Created by 19leesia
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Question | Answer |
why do market research? | helps reduce risk of failure ↑success |
why use Primary Research | collect new info and sources |
advantages and disadvantages of primary research | PROS original info can be tailored to the needs of customers CONS time consuming sometimes expensive |
explain the uses of market research | market (market size, trends, sales) competition (number of competitors) price product (wants and needs) promotion (effectiveness/method) place (best outlets for products) |
Methods of Primary Research | Questionnaires Focus groups/ Control Panels Observation Test marketing |
Factors to consider when writing questionnaires | balance of open and closed questions clear and simple questions no leading questions (unbiased) short and concise |
Problems with questionnaires as a research tool | postal survey (waste of paper, no reply) telephone interviews (cheap, disliked) personal interviews (detailed, disliked) online surveys (↑answers) |
Focus groups/ Control Panels | ↑detail customers invited to attend discussion among researchers CP: asked for feedback over time |
Observation | watch customer's behavior no feedback questions are not answered |
Test marketing | selling product in a certain area before expanding reduces failure |
Secondary research | business websites media commercial publication government publications internal data external data competitors |
Business websites | history price lists product information outlets new releases |
Media | newspaper magazine television |
Commercial publications | data gathered by market thats sold to businesses |
Government publications | population data economic data (inflation, retail spending, unemployment) |
Internal data | sales figures budgets reports stock data complains previous research |
Competitors | annual reports price lists product catalogues PR material |
Sample/Sampling | small group of people which must represent a proportion of total market in research |
Ways of dividing samples | age gender income |
Stratified sample | samples that are divided to help to get a representative across different groups |
Limitations of Market Research | data can be biased (sample≠representative) unpredictable (irl≠research) poor research technique |
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