This chapter discusses the consumer research process. It outlines the steps including establishing research objectives, conducting secondary research, designing and implementing primary qualitative and quantitative research methods, analyzing the data collected, and reporting findings. The chapter emphasizes that consumer research is important for firms to understand customers and develop effective marketing strategies, products, and promotional messages. It also explains various research methods and considerations around validity, reliability, and sampling.
2. Learning Objectives
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1. To Understand the Importance of Consumer
Research for Firms and Their Brands, as Well as
Consumers.
2. To Understand the Steps in the Consumer
Research Process.
3. To Understand the Importance of Establishing
Specific Research Objectives as the First Step in
the Design of a Consumer Research Project.
3. Learning Objectives (continued)
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4. To Understand the Purposes and Types of Secondary
Consumer Research That Is Available for Making
Decisions or Planning Future Consumer Research.
5. To Understand Specific Features and Applications of
Different Research Methods to Be Carried Out in
Consumer Research Studies.
6. To Understand Where Data Analysis and Reporting of
Findings Fit in the Research Process.
7. To Understand How Each Element of the Consumer
Research Process Adds to the Overall Outcome of the
Research Study.
4. Why Do Marketers Regularly Test Print Ads
Like This One Before They Are Placed in the
Media?
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5. To Test the Impact of the Message Before
Spending Large Amounts of Money
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6. The Importance of the Consumer
Research Process
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Marketers must understand customers
to design effective:
marketing strategies
products
promotional messages
7. The Consumer Research Process
Figure 2.2
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8. The Consumer Research Process
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Secondary research
Primary research
Qualitative
Quantitative
9. Developing Research Objectives
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Defining purposes and objectives helps ensure
an appropriate research design.
A written statement of objectives helps to
define the type and level of information
needed.
10. Discussion Questions
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Assume you are planning to open a new pizza
restaurant near your campus.
What might be three objectives of a research plan
for your new business?
How could you gather these data?
11. Secondary Data
Data that has been
collected for reasons
other than the specific
research project at hand
Includes internal and
external data
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12. Types of Secondary Data
Internal Data
Data generated in-house
May include analysis of
customer files
Useful for calculating
customer lifetime value
External Data
Data collected by an outside
organization
Includes federal
government, periodicals,
newspapers, books, search
engines
Commercial data is also
available from market
research firms
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13. Discussion Questions
Personal Privacy
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Many people do not like the fact that their
personal data are used for marketing.
How can marketers justify their need for data?
How can they acquire data and maintain
customer privacy?
15. Qualitative Collection Method
Depth Interview
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Also called one-on-one interview
Usually 20 minutes to 1 hour
Nonstructured
Interviewer will often probe to get more
feedback (see following slide for probing)
Session is usually recorded
16. Probing Options for Interviews
Figure 2.3
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17. Qualitative Collection Method
Focus Group
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8-10 participants
Respondents are recruited through a screener
questionnaire
Lasts about 2 hours
Always taped or videotaped to assist analysis
Often held in front of two-way mirrors
Online focus groups are growing
18. Discussion Guides for Research
Step-by-step outline
for depth interviews
and focus groups
Interviewers will
often improvise
and go beyond the
discussion guide
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19. Focus Group Discussion Guide - Figure 2.4
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20. Qualitative Collection Method
Projective Techniques
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Research procedures designed to identify
consumers subconscious feelings and
underlying motivations
Consist of a variety of disguised tests
21. Common Projective Exercises
Table 2.1 (excerpt)
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Description
Word
Associations
The researcher has a list of words, some of them to be studied and some
just as filler. The researcher asks the respondent(s) to react, one-at-a
time, to each word by stating or (in a focus group setting) writing on a
pad the first word that comes to mind, and to explain the link.
Sentence
Completion
The researcher has a series of incomplete sentences that the
respondent(s) needs to complete with a word or phrase.
Photo/Visual
for
Storytelling
The researcher creates/selects a series of photos of consumers, different
brands or products, range of print ads, etc., to serve as stimuli. The
respondents are asked to discuss or tell a story based on their response
to a photo or some other visual stimulus.
Role Playing Is quite similar to storytelling; however, instead of telling a story, the
participant(s) will be given a situation and asked to act out the role(s),
often with regard to a product or brand, or particular selling situation.
22. Qualitative Collection Method
Metaphor Analysis
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Based on belief that metaphors are the most
basic method of thought and communication
Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique
(ZMET) combines collage research and
metaphor analysis to bring to the surface the
mental models and the major themes or
constructs that drive consumer thinking and
behavior.
23. Qualitative Collection Method
Looking-In
Look at information from threads and postings
on social media, including blogs and
discussion forums
Methodology to capture consumers
experiences, opinions, forecasts, needs, and
interests
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25. Data Collection Methods
Observational Research
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Helps marketers gain an in-depth
understanding of the relationship between
people and products by watching them buying
and using products
Helps researchers gain a better understanding
of what the product symbolizes
26. Data Collection Methods
Mechanical Observational Research
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Uses mechanical or electronic device to
record consumer behavior or response
Consumers increased use of highly
convenient technologies will create more
records for marketers
Audits are a type of mechanical observation
which monitor sales
27. Data Collection Methods
Experimentation
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Can be used to test the relative sales appeal of
many types of variables
An experiment is usually controlled with only
some variables manipulated at a time while
the others are constant
Test markets are conducted on a single
market area
Experimentation can be conducted in
laboratories or in the field
28. Discussion Questions
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What might direct marketers test in
experiments?
How can they use the results?
29. Data Collection Methods
Table 2.2
Mail Telephone Personal
Interview
Online
Cost Low Moderate High Low
Speed Slow Immediate Slow Fast
Response rate Low Moderate High Self-selected
Geographic
flexibility
Excellent Good Difficult Excellent
Interviewer
bias
N/A Moderate Problematic N/A
Interviewer
Supervision
N/A Easy Difficult N/A
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30. Validity and Reliability
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If a study has validity, it collects the
appropriate data for the study.
A study has reliability if the same questions,
asked of a similar sample, produce the same
findings.
32. Customer Satisfaction Measurement
Customer
Satisfaction
Surveys
Analysis of
Expectations
versus Experience
Mystery Shoppers
Customer
Complaint Analysis
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33. Sampling and Data Collection
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Samples are a subset of the population used
to estimate characteristics of the entire
population.
A sampling plan addresses:
Whom to survey
How many to survey
How to select them
Researcher must choose probability or
nonprobabililty sample.
34. Data Analysis and Reporting Findings
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Open-ended questions are coded and
quantified.
All responses are tabulated and analyzed.
Final report includes executive summary,
body, tables, and graphs.
35. End of Chapter
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