Marketing Research
Research Approaches
Research Types
Other Key Terms
Potpourri
100
The systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data relevant to a specific marketing situation facing an organization
What is Marketing Research
100
The gathering of primary data by observing relevant people, actions, and situations
What is Observational Research
100
Personal interviewing that involves inviting 6 to 10 people to gather for a few hours with a trained interviewer to talk about a product, service, or organization. The interviewer “focuses” the group discussion on important issues
What is Focus Group Interviewing
100
The overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction
What is Customer relationship management (CRM)
100
A mixture of dried, naturally fragrant plant material, used to provide a gentle natural scent in houses
What is Potpourri
200
Marketing research to better describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers.
What is Descriptive Research
200
Research that involves sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their "natural habitat"
What is Ethnographic Research
200
Collecting primary data through Internet surveys and online focus groups
What is Online Marketing Research
200
Fresh understandings of customers and the marketplace from derived from marketing information that becomes the basis for creating customer value and relationships.
What is Customer Insights
200
The French translation for Potpourri.
What is rotten pot
300
Marketing research to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses
What is Exploratory Research
300
The gathering of primary data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior
What is Survey Research
300
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 and behaviors.
What is Online Focus Groups
300
The systematic collection and analysis of publicly available information about competitors and developments in the marketing environment
What is Marketing intelligence
300
The Century in which the gathering of Potpourri began
What is 17th Century
400
Marketing research to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships
What is Causal Research
400
The gathering of primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses.
What is Experimental Research
400
The gathering of primary data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior
What is Survey Research
400
A segment of the population selected for marketing research to represent the population as a whole; a small amount of a product offered to customers for trial
What is a Sample
400
The country in which Potpourri started
What is France
500
The process that defines which kind of market research a company needs.
What is Research Objectives
500
Information collected for the specific purpose at hand.
What is Primary data
500
The gathering of primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses.
What is Experimental Research
500
People, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to marketing decision makers
What is Marketing Information System or MIS
500
The Spanish translation of Potpourri.
What is a kind of stew