Analyze and Present Research Information
After-class Assignment
10IB Class 03
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Task 1 The Role of Marketing Research (Chapter 1)
1.What is the Marketing Research?
Marketing Research: The application of the scientific method in searching for the truth about marketing phenomena. These activities include defining marketing opportunities and problems , generating and evaluating marketing ideas, monitoring performance, and understanding the marketing process.
2.What are the differences between Basic Research and Applied Research?
Basic Research conducted without a specific descision in mind that usually does not address the needs of a specific organization; Applied Research conducted to address a specific marketing descision for a specific firm or organization.
3.What is the Marketing Concept concerned with?
Marketing Concept concerned with consumer desires, beliefs, and attitudes becomes essential.
4.What four stages does a marketing strategy involve?
A marketing strategy involve following four stages:
(1)Identifying and evaluuating market opportunities;
(2)Analyzing market segments and selecting target markets;
(3)Planning and implementing a marketing mix that will provide value to customers and meet organizational objectives;
(4)Analyzing firm performance
5.Which factors should be considered when a marketing manager faces the decision when to conduct a marketing research? Please explain.
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Task 2 (Chapter 3, 5)
1.What are the three types of marketing research? Decide whether the following researches should be exploratory, descriptive, or casual, and briefly give your reasons.
The three types of marketing research is Exploratory Research, Descriptive Research, and Casual Research.
(1) Establishing the functional relationship between advertising and sales.
Exploratory Research (解释为什么是这个调研,自己写)
(2) Investigating consumer reactions to the idea of a new laundry detergent that prevents shrinkage in hot water.
Descriptive Research (解释为什么是这个调研,自己写)
(3) Identifying target market demographics for a shopping centre.
Casual Research (解释为什么是这个调研,自己写)
2.List the stages in the research process.
1) Defining the research objectives
2) Planning a research design
3) Planning a sample
4) Collecting the data
5) Analyzing the data
6) Formulating the conclusions and preparing the report
3.What is the Iceberg Principle?
(自己解释,可以百度搜索)
4.Give examples for categorical variable and continuous variable.
Categorical variable: (举例)
Continuous variable: (举例)
5.How to distingusih a dependent variable from an independent variable?
For example, the Relationship between sales and advertisement. The sales is dependent variable and advetisement is independent variable.(你重新写个类似的)
6.When should we conduct a qualitative research?
1) When it is difficult to develop specific and actionable descision statements or research objectives.
2) When the research objective is to develop an understanding of some phenomena in great detail and in much depth.
3) When the research objective is to learn how customers use a product in its natural setting or to learn how to express some concept in colloquial terms.
4) When some behavior the researcher is studying is particularly context-dependent—meaning the reasons something is liked or some behavior is performed depends very much on the particular situation surrounding the event.
5) When a fresh approach to studying some problem is needed. This is particularly the case when quantitative research has been less than satisfying.
7.Please explain the categories of qualitative research.
1) Focus Group Interview
2) Depth Interview
8.If a researcher wanted to conduct a focus group discussion with teenagers, what special consideration might be necessary?
If we conduct a focus group discussion with teenagers, first we should consider the Group Composition. We might be four boys and 4girls.The may come from the same school. Second, we should consider the Focus Group Moderator. We might invite an university student who have some experience on directing the meeting and very kind or patient.(李写的,改!)
9.What is a projective technique? How is it used? Please give an example to illustrate the use of a projective technique.
Projective technique is an indirect means of questioning enabling respondents to project beliefs and feelings onto a third party, an inanimate object, or a task situation.(后面的是举例,改掉!For example, when some tell a American the word “green”, he or she may be image the “gress” or “money”.)
Task 3 (Chapter 7)
1.Please explain two major sources of survey errors.
Two major sources of survey errors is Random sampling error and Systematic error. Random sampling error is a statistical fluctuation that occurs because of chance variation in the elements selected for a sample; Systematic error is error resulting from some imperfect aspect of the research design that causes respondent error or from a mistake in the execution of the research.
2.What are the sources of respondent error? Please illustrate.
Respondent error contains Nonresponse error and Response bias. (举例)
3.What are the sources of administrative error? Please illustrate.
Administrative error contains Data processing error, Sample selection error, Interviewer error and Interviewer cheating. (举例)
4.What type of communication medium would you use to conduct the following surveys? Why?
(1) Survey of the buying motives of industrial engineers.
Mail Questionnaire. Industrial Engineers is certain object. If we want to survey Industrial Engineers, go to their company and use mail questionnaire is a very convienct way.(你也可以写其他的方式,要改的。下面2.3.4也是一样的)
(2) Survey of the satisfaction levels of rental-car users.
Telephone Interviews. As a rental-car company, you usually require rental-car users fill in a form about some information, such as name, ID card number, telephone number and so on. So telephone interviews is a good choice for Survey of the satisfaction levels of rental-car users.
(3) Survey of viewers’ awareness of television commercial advertising.
Shopping Mall Intercepts. The television commercial advertising is a public media, everyone has their own opinion. There are a lot of people go to the shopping mall everday. So we can get the information more easily.
(4) Survey of top corporate executives.
Personal interview. As we all know, to get the mailbox of top corporate executives is not easily and to communicate through the telephone is also difficult. Their secretaire may reduce you telephone before you ansewr to the top corporate executives. Use the personal interview, you can gain the ansewr face-to-face and the ansewrs are always more correct.
Task 4 (Chapter 11)
1.Develop a checklist of things to consider in questionaire construction.
1) Avoid complexity: Simpler language is better
2) Avoid leading and loaded questions.
3) Avoid ambiguity: Be as specific as possible.
4) Avoid double-barreled items.
5) Avoid making assumptions.
6) Avoid burdensome questions that may tax the respondent’s memory.
7) Order bias.
2.Design several questions to measure how a person who has just been shown a television commercial might describe the comercial.
设计问卷
3.Design a short but complete questionaire to measure consumer satisfaction with a certain business or a certain product.
设计问卷
Task 5 (Chapter 12)
1.Why should we sample when doing a marketing research?
Sample is a subset, or some part, of a larger population. When doing a marketing research, we should consider the pragmatic reasons. Using the sample, we gain accurate and reliable results and destruction of test unit.
2.What are the stages in the selection of a sample?(书上355页流程表)
3.What are the techniques of nonprobability sampling? Give examples.
Nonprobability sampling is a sampling technique in which units of the sample are selected on the basis of personal judgement or convenience; the probability of any particular member of the population being choosen is unknown. (举例)
4.What are the techniques of probability sampling? Give examples.
Probability sampling is a sampling technique in which every member of the population has a known, nonzero probability of selection。(举例)
5.Outline the procedure you would use to select the following:(自己写)
(1) A simple random sample of 150 students at your university.
(2) A quota sample of 50 light users and 50 heavy users of beer in a shopping mall interception study.