Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Market research and
Customers 3.3.2
- MARKETING DATA
- TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
- Trends
- Long term movement of a variable.
- Seasonal
- Fluctuations repeat on a regular basis
- Random
- Fluctuations with no pattern to them
suchas war
- EXTRAPOLATION
- Is used to predict e.g Future sales
- Relies on past trends and is most useful
in stable enviroments
- CORRELATION
- Measures how closely two
variables are related
- Remember one
doesn't
always cause the
other
- MARKET RESEARCH
- PRIMARY
- Questionnaires, interviews, surveys
and focus groups.
- Exclusive to the
business that
searched it.
- Uses sampling
- Test marketing
- Labour intensive and expensive.
- SECONDARY
- Internal source
- Loyalty cards.
- Financial accounts
- Stock records.
- External sources
- Government
publications
- Pressure groups
- Trade magazines.
- Cheap, easy & fast
- QUANTITATIVE
- Numerical statistics
- Facts and figures
- Info discovered through records and closed questions.
- QUALITATIVE
- Feelings and motivations
- Info discovered through focus groups
- ELASTICITY
OF
DEMAND
- ELASTICITY HELPS A
BUSINESS MAKE
CHOICES
- PRICE ELASTICITY
- shows how demand changes with price.
- Help business to decide
whether to raise or lower price
of product
- PED = % in quantity demanded/ % change in price.
- INCOME ELASTICITY
- shows how demand changes with
consumer income
- Positive Income elasticity
- less than 1
- as income rises so does demand - but at a slower rate than the rise in income.
- YED= % change in quantity demanded/% in real income