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Overview
Outline
Marketing
Marketing Research Defined
The Role of Marketing Research
Characteristics of Marketing Research
Types of Marketing Research Studies
The Marketing Information System
The Future of Marketing Research
Summary
Learning Objectives
To know what is meant by the term “Marketing”
and “Marketing Research”
To understand the role of marketing research, it’s
uses and characteristics.
To describe a marketing information system and
explain how marketing research and marketing
information systems differ.
Marketing
Marketing Defined- marketing is defined as
the performance of all activities necessary
for the conception, pricing, promotion, and
distribution of ideas, goods and services to
create exchanges that satisfy individual and
organisation objectives.
Marketing Quote
A sweet, brown, fizzy beverage that at once
represents the best and worst of American
business enterprise…Coca-Cola is one of
the world’s truly nonessential products
brilliantly marketed.
Anonymous commentator, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Feb
3 1997.
Marketing Quote
The Arch Deluxe burger tastes like (ouch!) a
Burger King Whopper only with more “glop.”
Consensus of informal marketing survey taken by fortune, Nov 4, 1996
Marketing
Marketing Strategy- consists of selecting a
segment of the market as the company’s
target market and designing the proper “mix”
of product/service , price, promotion and
distribution system to meet the needs of the
consumers within the target market.
Marketing
The Marketing Concept- is a business
philosophy that holds that the key to
achieving organisational goals consists of
determining the needs and wants of target
markets and delivering the desired
satisfactions more effectively and efficiently
than competitors do.
Marketing
Marketing Managers need:
Objective
Accurate
Current Information
Social and Cultural Environment
Political and Legal Environment
Develop Marketing
Strategies
Marketing Research Assists Decision
Making
Quotes
For all the money we spend on marketing,
we know very little about our customers.
Robert Thomas, president of the automobile firm Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A, quoted in wall
Street Journal, December 9, 1996
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