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Sales and marketing

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Key learning points

  1. When considering how much to spend on an ad campaign, you need to determine its worth
  2. Google analytics can help with analysing the impact of an ad campaign

Keywords

  • Profit - Profit is a business’ financial gain; the difference between the revenue and the cost.

Common misconception

Reducing the cost to increase sales is always the best option.

Although this may seem a good idea, increasing the number of units sold means increasing the amount made and therefore the cost to the business. Therefore the situation needs to be carefully considered.


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Pupils might like to use spreadsheet software to write formulas that will calculate the effect on revenue, cost and profit quickly so that they can investigate when it is better for the business and when it is not.
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6 Questions

Q1.
A cookie recipe calls for 240 g of flour to make 24 cookies. If you want to make 36 cookies, how much flour do you need?
Correct Answer: 360 g
Q2.
If 5 apples cost £2.50, how much would 8 apples cost?
Correct Answer: £4, £4.00
Q3.
If it takes 15 minutes to sew 6 buttons onto a shirt, how long will it take to sew 10 buttons onto a different shirt, assuming the same sewing speed?
Correct Answer: 25 mins, 25 minutes
Q4.
If it takes 4 workers to complete a job in 8 hours, how long will it take 8 workers to complete the same job, assuming they work at the same rate?
Correct Answer: 4 hours
Q5.
If it takes 3 people to paint a house in 12 hours, how long will it take 9 people to paint the same house, assuming they work at the same rate?
Correct Answer: 4 hours
Q6.
If a car travels 100 miles at a speed of 50 miles per hour, how much longer will it take to travel the same distance at a speed of 40 miles per hour?
Correct Answer: 30 mins, 30 minutes

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6 Questions

Q1.
is a business’ financial gain; the difference between the revenue and the cost.
Correct Answer: Profit
Q2.
A simple formula for total annual profit is: total − total costs = yearly profit
Correct Answer: revenue
Q3.
61% of new visitors to a website were because of advertising on Instagram. If there were 6000 new visitors in total, how many were because of Instagram?
Correct Answer: 3660
Q4.
28% of new visitors to a website were because of advertising on YouTube. If there were 6000 new visitors in total, how many were because of YouTube?
Correct Answer: 1680
Q5.
11% of new visitors to a website were because of advertising on Facebook. If there were 6000 new visitors in total, how many were because of Facebook?
Correct Answer: 660
Q6.
Aisha and Sam work for a business that sells 11 000 units p.a. at a price of £65 and the cost of producing, packaging and distributing each unit is £42 Calculate their profit.
£715 000
£462 000
Correct answer: £253 000