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Managing Marketing Information
•Chapter 6
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•Instructor name
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Learning Objectives
• After studying this chapter, you should be able to:– Explain the importance of information to the company
– Define the marketing information system and discuss its parts
– Outline the four steps in the marketing research process
– Explain how companies analyze and distribute marketing information
– Discuss the special issues some marketing researchers face, including public policy and ethics issues
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Opening Vignette: The New Coke Debacle
• Coca-Cola began over 100 years, one of the world’s best known and valuable brands
• “Don’t mess with Mother Coke” ignored in 1985, when the original formulation was changed
• Poor marketing research blamed
• Two years, and $7.8 million spent on taste testing proved that consumers like the taste of “new Coke” better than Pepsi and existing Coke
• Research dealt only with taste, did not explore consumers’ attachment to the product, and all of its intangibles
• Coke Classic quickly introduced, new Coke quietly fades into the background
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Why Marketing Information?
• The marketing concept:– Achieve organizational objectives by
• Determining needs and wants of target consumers
• Delivering satisfaction
• Better than competitors
• To successfully practice the marketing concept, marketers need information,
• To properly determine:
– Environmental changes
– What customers want, and
– What the competition is doing
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The Marketing Information System
• People, equipment, and procedures– To gather, sort,
analyze, evaluate, and distribute
• Needed, timely, and accurate information to marketing decision makers
Figure 6.1
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The Marketing Information System
• Assessing information needs:– Remember, the objective is to make better marketing decisions– Must consider needs of all users
– Must balance information wants with decision making needs and feasibility (and costs) of offering it
– The value of information comes from its use, not its existence
• Developing information:– Internal data– Marketing intelligence (on
competitors) (– Marketing research (design,
collection, analysis, reporting)
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Developing Information
• Internal data:– Information collected from different sources within the company,
and stored within the organization’s information system
• Accounting system• Operations/production
• Sales reporting system
• Past research studies
– Internal data is cheap, quick, and easy
– May not be in a usable form for the decision to be made
– May be too much information to sort through
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Developing Information
• Marketing intelligence:
– Systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about competitors and market developments
– Proactive approach to keeping track of what is going on within the organization’s marketing environment
• Sources: employees, customers, trade shows, websites, marketing communications, suppliers, resellers, professional information services, and “dumpster diving”
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The Marketing Research Process
• Marketing research:– Systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting data relevant
to a specific marketing situation facing the organization
– A multi-step, purpose-driven process
– Measure effectiveness of marketing actions, sales potential, try to understand consumer behaviour, customer needs, distribution systems
– Can be done by company personnel or contracted out to outside companies
Figure 6.2
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Defining the problem– Helps to know what you are looking for!– Can be the most difficult step in the process– Need to scope the project large enough in order to understand
what really causes the problem. It can be done through:
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c.The Marketing Research Process (continued)
Objectives of research
– Exploratory research:• Research conducted to gather information to help better define problems and opportunities• Secondary research, focus group discussions and depth interviews are commonly used for
this purpose
– Descriptive research:• Research conducted to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as• Demographic characteristics of markets, attitudes of consumers, and market potential for a
product
• Surveys and personal interviews are commonly used– Causal research:
• Research to test cause and effect relationships between variables of interest, such as experiments
Figure 6.2
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Developing the research plan:– Translating the research objectives into specific information needs– Research plan presented in a written proposal for approval
• Gathering data– Secondary data: information that already exists, having been
collected for another purpose• Internal data, academic, and commercial sources• Faster and cheaper than primary data collection, but may not be in a suitable form for
decision making• Helps to see what work has already been done in the area
– Primary data collection:• Information collected for the specific purpose• Must look for relevance, accuracy, current, and unbiased
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Selected External Information Sources
Business data:– Scott’s directories
– Canadian trade index
– AC Nielson
– Information Resources Inc.
– Dun & Bradstreet
– Dialog
– LEXIS-NEXIS
– Dow Jones Interactive
– Hoovers Online
– CNN
– Marketing journals
– Trade publications
– General business magazines
Government data:– Statistics Canada
– Industry Canada Strategis
– SEDAR
– Securities and Exchange Commission
– Stat-USA
• Internet data:– CyberAtlas
– Internet Advertising Bureau
– Jupiter Media Metrix
Source: Table 6.1
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c.The Marketing Research Process (continued)
Primary data collection methods
• Observational research:– Gathering of primary data by strictly observing relevant
people, actions, and situations
– Ethnographic research combines observation with interviews to get a better insight
– Mechanical observation: scanner data
– Useful but difficult to ascertain feelings, attitudes, or motives
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Survey research:– Gathering primary data by asking people questions– Good to know about people’s knowledge, attitudes, preferences,
and buying behaviour– Best suited for gathering descriptive information– Single-source data systems:
• Electronic monitoring systems that link exposure to various marketing activities through advertising (using meters) and what they buy in stores (checkout scanners)
• Survey research is flexible but may suffer bias due to self-reporting or lack of understanding of what is being asked
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Experimental research:– Gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects
– Giving them different treatments
– Controlling unrelated factors
– Checking for differences in group responses• Experimental research is used when attempting to explain cause and
effect relationships
• Difficult to control for all situations or variables that have an influence on behaviour
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Contact Methods
Source: Adapted with permission from Marketing Research: Measurement and Method,
7th ed., by D.S. Tull and D.I. Hawkins, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1993
Table 6.3
Mail Telephone Personal Online
Flexibility Poor Good Excellent Good
Quantity of data collected Good Fair Excellent Good
Control of interviewer effect Excellent Fair Poor Fair
Control of sample Fair Excellent Fair Poor
Speed of data collection Poor Excellent Good Excellent
Response rate Poor Good Good Good
Cost Good Fair Poor Excellent
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Sample:– A segment of the population selected for marketing research
– To represent the population as a whole
• Who should be surveyed? Sampling unit
• How many should be surveyed? Sample size
• How should they be chosen? Sampling procedure
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Research instruments:– Questionnaires are the most commonly used
– Mechanical devices are the other option
– Questions asked can be open or closed
– Writing good (valid) questions can be difficult
– Wording and order are important
– Pre-testing is important to ensure good results
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The Marketing Research Process (continued)
• Implementing the research plan:– Collecting, processing, and analyzing the information
– Data collection is expensive and most subject to error
– Field work needs to be supervised to ensure accuracy
• Interpreting the results:– Attempting to find meaning to the data collected
– Need to be careful to avoid bias in interpretation; getting the answer that was favored in the beginning or that suits a particular political agenda (Challenging a report made by a coworker)
Figure 6.2
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Customer Relationship Management
• Customer relationship management (CRM):– Managing detailed information about individual
customers at all “touch pointst to maximize customer loyalty through a better servicing (Bell, Banks)
– Use data warehouses and use datamining techniques to dig out relevant information
– Purpose is to make better use of the information the company already has
– The goal is to provide higher levels of customer service
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Other Marketing Research Considerations
• Research in small businesses and non-profit organizations
• International marketing research
• Public policy and ethics in marketing research:– Privacy of information
– Selling under the guise of conducting research activities
– Misuse of research findings for promotional purposes
– Acceptable lies and non acceptable ones
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In Conclusion…
• The learning objectives for this chapter were:– Explain the importance of information to the company
– Define the marketing information system and discuss its parts– Outline the four steps in the
marketing research process
– Explain how companies analyze and distribute marketing information
– Discuss the special issues some marketing researchers face, including public policy and ethics issues