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What constitutes good marketing research?
What are the best metrics for measuring
marketing productivity?
How can marketers assess their return on
investment of marketing expenditures?
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3. What is Marketing Research?
Marketing research is the systematic design,
collection, analysis, and reporting of data
and findings relevant to a specific marketing
situation facing the company.
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4. Types of Marketing Research Firms
Syndicated: These firms gather consumer and
trade information which they sell for a fee. Eg
Nielson company.
Custom: It is specifically conducted for and
funded by a single client company, and the
results are proprietary to the client.
Specialty-line: Once a market research firm has
a grip on one specialty, then the firm may be
known as a specialty market research firm.
Many a times, such market research firms also
depend on the team of directors leading them.
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Step 1: Define the Problem
Define the problem
Specify decision alternatives
State research objectives
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Step 2: Develop the Research Plan
This process is to develop the most efficient plan
for gathering the needed information and what
that will cost. To design a research plan,
researchers make the decisions about:
a) Data sources
b) Research approach
c) Research instruments
d) Sampling plan
e) Contact methods
10. 2 a)Data sources
Primary Data: Data freshly gathered for a
specific purpose or for a specific research
project. Most marketing research projects do
include primary data.
Secondary Data: Data that were collected for
another purpose and already exist
somewhere. Researchers usually start their
investigation by examining some of the rich
variety of low-cost and readily available
secondary data
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2 b) Research Approaches: Marketers
collect primary data in five main ways
Observational and ethnographic
Focus group
Survey
Behavioral
Experimental
13. 2c) Research Instruments
Qualitative Measures (it is relatively unstructured
measurement approach that permit a range of
possible responses to gauge more consumer
opinions because consumer actions don’t always
match their answers to survey questions)
Questionnaires ( set of questions presented to
respondent- open ended or closed ended
Questions)
Technological Devices
14. Qualitative Techniques
Word Associations: what word comes to you
mind when the consumer hear the brand
name?
Visualization: It requires people to create
collage from magazine photos or drawing to
depict their perceptions
Projective Techniques: give people an
incomplete stimulus and ask to complete it
Laddering: A series of increasingly more specific “ why”
questions can reveal consumer's’ motivation and
consumer’s deeper and abstract goals
Brand Personification: Ask respondents what kind of
person they think of when the brand is mentioned?
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Question Types - Dichotomous
In arranging this trip, did you contact
American Airlines?
Yes No
16. Question Types – Multiple Choice
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With whom are you traveling on this trip?
No one
Spouse
Spouse and children
Children only
Business associates/friends/relatives
An organized tour group
17. Question Types – Likert Scale
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Indicate your level of agreement with the
following statement: Small airlines generally
give better service than large ones.
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Strongly agree
18. Question Types –
Semantic Differential
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American Airlines
Large ………………………………...…….Small
Experienced………………….….Inexperienced
Modern……………………….…..Old-fashioned
19. Question Types –
Importance Scale
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Airline food service is _____ to me.
Extremely important
Very important
Somewhat important
Not very important
Not at all important
20. Question Types – Rating Scale
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American Airlines’ food service is _____.
Excellent
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
21. Question Types –
Intention to Buy Scale
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How likely are you to purchase tickets on
American Airlines if in-flight Internet access
were available?
Definitely buy
Probably buy
Not sure
Probably not buy
Definitely not buy
22. Question Types –
Intention to Buy Scale
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How likely are you to purchase tickets on
American Airlines if in-flight Internet access
were available?
Definitely buy
Probably buy
Not sure
Probably not buy
Definitely not buy
23. Question Types –
Completely Unstructured
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What is your opinion of American Airlines?
24. Question Types –
Word Association
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What is the first word that comes to your mind
when you hear the following?
Airline ________________________
American _____________________
Travel ________________________
25. Question Types –
Sentence Completion
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When I choose an airline, the most important
consideration in my decision is:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
__________________.
26. Question Types –
Story Completion
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“I flew American a few days ago. I noticed
that the exterior and interior of the plane had
very bright colors. This aroused in me the
following thoughts and feelings.” Now
complete the story.
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
27. Technological Devices
Galvanometers: It measures the interest or emotions
aroused by exposure to a specific ad or picture.
Tachistoscope: It flashes an ad to a subject with an
exposure interval that may range from less than 1/100th of a
second to several seconds. After each exposure respondent
describes everything he or she recalls
Eye cameras: It study respondents’ eye movement to see
where their eyes land first, how long they linger on a given
time
Audiometers: this is attached to respondents’ television sets
in their homes and record when the TV set is on and to
which channel it is tuned.
GPS (Global Positioning System): How many billboards a
person may walk or drive by during a day.
28. 2 d) Sampling Plan
Sampling unit: Who is to be surveyed?
Sample size: How many people should be
surveyed?- large sample size give reliable
results
Sampling procedure: How should the
respondents be chosen?- probability sampling,
convenience sampling/ snowball sampling/
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29. 2 e) Contact Methods: Now the
marketers must decide how to contact the
respondents
Mail Contacts- mail questionnaire is one way to
reach people who would not give personal interview or
whose response might be biased or distorted by the
interviewer. Response rate is low or slow
Telephone Contacts – quick method to gather
information; response rate is higher as
compare to mailed questionnaires.
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30. 2 e) Contact Methods.. continued
Personal Contacts: Personal interviewing the most
expensive method. Interviewer bias and requires
more administrative planning and supervision.
Arranged interviews: appointment with the
respondents and Intercept Interview: researcher
stop people at shopping mall and request an
interview on the spot.
Online Contacts: Company can embed its
questionnaire on its website and offer an incentive
to answer it or it can place a banner on a
frequently visited site such as Yahoo.
31. Pros and Cons of
Online Research
Advantages
Inexpensive
Fast
Accuracy of data
Versatility
Disadvantages
Small samples
Skewed samples
Technological
problems
Inconsistencies
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32. Step 3: Collect the information
Step 4: Analyze the information: Extract
finding by tabulating the data and developing
summary measures. Statistical techniques are
used to analyzed the data and averages are
calculated of variables.
Step 5: Present the Findings
Step 6: Make the Decision
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33. Barriers Limiting the Use of
Marketing Research
A narrow conception of the research
Uneven caliber of researchers
Poor framing of the problem
Personality and presentational differences
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Table 4.3 Characteristics of
Good Marketing Research
Scientific method
Research creativity
Multiple methods
Interdependence
Value and cost of information
Healthy skepticism
Ethical marketing
35. For Review
What constitutes good marketing research?
What are the best metrics for measuring
marketing productivity?
How can marketers assess their return on
investment of marketing expenditures?
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