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Chp. 4 Marketing
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Customer insights | Fresh understandings of customers and the marketplace derived from marketing information that become the basis for creating customer value and relationships. |
| Marketing information system | People and procedures for assessing information needs, developing the needed information, and helping decision makers to use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights. |
| Internal databases | Electronic collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network. |
| Marketing intelligence | The systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketing environment. |
| Marketing research | The systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization. |
| Exploratory research | Marketing research to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses. |
| Descriptive research | Marketing research to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers. |
| Causal research | Marketing research to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships. |
| Secondary data | Information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose. |
| Primary data | Information collected for the specific purpose at hand. |
| Commercial online databases | Computerized collections of information available from online commercial sources or via the internet. |
| Observational research | Gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations. |
| Survey research | Gathering primary data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior. |
| Experimental research | Gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses. |
| Focus group interviewing | Personal interviewing that involves inviting six to ten people to gather for a few hours with a trained interviewer to talk about a product, service, or organization. The interviewer "focuses" the group discussion on important issues. |
| Online marketing research | Collecting primary data online through internet surveys, online focus groups, Web based experiments, or tracking consumers online behavior. |
| Online focus groups | Gathering a small group of people online with a trained moderator to chat about a product, service, or organization and gain qualitative insights about consumer attitudes and behavior. |
| Sample | A segment of the population selected for marketing research to represent the population as a whole. |
| Customer relationship management | Managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer "touch points" in order to maximize customer loyalty. |