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Data or data
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Companies carry out this activity to understand New Product Developments, particularly to:

- reduce the risks associated with new product launches

- predict future demand changes

-  assess the most favoured designs, flavours, styles, promotions and packages for a product

- explain patterns in sales of existing products and market trends

                                   


    

What is market research?

[refer to ppt]



100

Methods of presenting data

What are tables, line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts etc. 

[refer to page 392]

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  • Interviews (telephone or face-to-face)
  • Questionnaires (online or mail)
  • Focus groups.
  • Visits to competitors' locations.

What is primary research? 

(first hand research, data that YOU generated) 

200

A group of people who are asked about their attitude towards a product, service, advertisement or new style of packaging

200

This measurement of data helps make comparisons between sets of data by generalizing each set through one number, it's good because it includes all data in its calculation and is easily understood, but extreme data impact the results greatly and is commonly not a whole number

What is mean / average?

[page 392]

200

Market reports, Textbooks, government publications, news articles, online review, company website, company social media, Academic journals, youtube videos, podcasts, blogs 

What is secondary research?

(data that already exists) 

[refer to ppt] 

300

I can't possibly survey EVERYONE in the population, so I take this instead. 

OR

a group of people taking part in a market research survey selected to be representative of the target market overall

What is a sample?

[refer to ppt]

300

This is the middle value when a data set is ordered from least to greatest, the calculation is not straightforward and when the set is an even number the value is approximated 

What is median?

300

In this primary research method, questions could easily be misunderstood and the sample returned could be biased in favour of those respondents with the most spare time


What are questionnaires?

400

Numerical vs. non-numerical research and results 

What is quantitative and qualitative research?

400

With this primary research method you can avoid bias in the way in which you ask questions, and detailed questions can be explained, you can also ask follow up questions

What are interviews?

500

The number that occurs most often in a data set, its easily observed and no calculation is needed

What is mode?

500

The researcher should have the permission of the people he is studying, not take advantage of easy access groups (kids), not harm others, keep information anonymous, accurately present what is observed even if they dont like the results 

What are the ethical considerations of market research?