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marketing 17e
Learning Objectives
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Marketing Information and
Customer Insights
Marketing information system (MIS) is the people
and procedures assessing information needs,
developing the needed information, and helping
decision makers to use the information to generate
and validate actionable customer and market insights.
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MIS step 2:
Developing Marketing Information
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The systematic
design, collection,
analysis, and
reporting of data
relevant to a specific
marketing situation
facing an
organization.
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Marketing Research stage 1:
(1) Defining the Problem and Research Objectives
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Marketing Research stage 1:
(1) Defining the Problem and Research Objectives (Cont.)
• Gather preliminary information that will
Exploratory help define the problem and suggest
Research hypotheses.
• Describes things .
Descriptive
Research
Secondary data
• Information that already exists somewhere,
having been collected for another purpose
Primary data
• Information collected for the specific
purpose at hand
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Developing the Research Plan
Gathering Secondary Data
Common sources of secondary data:
- Internal company databases
- Commercial online databases
- Internet search engines
Advantages Disadvantages
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