1.Why is it challenging to evaluate marketing options?
1 point
Chief marketing officers and chief financial officers don’t see things the same way.
Marketing decisions are usually made in isolation
Marketing managers often have different opinions about the impact of alternative marketing options.
2.Which of the following factors is required to establish causality?
1 point
There is no other factor that could be the cause of the increase in sales.
An increase in brand awareness
An increase in advertising
A decrease in price
3.If you’re implementing a before-after experiment, which of the following would you do last?
1 point
Calculate sales lift, adjusting for any differences between the test and control group.
Calculate sales in both the test and control group given existing advertising.
Select 1000 customers to serve as your test and control groups.
Show the test group the new advertising and the control group the old advertising.
4.In an advertising experiment using before-after design, 3000 customers are randomly assigned to 3 groups. All groups are exposed to the existing advertisement for round 1 of the experiment. In round 2, new advertisements are shown to groups 2 and 3, while group 1 continues to see the old ads.
Control Group 1
Test Group 2
Test Group 3
Round 1–old ad
650
695
680
Round 2–Group 1, old ad, Groups 2 and 3, new ad
630
660
740
What is the sales lift (in units) for the new ad shown to group 2?
1 point
30
-35
35
-15
5.What is the manufacturer contribution margin ($)?
Retail price
$40
Retail margin
35%
Manufacturer contribution margin
40%
1 point
$26
$14
$5.60
$10.40
6.A manufacturer is considering increasing advertising spending by $4.5 million.
Retail price
$50
Retail margin
40%
Manufacturer contribution margin
60%
What is the break even number of units the manufacturer must sell to cover the increase in advertising?
1 point
210,000
150,000
250,000
1,080,000
7.Calculate net lift given the following information:
1 point
109.50%
188.70%
13.90%
228.20%
8.Given the data below, calculate break even units.
1 point
1.39
10,000
3.3
7,215
9.Snacker Crackers is studying the impact of an advertising campaign for their multigrain product line. Without the ad campaign, their sales in October were 80,000 boxes. With the ad campaign, sales fell to 70,000 boxes in November. Historically, October represents 15% of their annual sales and November represents 5%.
What is the lift for their advertising campaign?
1 point
263%
-13%
88%
163%
10.Burpease has developed a new oral medication to relieve upset stomach symptoms. Their test market was run during August and September in New York.
Test market units sold
1000
Test % of the population
10%
Retailer % of national sales
30%
August/Sept % of annual sales
15%
Fourth quarter % of sales
35%
What are the projected unit sales for the 4th quarter, assuming securing 100% distribution nationally?
1 point
33,333
23,333
222,222
77,778
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