Marketing Basics Jeopardy
The four Ps, branding, and marketing metrics reworked as a quiz show — a free board for training days where contestants buzz in on their own phones.
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The Four Ps
- $200
This first "P" refers to the actual good or service a company offers to meet a customer need.
What is product?
- $400
This "P" refers to the amount a customer must pay to acquire a product, often set using cost, competition, and perceived value.
What is price?
- $600
This "P" refers to where and how a product becomes available to customers, including distribution channels and physical or online locations.
What is place?
- $800
This "P" covers all the ways a company communicates with customers about a product, including advertising, PR, and sales promotions.
What is promotion?
- $1,000
This later addition to the original marketing mix, sometimes labeled a fifth "P," refers to the staff who deliver a service and interact directly with customers.
What is people?
Branding Basics
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This visual symbol, such as a swoosh or golden arches, identifies a company or product at a glance.
What is a logo?
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This short, memorable phrase, like "Just Do It," is closely associated with a brand and used across its advertising.
What is a tagline?
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This term describes the set of associations, feelings, and expectations a customer holds in their mind about a particular brand.
What is brand image?
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This document sets rules for a brand's logo usage, color palette, typography, and tone of voice to keep its look consistent everywhere.
What are brand guidelines?
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This marketing concept measures the added commercial value a recognized brand name carries beyond the functional worth of the underlying product.
What is brand equity?
Digital and Social
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This paid advertising model charges an advertiser only when a user actually clicks their ad, rather than for every time it is shown.
What is pay-per-click?
- $400
This marketing practice optimizes a website's content and structure to help it rank higher in unpaid search engine results.
What is search engine optimization?
- $600
This marketing approach uses regular content, like blog posts and videos, to attract and engage an audience without directly advertising a product.
What is content marketing?
- $800
This marketing tactic pays a popular social media user to promote a product to their own established following.
What is influencer marketing?
- $1,000
This periodic email, sent to a list of subscribers with updates, offers, or curated content, remains one of the highest-return digital marketing channels.
What is an email newsletter?
Metrics and KPIs
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This metric measures the percentage of people who see an ad or link and actually click on it.
What is click-through rate?
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This metric measures how much money a company spends, on average, to acquire a single new customer.
What is customer acquisition cost?
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This metric compares the revenue generated by a campaign to the amount spent running it, commonly expressed as a ratio.
What is return on investment?
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This metric measures the percentage of website visitors who complete a desired action, such as making a purchase or filling out a form.
What is conversion rate?
- $1,000
This metric measures the percentage of visitors who leave a website after viewing only a single page, without any further interaction.
What is bounce rate?
Advertising History
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This street in Manhattan lent its name to the American advertising industry for most of the twentieth century.
What is Madison Avenue?
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This 1984 television commercial, directed by Ridley Scott and aired during the Super Bowl, introduced the Macintosh computer.
What is "1984"?
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This slogan, used by De Beers starting in 1947, helped popularize the tradition of the diamond engagement ring.
What is "A Diamond Is Forever"?
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This advertising medium, dominant through much of the twentieth century, delivers audio-only ads to listeners over the airwaves.
What is radio?
- $1,000
This billboard-and-poster advertising format, common along highways since the early twentieth century, delivers a brief message to viewers passing by at speed.
What is outdoor advertising?
Know Your Audience
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This research practice divides a broad market into smaller groups based on shared traits like age, income, or location.
What is market segmentation?
- $400
This semi-fictional profile represents a company's ideal customer, built from research into demographics, goals, and pain points.
What is a buyer persona?
- $600
This research method gathers a small group of people to discuss their opinions and reactions to a product or ad in a guided conversation.
What is a focus group?
- $800
This term describes dividing an audience by psychological traits like values, interests, and lifestyle, rather than by simple demographics.
What is psychographic segmentation?
- $1,000
This figure, often abbreviated TAM, estimates the total possible revenue available if a company captured every bit of demand for its product in a given market.
What is total addressable market?
Final Jeopardy — Marketing Frameworks
Product, price, place, and promotion make up this classic framework, given its alliterative name by E. Jerome McCarthy in 1960.
What are the four Ps of marketing?
How to run this board
Marketing looks simple from the outside, which is exactly why the fundamentals are worth testing. This board spans the four Ps, branding basics, digital and social channels, common metrics, a little advertising history, and audience research.
It suits two very different rooms: junior marketers in structured training, and non-marketing colleagues who want to understand what the marketing team actually does.
For the second group, slow the pace and let your marketers explain the why behind each answer — the explanations are the training.
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