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Summary: Marketing Research: An Integrated Approach, Third Edition, is invaluable for anyone studying marketing research at a degree or diploma level. The author is the lead examiner for modules in the professional qualifications of the Market Research Society and the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the content of the book has been developed to fully support the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Marketing Information and Research Professional Certificate module and The Market Research Society's Principles of Market and Social Research and Information Diploma module. The book places research in the bigger picture of marketing and demonstrates how an understanding of marketing research is a key requirement of any effective marketing professional. The text integrates the key concepts and techniques of marketing research with both the management of customer information from customer databases along with the monitoring of user-generated content appearing on online social networks. Marketing Research is written in a clear and accessible style using many examples, real-life case histories and discussions of current issues in marketing research and customer information management, making it ideal for supporting the delivery of single semester modules on marketing research.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The role of marketing research and customer informationin decision making Chapter 2 The marketing research process Chapter 3 Secondary data and customer databases Chapter 4 Collecting observation data and monitoring online user-generated contents Chapter 5 Collecting and analysing qualitative data Chapter 6 Collecting quantitative data Chapter 7 Designing questionnaires Chapter 8 Sampling methods Chapter 9 Analysing quantitative data Chapter 10 Presenting the research results Marketing research in action: case histories Case 1: Lynx - launching a new brand Case 2: Sony Ericsson - understanding the mobile phone market Case 3: AIR MILES - researching advertising effectiveness Case 4: The Metro - newspaper media research and understanding the reader Case 5: Birmingham airport - researching customer satisfaction Case 6: Gu - establishing a community for research Case 7: English Rugby - researching participation Case 8: Malta and MTV - researching attitudes Case 9: Allied Domecq - researching lifestyles Case 10: Dove - researching beauty for a communications campaign Current issues in marketing research Issue 1: Marketing research versus customer insight Issue 2: Merging marketing research with customer databases Issue 3: Observation and surveillance cameras Issue 4: Declining response rates Issue 5: Challenges of business-to-business research Issue 6: Difficulties in achieving representative samples Issue 7: Research and social media Issue 8: Mulit-mode interviewing Issue 9: Using technology for data collection Issue 10: Clients going direct to respondents Issue 11: International research Issue 12: The repsondents' view of resesarch Appendix 1 Statistical tables Appendix 2 Snap Getting Started Guide Glossary Index