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Chapter
4
Conducting
Marketing
Research
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Learning Objectives
1. What is the scope of marketing research?
2. What steps are involved in conducting good
marketing research?
3. What are the best metrics for measuring
marketing productivity?
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CONTENTS OF THE
MARKETING PLAN
• Executive Summary
• Market Summary
• SWOT Analysis
• Marketing Strategy, Target Markets,
Positioning,
• Marketing Mix
• Objectives (marketing, financial)
• Financial Projections
• Implementation
The Scope of
marketing research
• American Marketing Association
– Marketing research is the function that links
the consumer, customer, and public to the
marketer through information—information
used to identify and define marketing
opportunities and problems; generate, refine,
and evaluate marketing actions; monitor
marketing performance; and improve
understanding of marketing as a process.
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The Scope of
marketing research
• Importance of marketing insights
– Generating insights (how and why we observe
certain effects in the marketplace)
The Scope of
marketing research
• Who Does Marketing Research?
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MARKETING RESEARCHER
DEFINED
Systematic design, collection,
analysis, and reporting of data and
findings relevant to a specific
marketing situation facing a
company.
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Step 1
• Define the problem
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Observational research
Focus group research
Survey research
Behavioral research
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Questionnaires
Qualitative measures
Technological devices
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Mail
Telephone
Personal
Online
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Step 3 to Step 6
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Measuring Marketing
Productivity
• Marketing metrics
• Marketing-mix
modeling
• Marketing
dashboards
MARKETING-MIX MODELING
• Analyzes data from a variety of sources, such as
retailer scanner data, company shipment data,
pricing, media, and promotion spending data, to
understand more precisely the effects of specific
marketing activities
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