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MKTG 470 - Chapter 1
Midterm
Question | Answer |
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Marketing Research | Function that links an organization to its market through the gathering of information. Identify new product opportunities, develop advertising strategies, implement new data-gathering to better understand customers. |
Marketing Situation Analysis | Monitor marketing programs and determine whether changes are necessary. |
3 Decision Areas of Marketing Situation Analysis | market analysis, market segmentation, competition analysis |
Market Analysis | Research task related to opportunity assessment. Involves collecting market info to forecast changes. |
Market segmentation | examines similarities and differences in customer needs. Objective is to collect info about customer characteristics, product benefits, and brand preferences. |
Competitive analysis | evaluates competitor's strategies, strengths, limitations, and future plans. Asks consumers to identify key attributes that drive their purchase behavior. |
Marketing Strategy design | info collected during situation analysis to design a marketing strategy |
target marketing analysis | info for identifying those people that org wishes to serve |
positioning | company seeks to establish a meaning or general definition of its product offering that is consistent with customers' needs and preferences |
product portfolio analysis | total product line is focal point, studies are designed to help managers make decisions |
marketing program development | product, distribution, pricing, promotion |
internal research firm | benefits include research method consistency,shared info across company, lower research costs, ability to product actionable research results |
external research firm | perform all aspects of research such as questionnaire production, study design, interviewing, data analysis, report preparation |
customized research firm | focus on specific areas such as brand-name selection, new product development |
standardized research firms | follow established common approach in research design so results of study for one client can be compared to studies done for others |