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Published:
April 5, 2010

Marketing Research Kit For Dummies

Overview

The tools you need to identify, obtain, record, and analyze data

Sure, access to data is faster and easier to obtain than ever before, but how do you cut through the clutter of information to find what's most useful and organize it to suit your purposes? Marketing Research Kit For Dummies supplies a brimming box of tools that help you mine mountains of data, find the sources you need, and focus your marketing plan.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a marketer in a large organization, this powerful resource and companion CD provide you with hands-on tools you need to identify, obtain, record, and analyze secondary, data-electronic and print-for developing or revising a marketing plan, launching a new product or service, or implementing long-term

strategic planning. It also offers clear, in-depth instructions and customizable forms for conducting your own primary research.

  • Includes complete instructions for writing a research plan, conducting depth interviews, and focus groups
  • Fully explains the process of sampling, analyzing data, and reporting results
  • Features tips on developing questionnaires for face-to-face, Internet, and postal surveys
  • Helps you keep an eye on your competition and analyze their results

When money is tight and everything is on the line, you need to make sure you've done your homework. You need Marketing Research Kit For Dummies.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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About The Author

Michael R. Hyman, PhD, is a Stan Fulton Chair and professor of marketing, the author of more than 100 published scholarly papers, and current member of nine journal editorial review boards.

Jeremy J. Sierra, PhD, is an assistant professor of marketing with a teaching interest in sports marketing and marketing research.

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CHEAT SHEET

Marketing can increase your sales and profits. To optimize your sales and target the best customers, you need to conduct research to pinpoint the best approach for your marketing communications and strategies. Ensure that you’re conducting the best research possible, recognize and question standard marketing research terms so you understand every step of the process, and practice good research ethics to protect your business and guarantee its success.

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Successful marketing research helps you make good marketing decisions and run a successful business. The following are some ideas for those moments when you decide you really need to concentrate on marketing to boost sales to a higher level. This simple checklist can ensure that you’re conducting good marketing research: You have well-defined research questions.
Conducting marketing research involves working with professionals who use a variety of terms to describe the parts or steps of the research process. The following are common terms you’re likely to encounter in your research, along with definitions. Close-ended question: A survey question that asks you to choose from a variety of answers — like a multiple-choice question.
Marketing can increase your sales and profits. To optimize your sales and target the best customers, you need to conduct research to pinpoint the best approach for your marketing communications and strategies. Ensure that you’re conducting the best research possible, recognize and question standard marketing research terms so you understand every step of the process, and practice good research ethics to protect your business and guarantee its success.
Often, the success of marketing research depends on cooperative respondents. So when a researcher behaves unethically and abuses those respondents, he not only hurts the future of his business, but he also potentially hurts the success of future research because abusive or questionable treatment tends to discourage respondents from participating in future studies.
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