Mark study modules: Ch. 4
__________ is used to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships.
Casual research
Which term refers to the systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketing environment?
Competitive marketing intelligence
Which term refers to the fresh understandings of customers and the marketplace derived from marketing information?
Customer insights
__________ is used to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers.
Descriptive research
What is the second step in the marketing research process?
Developing the research plan for collecting information
__________ is used to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses.
Exploratory research
Which of the following best defines secondary data?
Information that already exists somewhere having been collected for another purpose
________ is(are) electronic collections of customer and marketing information obtained from data sources within the company network.
Internal databases
What is survey research?
Involves gathering primary data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior
__________ is defined as the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization.
Marketing Research
In a __________ sample, the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and the researcher draws a sample of the groups to interview.
cluster
The third step in the marketing research process is ________.
implementing the research plan
How is primary data defined?
information collected for the specific purpose at hand
Which of the following describes marketing information systems?
people and processes dedicated to assessing information needs, developing the needed information, and helping decision makers to use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights
Developing the research plan for collecting information is the __________ step in the marketing research process.
second
In a __________ sample, the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and random samples are drawn from each group.
stratified random
Customer insights are best described as __________.
the fresh understandings of customers and the marketplace derived from marketing information that become the basis for creating customer value and relationships
Big data is ________.
the huge and complex data sets generated by today's sophisticated information generation, collection, storage, and analysis technologies
In a stratified random sample, __________.
the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and random samples are drawn from each group
In a cluster sample, __________.
the population is divided into mutually exclusive groups and the researcher draws a sample of the groups to interview
Marketing research is best defined as __________.
the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization
________ is(are) people and processes dedicated to assessing information needs, developing the needed information, and helping decision makers to use the information to generate and validate actionable customer and market insights.
Marketing information systems (MIS)
Which of the following describes customer relationship management (CRM)?
The management of detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty
Descriptive research is __________.
used to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers
Exploratory research is __________.
used to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses
__________ involves gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses.
Experimental research
__________ is defined as the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization.
Marketing research
________ is the collection of primary data through internet and mobile surveys, online focus groups, consumer tracking, experiments, and online panels and brand communities.
Online marketing research
__________ consist of information collected for the specific purpose at hand.
Primary data
Which of the following describes observational research?
Involves gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations
