Chapter 7 Flashcards

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The process of defining a marketing problem and opportunity by systematically collecting and analyzing information and recommending actions is known as

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Marketing Research

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What are the seven types of marketing decisions?

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Target Markets
Product
Place/Distribution
Promotion
Pricing
External Factors
Other

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Which type of research looks at sales, market size, demand for product, customer characteristics, purchase behavior, customer satisfaction, and website traffic?

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Target Market Research

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Which type of research looks at product development, package protection, packaging awareness, brand name selection, brand recognition, brand preference, and product positioning?

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Product Research

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Which type of research looks at distributor interest, assessing shipping options, online shopping, and retail store site selection

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Place/Distribution Research

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Which type of research looks at advertising recall, advertising copy testing, sales promotion response rates, sales force compensation, traffic studies (outdoor ads), and public relations media placement?

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Promotion Research

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Which type of research looks at price elasticity analysis optimal price setting, and discount options

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Pricing Research

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Which type of research looks at a competitive analysis, legal environment, social trends, and cultural trends?

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External Factors Research

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Which type of research looks at company image and test marketing?

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Other research

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11
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What are the two main goals of marketing?

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Reduce Risk
Improve marketing decisions

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12
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What are the challenges involved with marketing research?

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  • New products have never been used
  • Truthful answers (personal habits)
  • Intent versus purchase
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Why is it important to write a market research brief?

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  • Clarifies research needs
  • Ensures colleagues are on-board with ideas
  • this in turn helps an agency write better research proposals
  • and achieve business outcomes
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What is involved in the background of a market research brief?

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  • Describe problem you wish to solve
  • Answer what makes it useful
  • what makes it neccessary
    -explain why you are conducting this research
    -include relevant info and examples
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What are some examples of business objectives for a market research brief?

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  • Increasing sales
  • Attracting lapsed customers
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What are some examples of project objectives for market research briefs?

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  • explaining purpose of the project
  • explain expected outcomes
  • are we creating or innovating a new product
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just read over slide 9 every time you see this card

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18
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What are the 5 steps in the marketing research approach leading to marketing actions?

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Define the problem
Develop the research plan
Collect relevant information
Develop findings
Take marketing actions

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What is the most important step of the marketing research approach?

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Defining the problem

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20
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Situations calling for managers to make choices among decision alternatives are known as

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Problems

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21
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Which step of the marketing research approach focuses on setting research objectives and identifying possible marketing actions?

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Step 1: Defining the Problem

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What are some examples of setting research objectives for step 1 of the marketing research approach?

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  • Research objectives state what information to address a particular problem or issue
  • Have a clear research purpose
  • Identify possible marketing decisions
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  • Setting research objectives
    -Identifying possible marketing actions
    are all actions that occur during which stage of the marketing research approach?
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Step 1:Defining the Problem

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  • Specifying constraints
  • Identifying data needed for marketing actions
  • Determining how to collect data
    are all actions that occur during which stage of the marketing research approach?
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Step 2: Developing the research plan

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  • Obtaining secondary data
  • Obtaining primary data
    are all actions that occur during which stage of the marketing research approach?
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Step 3: Collect relevant information

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  • Analyzing the data
  • Presenting the findings
    are all actions that occur during which stage of the marketing research approach?
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Step 4: Developing Findings

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  • Making action recommendations
  • Implementing action recommendations
  • Evaluating results
    are all actions that occur during which stage of the marketing research approach?
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Step 5: Target Marketing Actions

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come back to slide 12

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29
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The criteria or standards used in evaluating proposed solutions to the problem can be defined as

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Measures of Success

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What are possible marketing actions to help define the measures of success of a company?

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  • By, introducing a new product
  • Continuing with an existing product line
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31
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The set of advance decisions to specify the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the needed information is known as

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Research Design

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What are the two ways used to determine how to collect data for marketing actions?

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Concepts- ideas about products
Methods- approaches to collect data

33
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The restrictions placed on possible solutions that consist of time and money are known as

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Constraints

34
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What term involves selecting representative elements from a population, collecting data from them and using it as representative of all those interest in is known as

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Sampling

35
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What term involves drawing conclusions or generalizing the results from the data obtained from the sample taken to the larger population from which the sample is drawn is known as

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Statistical Inference

36
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What type of data is collected prior to the start of the research project from external as well as internal data sources?

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Secondary Data

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Data is collected prior to the start of the research project from external as well as internal data sources is known as?

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Secondary Data

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Data that is collected to address specific research needs from sources such as focus groups, in-depth interviews,and surveys

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Primary Data

39
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Facts and figures pertinent to the project can be defined as

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Data

40
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Facts and figures already recorder prior to the project can be defined as

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Secondary Data

41
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Facts and figures newly collected for the project can be defined as

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Primary Data

42
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What type of data consists of:
- Inputs (budgets, financial statements, sales call reports)
-Outcomes (actual sales and customer communications)

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Internal Data

43
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What type of data consists of:
US Census Reports
Trade Association Studies
Business Periodicals
Internet- Based Reports

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External Data

44
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What type of data consists of:
Mechanical methods
Personal methods
Neuromarketing methods

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Observational Data

45
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What type of data consists of:
Idea Generation methods
Idead evaluation methods

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Questionnaire Data

46
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What type of data consists of:
Social Media
Panels and experiments
Information Tech
Data Mining

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Other sources of data

47
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What are the two examples of secondary data?

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Internal Data
External Data

48
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What are the three examples of primary data?

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Observational Data
Questionnaire Data
Other sources

49
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What type of data is related to the effort expended to make sales through sales and advertising budgets, expenditures, and salespeople’s call reports

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Marketing Input Data

50
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What type of data is related to the results of the marketing efforts used for records on shipments, sales and repeat sales, and communications from customers

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Marketing Outcome Data

51
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slide 23?

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52
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What term is available for a fee from commercial research firms about shifting brand preferences and product usage in households

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Syndicated Panel

53
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What are the 3 examples from the power points of syndicated panels?

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Nielsen Ratings
J.D. Power Survey
IRI InfoScan

54
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What are some examples of secondary data sources?

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Census Bureau
Trade Associations
Universities
Business Periodicals

55
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What are some advantages to using secondary data?

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Time Savings
Inexpensive

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What are some disadvantages of using secondary data?

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  • Out of date
  • Definitions/Categories Not Right
  • Not specific enough
  • Sources could be biased
57
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The research involving collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data buy using open-ended questions, or observing what people do and say can be defined as

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Qualitative Research

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Observation, in-depth interviews, and focus groups are all examples of

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Qualitative Research

59
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Research involving the use of structured, close-ended questions in which response options have been predetermined and a large number of respondents involved can be defined as

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Quantitative Research

60
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An experiment or survey is an example of what kind of research?

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Quantitative Research

61
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What are the 4 examples of primary data?

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Observations
Interviews
Survey Research
Experiments

62
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Examining how people actually behave either mechanically or in person can be defined as an

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Observation

63
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Examining how people actually behave during a
- home visit
- mystery shopping experience
are examples of what type of primary data?

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Observation

64
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The method that involves using a cap or glasses with dozens of sensors to measure brain waves to understand consumers better and their responses to nonconscious stimuli can be defined as

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Neuromarketing

65
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Individual interviews seeking in-depth, open-ended responses that are expensive and time- consuming are known as

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In-depth interviews

66
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Simultaneously interviewing a small group of people (8-12) in an informal group setting where the moderator guides the conversation seeking group interaction that is known as a

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Focus group interview

67
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A systematic means of collecting information from people using a questionnaire that have faster response times and analysis are known as

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Survey

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What is a disadvantage to using surveys as a search

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Not many people complete surveys

69
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What term manipulates one or more variables to determine which variables have a casual effect on other variables is defined as

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Experiment

70
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What are the benefits of obtaining data through social media?

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Most current
Most accurate
Fast
Affordable

71
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What are the advantages of collecting relevant data?

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Specific to the problem
More flexible
Can provide behavioral insight

72
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What are the disadvantages of collecting relevant data?

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Expensive
Time Consuming to Collect

73
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What are some examples of analyzing data?

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  • How are sales?
  • What factors contribute to sales trends
74
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The extraction of hidden
predictive info from large databases to find statistical links between consumer behavior and marketing
actions is known as

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Data Mining

75
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T/F- Step 4 of the Market Research Approach is all about converting data into information to explain, predict, and/or evaluate a particular situation

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True

76
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What are the 3 steps to taking marketing action?

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  • Make Action Recommendations
  • Implement the action recommendations
  • Evaluate the results
    - The decision itself
    - The decision process used
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78
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What are two key elements in deciding how to collect data for marketing research?

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Methods
Concepts