective promotion should
Inform
Persuade
Remind
All of the above
_____________ is the ultimate advertising medium for many businesses because it can communicate a message with sound, action, and color.
Radio
Magazines
Television
Direct mail
Which of the following does not make up part of the promotional mix
Advertising
Public relations
Distribution
Sales promotion
The _____________________ is the vehicle by which a communication message travels. Could be television, radio, billboards, magazine, newspaper, outdoor media, etc
Feedback
Message channel
Communication process
Encoding
To establish a solid media plan and select the correct advertising mediums, advertisers should ask themselves which question?
Can the chosen medium present the product and the appropriate business image?
Can the desired customers be targeted with the medium?
Will the chosen medium get the desired response rate?
Advertisers should ask all of the above questions to establish a solid media plan.
A single exposure to an advertising message is called a/an
Reach
Impression
Audience
Frequency
Which of the following situations is an example of a public relations activity?
Evan coordinates an upcoming sales promotion with a company’s purchasing manager
Jana prepares a press release about her firm’s new licensing agreement with a large company
Colleen telephones a prospective customer to try to schedule a product demonstration
Eli reviews a report to determine which clients have overdue payments due on their accounts
Promotion is ultimately a
Communication Process
Sales Process
Revenue generating process
Research Process
What is the key to a great promotional campaign that utilizes the promotional mix effectively?
Providing changing promotional messages depending on consumer views
Creating advertisements that are fun and cool
Making sure that all elements of the promotional mix focus on a similar message
Making sure that personal selling and sales promotion don’t overpower advertising and public relations
Which of these best describes the objective of sales promotion?
To generate a short term sales increase
To build long term brand loyalty
To reduce the amount of inventory on hand
To encourage customers to choose one retailer over another
The number of homes or people exposed to an advertisement
Reach
Impression
Audience
Frequency
The ultimate goal of promotion is for
A consumer to see an advertisement
A consumer to purchase a company’s product or service
A consumer to tell others about a company’s product or service
To be cost effective for the company
One of the aims of promotion is to
Lower the price of the product
Update the product
Inform consumers about the product
Lower the costs of producing the product
Two advantages that magazine advertising have over newspaper advertising are longer life spans and higher print quality.
True
False
The main goal of promotion is to generate high quality research that can be used towards marketing efforts.
True
False
The main difference between advertising and publicity is that advertising is communication a business pays for and public relations is a non-paid form of communication.
True
False
Public relations is generally considered more objective and more believable than advertising.
True
False
Publicity is easy to control, and it is always positive.
True
False
Sales promotion activities focus on generating long-term sales.
True
False
Sales promotion results are measurable, particularly with contests, coupons, and sweepstakes.
True
False
Social media is a great form of media to use when launching promotion campaigns. You just want to mindful of your image, content, and frequency when posting.
True
False
Promotion is a marketing mix element.
True
False
The four elements that make up the promotional mix are advertising, public relations, sales promotion, and personal selling
True
False
