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marketing reserach
the application of the scientific method in searching for the truth about marketing phenomena. These activities include defining marketing opportunities and problems, generating and evaluating marketing ideas, monitoring performance, and understanding the marketing process.
applied marketing reserach
conducted to address a specific marketing decision for a specific firm or organization
Basic marketing research
conducted without specific decision in mind, and it usually does not address the needs of s specific organization
the scientific method
the way researchers go about using knowledge and evidence to reach objective conclusions about the real world.
product-oriented
describes a firm that prioritizes decision making in a way that emphasizes technical superiority in the product
production oriented
the firm prioritizes efficiency and effectiveness of the production processes in making decisions
marketing concept
a central idea in modern marketing thinking that focuses more on how the firm provides value to customers than on the physical product or production process.
marketing orientation
the corporate culture existing for firms adopting the marketing concept. it emphasizes customer orientation, long term profitability over short term profits, and a cross-functional perspective
customer oriented
meaning that all firms decisions are made with a conscious awareness of their effect on the consumer
relationship marketing
communicates the idea that a major goal of marketing is to build long term relationships with the customers contributing to their success
stages of developing and implementing a marketing strategy
identifying and evaluating marketing opportunities

analyzing market segments and selecting target markets

planning and implementing a marketing mix

analyzing firm performance
identifying and evaluating opportunities
marketing research can perform its monitoring competitive environments for signals indicating a business opportunity

market opportunities may be evaluated using many performance criteria. The performance criterion of market demand typically is estimated using marketing research techniques
analyzing and selecting target markets
geo-demographics- information describing the demographic profile of consumers in a particular geographic region

once the company knows the geo-demographics of a market segment, it can effectively communicate with those customers by choosing media that reach that particular profile
planning and implementing a marketing mix
product research

pricing research

distribution research

promotion research

the integrated marketing mix
product research
takes many forms and includes studies designed to evaluate and develop new products to learn how to adapt existing product lines
pricing research
pricing involves finding the amount of monetary sacrifice that best represents the value customers percieve in a product after considering various marketing constraints.
distribution research
marketing channel- a network of interdependent institutions that perform the logistics necessary for consumption to occur.

supply chain is sometimes used to refer to a channel of distribution
promotion research
promotion is the communication function of the firm responsible for informing and persuading buyers.

promotion research investigates the effectiveness of advertising, premiums, coupons, sampling, discounts, public relations, and other sales promotions
the integrated marketing mix
integrated marketing communication is adopted, meaning all promotional efforts should be coordinated to communicate a consistent image.

integrated marketing mix means that research studies often investigate effects of various combinations of marketing mix elements on important outcomes like sales and image
analyzing marketing performance
total value management- attempts to manage the entire process by which a consumer recieves benefits from a company

performance-monitoring research- refers to research that regularly, sometime routinely, provides feedback for evaluation and control of marketing activity.

marketing metrics refers to quantitative ways of monitoring and measuring marketing performance
determination of the need for marketing research depends on:
time constraints

availability of data

nature of the decision

benefits versus costs
time contraints
systematic research takes time. in many instances management believes that a decision must be made immediately.
availability of data
if the date cannot be obtained, or it cannot be obtained in a timely fashion, research project should not be conducted
nature of the decision
the value of marketing reserach will open on the nature of the managerial decision to be made.

the research cost of determining the proper wording to use in the updated manual is likely to be too high for sure a minor decision.
benefits vs. costs
will the payoff ROR be worth the investment?

will the info gained by marketing research improve the quality of the marketing decision enough to warrant the expidenture?

is the proposed research expenditure the best use of available funds?
discuss how marketing research helps the firm develop and implement strategy
marketing reserach is a means of implementing hte marketing concept, the most central idea in marketing. hte marketing concepts says that a firm must be oriented both toward consumer satisfaction and toward long-run profitablitiy. organizations need to focus both on creating and on keeping customers. marketing reserach can help implement the marketing concept by identifying consumers problems and needs, improving efficiency, and evaluating the effectiveness of marketing strategies and tactics
identify the difference between applied and basic research
applied marketing research seeks to faciliate managerial deicison making. Basic or pure research seeks to increase knowledge of theories and concepts.
describe how technology and internationalization are affecting the way research is conducted and used.
-easier and better
-places greater emphasis on research that can assess the degree to which research tools can be applied and interpreted the same way in diff cultures
data
facts or recorded measures of certain phenomena
information
data formatted to support decision making or define the relationship between two facts
market intelligence
the subset of data and information that actually has some explanatory power enabling effective decisions to be made.

data > information > intelligence
characteristics of useful data
relevance

quality

timeliness

completeness
relevance
the characteristics of data reflecting how pertinent these particular facts are to the situation at hand.
quality
the degree to which data represent the true situation.

high quality data are accurate, valid and reliable
timeliness
data are current enough to still be relevant
completeness
refers to having the right amount of information.
global information systems
an organized collection of computer hardware, software, data, and personnel designed to capture, store, updated, manipulate, analyze and immediately display information about worldwide business activities.
radio frequency identification (RFID)
a new technology that places a tiny chip, which can be woven onto a fabric, onto virtually any product, allowing it to be tracked anywhere in the world.

provides great insight into the different distribution channels around the world.
decision support system
a system that helps decision makers confront problems through direct interaction with computerized databases and analytical software progams.
customer relationship management
part of a DSS (decision support system) that addresses exchanges between the firm and its customers.

brings together information about customers, including sales data, market trends, marketing promotions and the way consumers repsond to them.
database
a collection of raw data arranged logically and organized in a form that can be stored and processed by a computer.
data warehousing
a process allowing important day-to-day operational data to be stored and organized for simplified access.

data warehouse- the mulitiered computer storehouse of current and historical data.
five major sources of data input
internal records

proprietary marketing research

salesperson input

behavioral tracking

outside vendors/external distributors
internal records
provides considerable data that may become useful information for marketing managers.

establishes orderly procedures to ensure that data about costs, shipments, inventory, sales, and other aspects of regular operations are routinely collected and entered into the computer.
proprietary marketing research
the gathering of new data to investigate specific problems
salesperson input
they work in firms' external environments, so they commonly provide essential marketing data.

reports frequently alert managers to changes in competitors' prices and new product offerings.
behavioral tracking
GPS allows management to track the whereabouts of delivery personnel at all times

technology allows firms to track actual customer behavior, the Internet

scanner data refers to the accumlated records resulting from point of sale data recordings. each time products are scanned at a checkout counter, the information can be stored.
outside vendors/external distributors
public librarys, ex

media representatives often provide useful demographic and lifestyle data about their audiences

companies called data specialists record and store certain marketing information. computer technology has changed the ways...
data wholesalers
put together consortia of data sources into packages that are offered to municipal, corporate, and university libraries for a fee.
types of databases
statistical

financial

video
statistical database
contain numercial data for market analysis and forecasting.

often demographic, sales, and other relevant marketing variables are recorded by geographical area.

one source of this is scanner data
weakness --> not all points of sale have scanner technology (vending machines, ex)
financial database
competitors and customers financial data, such as income statements and balance sheets, may interest managers.

easy to access
video database
enables franchisers and their advertising agencies to create local advertising without filming the same types of scenes already archived.
electronic data interchange
system that integrates one company's computer system directly with another company's system. Much of the input to a company's decision support system may come through networks from others companies computers
internet
a worldwide network of computers that allows users access to information from distant sources
host
where the content for a particular website physically resides and is accesed.
WWW
a portion of the internet that is a system of computer servers that organize information into documents called web pages
content providers
parties that furnish information on the world wide web
uniform resource location (URL)
a website address that web browsers recognize
search engine
a computerized directory that allows anyone to search the WWW for information using a keywoard search
keyword search
takes place as the search engine searches through millions of web pages for documents containing the keywords
interactive medium
a medium, such as the Internet, that a person can use to communicate with and interact with other users
environmental scanning
entails all information gathering designed to detect changes in the external operating environment of the firm
pull technology
consumers request informatoin from a web page and the browser then determines a response; the consumer is essentially asking for the data
push technology
sends data to a users computer without a request being made; software is used to guess what information might be interesting to consumers based on the pattern on responses.
smart agent software
capable of learning an Internets users preferences and automatically searching out information and distributing the information to a users computer
cookies
computer terminology, are small computer files that record a users web usage history
intranet
a company's private data network that uses Internet standards and technology. the info on an intranet- data, graphics, video and voice- are available only inside the organization or to those individuals whom the organizations deems as appropriate participants
types of marketing research
exploratory research

descriptive research

causal research
exploratory research
conducted to clarify ambiguous situations or to discover ideas that may be potential business opportunities.

particularly useful in new product development
descriptive research
describes characteristics of objects, people, groups, organizations, or environements.

addresses: who, what, when, where and how

unlike exploratory research, descriptive studies are conducted with a considerable understanding of the situation being studied.
diagnostic analysis
seeks to diagnose reasons for market outcomes and focuses specifically on the beliefs and feelings consumers have about and toward the competing products

(desciptive research)
causal research
allows causal inferences to be made. That is, seeks to identify cause-and-effect relationships. When something causes an effect, it means it bring sit about or makes it happen. the effect is the outcome
casual inference

(causal research)
a conclusion that when one thing happens, another specific thing will follow
3 critical pieces of causal evidence

(causal research)
temporal sequence

concomitant variation

nonspurious association
temporal sequence
deals with the time order of events. the cause must occur before the effect
concomitant variation
occurs when two events "covary", meaning they vary systematically.
nonspurious association
any covariation between a cause and an effect is true and not simple due to some other variable.
stages in the research process
defining the research objectives

planning the research design

planning a sample

collecting the data

analyzing the data

formulating the conclusions and preparing the report
defining the research objectives
research objectives are the goals to be achieved by conducting research..

deliverables are the objectives to a research client

problem...discovery...confirmation

using exploratory research (previous research, pilot studies)
stating research objectives
identification of key variables
theory
hypothesis
literature review

(exploratory reserach)
a directed search of published works, including periodicals and books, that discusses theory and presents empirical results relevant to the topic at hand.
pilot studies
a small-scale research project that collects data from respondents simliar to those to be used in the full study
focus group
a small group discussion about some reserach topic led by a moderator who guides discussion among the participtants
variable
anything that varies or changes in value
categorical variable
a varaible that indicates membership in some group
classificatory variable
another term for a categorical variable because it classifies units in some group
continous variable
variable that can take on a range of values that correspond to some quantitative amount
dependent variable
a process outcome or a variable that is predicted and explained by other variables
independent variable
a variable that is expected to influence the dependent variable in some way
theory
a formal, logical explanation of some events that includes predicitions of how things relate to one another
empircal testing
means that something has been examined against reality using data. when the data are consistent with a hypothesis, we say the hypothesis is supported.
planning the research design
research design is a master plan that specifies the methods and procedures for the collecting and analyzing the needed information
selection of the basic research method
surveys

experiments

secondary data

observation
sampling data
involves any procedure that draws conclusions based on measurements of a portion of the population.

issues:
who is to be sampled?
what is the size?
how do you select sampling units?>
collecting data
gathering or collecting data

unobtrusive method of data gathering is one in which the subjects do not have to be disturbed for data to be collected
analyzing the data
editing and coding:
answers are collected and processed into the computer at the same time, eliminating intermediate steps that could introduce errors

data analysis is the application of reasoning to understand the data that have been gathered.
drawing conlusions and preparing a report
self explanatory.
outside agency
an independent research firm contracted by the company that actually will benefit from the research
in-house research
research performed by employees of the company that will benefit from the research
advantages of outside agency
provide a fresh perspective

can be more objective

may have special expertise
advantages of in-house research
if the project needs to be completed quickly

if research requires close collaboration w/ employees

economy- cheap

secrecy
marketing research jobs
director of marketing research

research analyst

research assistants

manager of decision support systems

forecast analyst
director of marketing research
provides leadership in reserach efforts and integrates all staff-level research activities
research analyst
a person responsible for client contact, project design, preparation of proposals, selection of research suppliers, and supervision of data collection, analysis, and reporting activities
research assistants
research employees who provide technical assistance with questionnaire design, data analyses, and simliar activities
manager of decision support systems
employee who supervises the collection and analysis of sales, inventory, and other periodic customer relationship management data.
forecast analyst
employee who provides technical assistance such as running computer programs and manipulating data to generate a sales foreccast
cross functional teams
employee teams composed of individuals from various fucntional areas such as engineering, production, finance, and marketing who share a common purpose.
research suppliers
a marketing research supplier that provides standardized information for many clients in return for a fee
standardized research service
companies develop a unqiue methodology for investigating a business speciality area
ethics
marketing ethics
moral standards
ethical dilemma
relativism (situational)
idealism (golden rule in all ethical dilemma)
rights and obligations of research participants
obligations:
to be truthful

rights:
privacy (active research, passive research)
right to be informed
protection from harm (stress, etc)
rights and obligations of the researcher
the purpose of reserach is research
objectivity
misrepresentation of results (honesty in presenting results)
confidentialty on respondent
dissemination of faulty conclusions
rights and obligations of the client sponsor
ethical behavior between buyer and seller
an open relationship with the research suppliers
an open relationship with interested parties
conflict of interest
occurs when a reseracher is faced with doing something to benefit one client at the expense of another client
qualitative marketing research
research that addresses marketing objectives through techniques that allow the researcher to provide elaborate interpretations of market phenomena without depending on numerical measurements; its focus is on discovering true inner meanings and new insights
resesarcher dependent
research in which the research must extract meaning from unstructed responses such as text from a recorded interview or a collage representing the meaning of some experience
common situations for qualitative research
1. when it is difficult to develope specific and actionable decision statements.
2. when the research objective is to learn how conusmers use a product in its natural setting
3. when a fresh approach to studying some problem is needed
quantitative marketing research
marketing reserach that addresses reserach obecjtives through empirical assessments that involve numerical measurement and analysis approaches.
exploratory research

(qualitative)
most exploratory research designs produce qualitative data.
why conduct exploratory research?
idea generation

concept testing
idea generation
qualitative reserach can generate ides for new products, advertising copy, promotional ids, and product improvements in numerous ways.

technology can also assist in this effort
concept testing
a frequently performed type of exploratory research respresenting many similar research procedures all having the same purrpose; to screen new, revised, or repositioned ideas.
categories of exploratory reserach
experience surveys

secondary data analysis

case studies

pilot studies
experience survey
an exploratory research technique in which individuals who are knowledgeable about a particular reserach problem are questioned.
secondary data analysis
investigating data that have been complied for some purpose other than the project at hand
case studies
the documented history of a particular person, group, organization, or event.

advantage: an entire organization or entity can be investigated in depth with meticulous attention to detail
pilot studies
research project htat involves sampling but relaxes the rigorous standards used to obtain precise quantitative estimates from large representative samples.

focus groups
depth interviews
projective techniques
free association/sentence completion
thematic appreciation test
focus groups

advantages
relatively fast
easy to excecute
allow respondents to piggyback off eachothers ideas
provide mulitple perspectives
flexibility to allow more detailed descriptions
high degree of scrutiny
focus groups

disadvantages
require objective,sensitive, and effective moderators

some unique sampling problems arise with focus groups

face-to-face may not be useful for discussing senstive topics

focus groups do cost a considerable amount
depth interviews
one on one interview between a professoinal reseracher and a research respondent conduced about some relevant business or social topic
laddering

(depth interview)
a particular approach to probing, asking respondents to compare differences between brands at different levels that produces distinctions at the attribute level, the benefit level, and the value or motivation level
projective techniques
an indirect means of questioning that enables a respondent to project beliefs and feelings onto a third party or an inanimate object or into a task situation
free association/sentence completetion
record respondents first cognitive reactions to some stimulus

observatoin
collages
thematic appreciation test (TAT)
a test that presents subjects with an ambiguous pictures in which consumers and products are the center of attention; the investigator asks the subject to tell what is happening in the picture now and what might happen next
secondary reserach data

(advantages)
availability

money and time saved

essential in instances where data cannot be obtained using primary data collection procedures
secondary research data

(disadvantages)
outdated information

variation in definition or terms

different units of measurement

lack of info to verify the data's accuracy
data conversion
the process of changing the original form of the data to a format suitable to achieve the reserach objective; also called data transformation
cross checks
the comparison of data from one source with data from another source to determine the similarity of independent projects
3 general categories for secondary reserach objectives
fact-finding

model building

database marketing
fact finding
identifying comsumption patterns

tracking trends

environmental scanning
model building
estimating market potential

forecasting sales

selecting trade areas and sites
database marketing
enhancing customers databases

developing prospect lists
data mining

market-basket analysis
a form of data mining that analyzes anonymous point of sale tranaction databases to identify coinciding purchases or relationships between products purcahsed and other retail shopping information
sources of secondary data
internal

external
internal secondary data
secondary data that originated inside the organization
external secondary data
data created, recorded, or generated by an entity other than the resarchers organization
secondary data distribution channels
libraries

internet

vendors

producers (books/periodicals, governement sources, media sources, trade association sources, commercial sources)
surveys

(advantages)
quick

inexpensive

efficient

accurate
errors in survey reserach
random sampling error

systematic error

sample bias
random sampling error
a statistical fluctuation that occurs because of chance variation in the elements selected for a sample
systematic error
error resulting from some imperfect aspect of the research design that causes respondent error or from a mistake in the execution of the research
sample bias
a persistent tendency for the results of a sample to deviate in one direction from the true value of the population parameter
surverys

respondent errors
nonresponse error

nonrespondents

no contacts

response bias
nonresponse error
the statistical differences between a survey that includes only those who responded and a perfect survey that would also include those who failed to respond
nonrepsondents
people who are not contacted or who refuse to cooperate in the search
no contacts
people who are not at home or who are otherwise inaccesible on the first or second contact
response bias
a bias that occurs when respondents either consciously or unconsiously tend to answer questions wit ha certain slant that misrepresents the truth
types of response bias'
acquiencence bias-tendency to agree/disagree with all questions

extremity bias-using extremes while responding to questions

interviewer bias-presence of interviewer influences answers

social desirablitiy bias-gain prestige or appear in a different social role
administrative errors

(surveys)
data processing error

sample selection error

interviewer error

interviewer cheating
data processing error
a category of administrative error that occurs because of incorrect data entry, incorrect computer programming, or other procedural errors during data analysis
sample selection error
an administrative error caused by improper sample design or sampling procedure execution
interviewer error
mistakes made by interviewer, failing to record survey responses correctly
interviewer cheating
the practice of fillling in fake answers or falsifying questionnaires while working as an interviwer.
personal interviews

(advantages)
opportunity for feedback

probing complex answers

length of interview

completeness of questionnaire

props and visual aids

high participation
personal interview

(disadvantages)
interviewer influence

lack of anonymity of respondent

cost
door to door interviews
personal interviews conducted at respondents doorsteps in an effort to increase the participation in the survey
callback
attempts to recontact individuals selected for a sample who were not available initially
mall intercept interviews
personal interviews conducted in a shopping mall
telephone interviews
personal interviews conducted by telephone, the mainstay of commercial survey reserach
charactersistics of telephone interviews
speed

cost

absense of face-to-face contact

cooperation

incentives to respond

represntative samples

callbacks

limited duration

lack of visual medium
central location interviews
telephone interviews conducted from a central location using wats lines at fixed charges
computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI)
technology that allows answers to telephone interviews to be entered into a computer for processing
self-administered questionnaires
surveys in which the respondent takes the responsiblity for reading and answering questions
mail questionnaires
self administered qusetionnaire sent to respondents through the mail
mail questionnaires

advantages and disadvantages
geographic flexibility

cost

respondent convienience

anonymity of respondent

absense of interviwer

standardized questions

time is money

length of mail questionnaires
ways to increase survey response rate
personalization

money

interesting questions

follow ups

advance notification

survey sponsorship

other techniques..
internet surveys

characteristics
speed/cost effectiveness

visual appeal and interactivity

respondent participation and cooperation

representative samples

accurate real time data capture

callbacks

personalized and flexible questioning

repsondent concerns

secrunity concerns
observation
systematic process of recording behavioral patterns of people, objects, and occurrences as they happen.
what can be observed
physical action

verbal behavior

expressive behavior

spatial relations and locations

temporal patterns

physical objects

verbal and pictorial records
visible vs. hidden observation
visible observation is an observation in which the observer's presence is known to the subject

hidden observation is observation in which the subject is unaware that observation is taking place
direct observation
a straightforward attempt to observe and record what naturally occurs; the investigator does not create an artificial situation
response latency
the amount of time it takes to make a choice between two alternatives; used as a measure of the strength of preference
observer bias
a distortion of measurement resulting from the cognitive behavior or actions of a witnessing observer
contrived observation
observation in which the investigator creates an artificial environment in order to test a hypothesis
ethics

observation
is the behavior being observed commonly performed in public

is the behavior performed in a setting in which the anonymity of the person being observed is assured

has the person agreed to be observed
content analysis
the systematic observation and quantitative description of the manifest content of communication
television monitoring
computerized mechanical observation used to obtain television ratings
click through rate
proportion of people who are exposed to an Internet ad who actually click on its hyperlink to enter the website; click-through rates are generally very low.
scanner-based consumer panel
a type of consumer panel in which participants' purchasing habits are recorded with a laser scanner rather than a purchase diary
at home scanning systems
systems that allow consumer panelists to perform their own scanning after taking home products, using handheld wands that read UPC symbols
eye tracking monitor
a mechanical device used to observe eye movements; some eye monitors use infrared light beams to measure unconscious eye movements
pupilometer
a mechanical device to observe and record changes in the diameter of a subject's pupils.
psychogalvanometer
a device that measures galvanic skin response, a measure of involuntary changes in the electrical resistance of the skin
voice-pitch analysis
a physiological measurement technique that records abnormal frequencies in the voice that are supposed to reflect emotional reactions to various stimuli