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Chapter 15
Researching your business
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Idea screening | Sorting the promising ideas from the weak ideas |
| Concept development | Taking a business idea and asking the important business questions before committing further time and energy to the product |
| Prodotype | A sample product produced on an experimental basis to see if the idea works in practice |
| Market research | Involves gathering and analysing info about the potential market for a product |
| Desk reasearch | Accessing information that already exists |
| Field reasearch | Involves going into the market place to gather information directly from consumers and competitors |
| Observation reasearch | Involves watching the behaviours of consumers |
| Customer surveys | Invovles using a questionnaire and asking consumers about the attitudes to new product ideas or to existing goods or services |
| Sampling | Refers to interviewing a small group of people who are representative of the larger target market |
| Focus groups | Involves gathering a group of people together and discussing in detail their consumer attitudes habits and behaviours |
| Test marketing | Involved trying out the product or service on a small scale to evaluate customer reactions |
| Franchising | Means setting up in business by renting a business name and Idea that is already proven successful |