CMC Marketing Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making 3

Question 1

Which analytics concept refers to the last channel a customer interacted with before converting receiving 100% of the conversion credit?

Accepted Answer

Last-touch attribution

Answer

Last-touch attribution assigns all conversion credit to the final touchpoint before the conversion event, ignoring all earlier interactions.

Question 2

A consultant is analyzing the relationship between advertising spend (X) and revenue (Y). The R² value is 0.82. What does this mean?

Accepted Answer

82% of the variation in revenue is explained by advertising spend

Answer

R² (coefficient of determination) represents the proportion of variance in the dependent variable (Y/revenue) that is explained by the independent variable(s) in the model.

Question 3

A marketing consultant wants to identify the optimal price point that maximizes revenue using historical transaction data. Which analytical approach is most suitable?

Accepted Answer

Price elasticity modeling

Answer

Price elasticity modeling estimates how demand changes in response to price changes, enabling consultants to identify the price point that maximizes total revenue.

Question 4

Which of the following represents a 'vanity metric' that looks impressive but provides little actionable insight for marketing decisions?

Accepted Answer

Total social media followers

Answer

Total follower count is a vanity metric because a large audience that doesn't engage or convert generates no business value and cannot be directly actioned.

Question 5

In customer segmentation, which method groups customers by grouping them based on similarities in behavior or characteristics without predefined categories?

Accepted Answer

Unsupervised clustering (e.g., k-means)

Answer

Unsupervised clustering algorithms like k-means discover natural groupings in data without labeled training examples or predefined segment definitions.

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CMC Marketing Analytics & Data-Driven Decision Making 3