Ch. 10 Marketing Research Flashcards
Marketing Research Process
- Define obj and research needs
- Design the research
- Data collection process
- Analyze data and develop insights
- Action plan and implementation
Marketing Research
Prerequisite of successful decision making
Secondary Data
Info collected prior to the start of the focal research project
Primary Data
Data collected to address specific research needs
Sample
Generalize opinions to describe all customers w/ same characteristics
Data
Raw numbers or factual info that have limited value to marketers
Information
When data’s interrupted, which results from organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data and putting them into a form that’s useful to marketing decision makers
Syndicated data
Marketers can purchase external secondary data which are available for a fee from commercial tease arch firms such as SymphonyIRI Group, the National Purchase Diary Panel, and ACNielsen
Scanner Data
Used in quantitative research obtained from scanner readings of UPC labels at check out counters
Panel Data
Info collected from a group of consumers, organized into panels, over time
Data Warehouse
Millions and billions pieces of individual data are stored in large computer files
Data Mining
Uses variety of statistical analysis tools to uncover previous unknown patterns in data or relationships among variables
Churn
of participants who discontinue use of service/ avg # of total participants