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Marketing Chapter 5
Term | Definition |
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Marketing research | The systematic design, collection, interpretation, and reporting of information to help marketers solve specific marketing problems or take advantage of marketing opportunities |
Conclusive Research | Research designed to verify insights through objective procedures and to help marketers in making decisions |
Descriptive Research | Research conducted to clarify the characteristics of certain phenomena to solve a particular problem |
experimental research | research that allows marketers to make causal inferences about relationships |
reliability | a condition that exists when a research technique produces almost identical results in repeated trials |
validity | a condition that exists when a research method measures what it is supposed to measure |
primary data | data observed and recorded or collected directly from respondents |
secondary data | data compiled both inside and outside the organization for some purpose other than the current investigation |
sampling | The process of selecting representative units from a total population |
probability sampling | a type of sampling in which every element in the population being studied has a known chance of being selected for study |
random sampling | a form of probability sampling in which all units in a population have an equal chance of appearing in the sample, and the various events that can occur have an equal or known chance of taking place |
stratified sampling | a type of probability sampling in which the population is divided into groups with a common attribute and a random sample is chosen within each group |
Telephone Survey | A research method in which respondents' answers to a questionnaire are recorded by an interviewer on the phone |
online survey | a research method in which respondents answer a questionnaire via e-mail or on a website |
crowdsourcing | Combines the words crowd and outsourcing and calls for taking tasks usually performed by a marketer or researcher and outsourcing them to a crowd, or potential market, through an open call |
personal interview survey | a research method in which participants respond to survey questions face-to-face |
in-home (door-to-door) interview | a personal interview that takes place in the respondent's home |
focus-group interview | an interview that is often conducted informally, without a structured questionnaire, in small groups of 8 to 12 people, to observe interaction when members are exposed to an idea or a concept |
customer advisory boards | Small groups of actual customers who serve as sounding boards for new-product ideas and offer insights into their feelings and attitudes toward a firm's products and other elements of its marketing strategy |
telephone depth interview | an interview that combines the traditional focus group's ability to probe with the confidentiality provided by telephone surveys |