Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Marketing research

Marketing research is a form of business research and is generally divided into two categories: consumer market research and business-to-business market research, and objective identification, collection, analysis, which was previously known as industrial marketing research. 

Consumer marketing research studies the buying habits of individual people while business-to-business marketing research investigates the markets for products sold by one business to another. The field of consumer marketing research as a statistical science was pioneered by Arthur Nielsen with the founding of the ACNielsen Company in.

Consumer market research is a form of applied sociology that concentrates on understanding the behaviors’, whims and preferences, of consumers in a market-based economy, and aims to understand the effects and comparative success of marketing campaigns. 

Thus marketing research is the systematic and dissemination of information for the purpose of assisting management in decision making related to the identification and opportunities in marketing. The goal of marketing research is to identify and assess how changing elements of the marketing mix impacts customer behavior.

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