chapter 4: Managing Marketing Information – Flashcards
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powerful customer and market insights
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marketers must use the information to gain what?
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the huge and complex data sets generated by today's sophisticated information generation, collection, storage , and analysis technologies
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big data
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better information and to make better use of the information they already have
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marketers don't need more information they need...
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fresh marketing information based understandings of customers and the marketplace that become the basis for creating customer value, engagement, and relationships
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customer insights
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people and procedures 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.
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management information systems (MIS)
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what they really need and what is feasible to offer.
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a good MIS balances the information users would like to have against what?
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internal data, marketing intelligence, and marketing research
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marketers can obtain the needed information from who?
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collections of consumer and market information obtained from data sources within the company network
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internal databases
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1. it is often collected for other purposes so it may be incomplete or in the wrong form for making marketing decisions. 2. data ages quickly, keeping the data updated requires major effort. 3. managing the information requires highly sophisticated equipment and techniques
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what are some problems with internal databases
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the systematic monitoring, collection, and analysis of publicly available information about consumers, competitors, and developments in the marketplace.
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competitive marketing intelligence
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to improve strategic decision making by understanding the consumer environment, assessing and tracking competitor's actions, and providing early warnings of opportunities and threats
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what is the goal of competitive marketing intelligence
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1. monitor a competitor's web and social media sites. 2. collect info from executives, engineers, agents, and sales force 3. collect info from retailers, suppliers, resellers, and key customers
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what are some ways to gather competitive marketing intelligence
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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
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1. defining the problem and research objectives 2.developing the research plan, 3.implementing the research plan, 4. interpreting and reporting the findings
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what are the four steps to the marketing research process?
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defining the problem and research objectives
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what is the hardest part of the research process?
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to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses
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exploratory research
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research to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers.
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descriptive research
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research to test hypotheses about cause and effect relationships.
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causal research
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outlines sources of existing data and spells out the specific research approaches, contact methods, sampling plans, and instruments that researchers will use to gather new data.
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research plan
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specific information needs
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research objectives must be translated into what?
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consist of information that already exists somewhere, having been collected for another purpose.
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secondary data
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consists of information collected for the specific purpose at hand.
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primary data
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put an incredible amount of information at the fingertips of marketing decision makers.
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commercial online databases
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can be a big help in locating relevant secondary information sources
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internet search engines
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secondary data can be obtained more quickly and a lower cost that primary data...true or false
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gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations.
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observational research
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a form of observational research that involves sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their natural environments
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ethnographic research
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observing consumers in a natural context on the internet and mobile space
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netnography
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the most widely used method. The gathering of primary data by asking people question about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior.
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survey research
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its flexibility. it can be used to obtain many different kinds of information in many different situations.
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what is the major benefit of survey research?
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best suited for gathering causal information and tries to explain cause and effect relationships. Gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses.
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experimental research
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used to collect large amounts of information at a low cost per respondent
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mail questionnaires
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one of the best methods for gathering information quickly and it provides greater flexibility than mail questionnaires.
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telephone interviewing
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talking with people in their homes or offices on the street or in shopping males. Very flexible
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individual interviewing
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consists of inviting 6 to 10 people to meet with a trained moderator to talk about a product, service, or organization
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group interviewing (focus group interviewing)
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small groups of consumers who interact directly and informally with product designers without a focus group moderator present
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immersion groups
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collecting primary data online through internet surveys, online focus groups, web-based experiments, or tracking of consumers' online behavior.
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online marketing research
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gathering a small group of people online with a trained moderator to chat about a product, service, or organization and gain qualitative insights about consumer attitudes and behavior
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online focus groups
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marketers use the online data to target ads and offers to specific consumers. tracks consumer movements across online sites.
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behavioral targeting
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mines individual online social connections and conversations from social networking sites.
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social targeting
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a segment of the population selected for marketing research to represent the population as a whole. answers who, how many, and how
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sample
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measuring brain activity to learn how consumers feel and respond
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neuromarketing
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include customer purchases, sales force contacts, service and support calls, web and social media site visits, satisfaction surveys, and market research studies, every contact between a customer and company.
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touch points
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managing detailed information about individual customers and carefully managing customer touch points to maximize customer loyalty.
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customer relationship management (CRM)
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to gather information and place it together into a central, accessible location.
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data warehouse
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until it is used to gain customer insights and make better marketing decisions.
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marketing information has no value until what?
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provide ready access to research and intelligence information, customer contact information, reports, shared work documents, and more
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intranet/ internal CRM systems
