Marketing research is defined as the systematic collection and analysis of data relevant to a specific marketing situation. The mission of IU Marketing Research is to develop constituent insights that impact broad marketing successes. They accomplish this by prioritizing partner needs, focusing on actionable results, ensuring return on investment in research and marketing, measuring results, adding humanizing elements to presentations, and maintaining objectivity. IU Marketing Research tackles fiscal year priorities identified by IUAA and IUF leaders using a variety of strategies like consultation, newsletters, best practices research, audits, focus groups, interviews, observational research, surveys, trends reports, data analysis, and vendor management.