Test 2 6-11 Flashcards
What is marketing research?
- Process of defining a marketing problem & opportunity
- Systematically collecting & analyzing information & recommended actions
Challenges in doing good marketing research
- How can marketing research determine if consumers will buy a product they have never seen & never thought of before?
- How can marketing research obtain answers that people know but are reluctant to reveal?
- How can marketing research help people accurately remember and report their interests, intentions, and purchases?
The 5-step process
Step 1: Define the problem
Step 2: Develop the research plan
Step 3: Collect relevant information
Step 4: Develop Findings
Step 5: Take Marketing Actions
Step 1: Define the Problem (most important step)
Set the research objective:
- Exploratory research (provides ideas about a vague problem: interviews focus groups)
- Descriptive research (trying to find the frequency in which something occurs or the extent of a relationship between 2 factors)
- Casual research (tries to determine the extent to which the change in 1 factor changes another)
Step 1: Define the Problem (Lego example)
Lego Mindstorm EV3 (target: middle school boys)
Research objectives: Which of 2 designs to market?
- Whichever design kids could complete in less than 20 minutes
Potential marketing actions: Market design that kids complete in less than 20 minutes
- Did exploratory research (focus groups & interviews)
Step 2: Develop the research plan
- Specify constraints on the marketing research activity
- Identify the data needed for marketing actions
- Determine how to collect data
- Concepts (ideas about products/services)
- Methods (approaches that can be used to solve all or part of the problem)
Special methods vital to marketing are:
- Sampling (selecting people to ask questions)
- Statistical interference (generalizing the results from the sample to draw conclusion about the entire group)
Step 2: Develop the research plan (lego example)
Specify constraints
- Budge limitations (not cited)
- Time limitations (5 weeks)
- Restrictions on collection methods (10 teams of middle schoolers playing with 2 Mindstorm kits)
Identify data needed for marketing actions
- Identify parameters of study (stay focused): time it takes kids to build, engagement during time, students’ math skills?
Determine how to collect data
- Concepts: Developed new-product concept (LEGO group designers develop robots that uses color sensor, voice command)
- Methods: Observe behavior (more than 20 minutes? Frustrations?), ask questions (How long did it take you? Did you enjoy it? What is your favorite subject in school?)
Step 3: Collect relevant information
- Obtain secondary data (already exists)
Internal data:
- Inputs (budgets, financial statements, sales reports)
- Outputs (actual sales & communication with customers)
External Data:
-U.S. Census reports
- Obtain primary data (collected for current study)
Observational data:
- Mechanical methods (people meters, Nielsen media research)
- Personal methods (mystery shoppers, ethnographic research, kraft deli creations)
- Neuromarketing methods (technology used to measure brain activity & changes in physiological state, MRI, Campbell spoons)
Questionnaire data:
- Idea generation methods
- Idea evaluation methods (Questionnaires- likert scale, interviews, focus groups)
Other sources of data:
- Social media, panel & experiments, IT, IoT, Data mining
Step 4: Develop findings
- Analyze the data
- Present the findings (less misrepresentation)
Step 4: Develop findings (lego example)
- Which design led to fastest build? Did kids mind the extra time to build? Was all data measured objectively?
- Conclusion: Kids prefer design, present data in easily understand graphics, data is backup
Step 5: Take marketing action
- Make action recommendations
- Implement action recommendations
- Evaluate results (evaluate the decision itself & the decision process used)
Step 5: Take marketing action (Sales forecasting techniques, trend extrapolation)
Sales forecast: total sales of an offering expected to sell within a specific time period
- Judgement of decision- maker (what you know from past sales)
- Surveys of knowledgeable groups (ask sales force, buyers)
- Statistical methods (trend extrapolation- extending a pattern observed in the past data to the future, assuming what happens in the past will occur in the future) Ex. City planning
In Marketing, STP stands for:
Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning (STP)
Market Segmentation
Involves aggregating prospective buyers into groups, or segments, that:
- Have common needs
- Respond similarly to a marketing action
- Within each segments they have common needs and will respond similarly
Product Differentiation
Product differentiation:
- Strategy of using different marketing mix activities (4 P’s) to help consumers perceive a product as being different and better than competing products
Link to the organization’s marketing mix
- Identify market needs
- Benefits in terms of : product features, expense, quality, savings in time & convenience - Link needs to actions
- Take steps to segment & target markets - Execute marketing program actions
- A marketing mix in terms of: product, price, promotion, place (distribution)
Market-product grid
A framework to related the market segments of potential buyers to products offered or potential marketing actions
Ex. Pillow market (stomach, back, side sleepers)
Advantages:
- Determine target market segments to select
- Determine which product groupings to offer
When and How to Segment Markets
1 product multiple market segments
- Sports magazine, Harry Potter
Multiple products & multiple market segments
- Ford motor company (Lincoln, Aston Martin, Jaguar)
- Tiffany/ Walmart (Old Navy vs Banana Republic)
1 or mass customization (step ahead of BTO)
- Internet ordering (M&Ms)
- Build to Order (BTO): Apple iPhone
The Segmentation Tradeoff: Synergies vs. Cannibalization
Synergy: increased customer value found through performing organizational functions (marketing & manufacturing) more efficiently
- Coca-Cola Company (Sprite, Fanta, Dasani)
Cannibalization: when products “steal” from existing line
- Ann Taylor & LOFT
5 Steps in Segmenting a Market
- Group potential buyers into segments
- Group products to be sold into categories
- Develop a market product grid & estimate size of markets
- Select target markets
- Take marketing actions to reach target markets
Segmenting a market: Step 1: Grouping Buyers into segments
- Simplicity & cost-effectiveness of segmenting (how easy?)
- Potential for increased profit
- Similarity of needs within potential segments
- Difference of needs of buyers among segments
- Potential of marketing actions to reach segments
Ways to segment consumer markets (4)
- Geographic (Campbell’s nacho cheese)
- Demographic (Campbell’s single serve, 50% of US households 1 or 2 people)
- Psychographic (Lifestyle, you are where you live)
- Behavioral: Product Features, Usage rate
80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle)
- 80 % of sales comes from 20% of customers
Product Positioning
Place product occupies in consumers’ mind based on important attributes relative to competitor’s products
Product repositioning
Changing the place product occupies in consumer’s mind
- Head to head positioning: competing direct with competitors or similar attributes in same market
- Differentiation positioning: seeking a less competitive, smaller niche in which to locate a brand
Ex. Repositioning chocolate milk, mother energy, GoDaddy, JCPenny, Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, Starbucks in UK