Tutorial Sessions
A total of eight (8) hours are set aside for this course and they form a part of your learning process as you have an opportunity to receive face-to-face interaction with your informal facilitator and to receive answers to questions or classifications which you may have. Also, you ...
Tutorial Sessions
A total of eight (8) hours are set aside for this course and they form a part of your learning process as you have an opportunity to receive face-to-face interaction with your informal facilitator and to receive answers to questions or classifications which you may have. Also, you may contact your tutorial facilitator by telephone or e-mail.
As an open and distant learner, you are expected to prepare ahead of time by studying the relevant study units, write your questions so as to gain maximum benefit from tutorial sessions. Information about the location and time schedule for facilitation will be available at your study centre.
Note that tutorial sessions are flexible arrangements between you and your tutorial facilitator. You will need to contact your study centre to arrange the time schedule for the sessions. You will also need to obtain your tutorial facilitator’s phone number and e-mail address.
Tutorial sessions are optional however; participating in them provides tremendous benefits because they provide a forum for interaction and group discussions which will maximise the isolation you may experience as an open and distant learner.
Facilitation
This is a learning process that takes place both within and outside of tutorial sessions. Your tutorial facilitator guides your learning by doing the following things.
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1.0. Providing answers to your questions during tutorial sessions on phone or by e-mail
2.0. Coordinating group discussions
3.0. Providing feedback on your assignments
4.0. Posing questions to confirm learning outcomes
5.0. Coordinating, marking and recording your assignments/examination score(s)
6.0. Monitoring your progress.
English language is the language of instruction for this course. The course material is available both in print and in CD. It is also on the National Open University if Nigeria website. However, on your part, you are to prepare ahead of time by studying and writing your questions so as to maximally benefit from facilitation. Information about the location and time of facilitation will be available at your study course.
This is a flexible arrangement between you and your tutorial facilitator. You should contact your tutorial facilitator whenever:
1.0. You do not understand any part of the study unit
2.0. You have difficulty with the self assessment exercises
3.0. You have a question or a problem with an assignment, with your tutorial facilitator’s comments on an assignment or with the grading of an assignment.
Counselling
Counselling is your part of learning which helps to facilitate the learning process. This service is available to you at two levels-academic and personal. At the study centre, student counsellors are available to provide guidance for personal issues that may affect your studies. In addition, your tutorial facilitators and study centre manager can assist you with questions on academic matters such as course materials, grades, facilitation, etc. Endeavour to have the telephont
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Chapter 4- slide 1
Chapter Four
Managing Marketing Information to
Gain Customer Insights
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Learning Objectives
•Marketing Information and Customer Insights
•Assessing Marketing Information Needs
•Developing Marketing Information
•Marketing Research
•Analyzing Marketing Information
•Distributing and Using Marketing Information
•Other Marketing Information Considerations
Topic Outline
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Marketing Information and
Customer Insights
•Fresh and deep insights into customers’
needs and wants
•Difficult to obtain
–Not obvious
–Customers unsure of their behavior
•Not derived from more information but
better information and more effective use of
existing information
Customer Insights
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Marketing Information and
Customer Insights
•Companies are forming customer
insights teams
–Include all company functional areas
–Use insights to create more value for their
customers
–Customer control could be a problem
Customer Insights
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Marketing Information and
Customer Insights
Marketing information system (MIS)
consists of people and procedures
for:
–Assessing informational needs
–Developing needed information
–Helping decision makers use the information
to generate customer insights
Marketing Information Systems (MIS)
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Assessing Marketing Information
Needs
MIS provides information to the company’s
marketing and other managers and
external partners such as suppliers,
resellers, and marketing service agencies
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Assessing Marketing Information
Needs
•Balancing what the information users
would like to have against what they need
and what is feasible to offer
Characteristics of a Good MIS
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Developing Marketing Information
Internal databases are electronic
collections of consumer and market
information obtained from data
sources within the company network
Internal Data
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Developing Marketing Information
Marketing intelligence is the systematic
collection and analysis of publicly available
information about consumers, competitors,
and developments in the marketplace
Marketing Intelligence
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Developing Marketing Information
Marketing Research
Marketing research is the
systematic design, collection,
analysis, and reporting of data
relevant to a specific marketing
situation facing an organization
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Developing Marketing Information
•Outlines sources of existing data
•Spells out the specific research
approaches, contact methods,
sampling plans, and instruments to
gather data
Marketing Research
Developing the Research Plan
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Developing Marketing Information
Secondary data consists of information that
already exists somewhere, having been
collected for another purpose
Primary data consists of information
gathered for the special research plan
Marketing Research
Developing the Research Plan
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Developing Marketing Information
Observational research involves gathering
primary data by observing relevant people,
actions, and situations
Ethnographic research involves sending
trained observers to watch and interact
with consumers in their natural
environment
Market Research
Research Approaches
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Developing Marketing Information
Survey research is the most widely used
method and is best for descriptive
information—knowledge, attitudes,
preferences, and buying behavior
•Flexible
•People can be unable or unwilling to answer
•People may give misleading or pleasing answers
•Privacy concerns
Market Research
Research Approaches
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Developing Marketing Information
Experimental research is best for gathering
causal information—cause-and-effect
relationships
Market Research
Research Approaches
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Developing Marketing Information
•Focus Groups
–Six to 10 people with a trained
moderator
–Challenges
•Expensive
•Difficult to generalize from small group
•Consumers not always open and honest
Marketing Research
Contact Methods
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Developing Marketing Information
Sample is a segment of the population
selected for marketing research to
represent the population as a whole
–Who is to be surveyed?
–How many people should be surveyed?
–How should the people be chosen?
Marketing Research
Sampling Plan
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Developing Marketing Information
•Closed-end questions include all possible
answers, and subjects make choices among
them
–Provide answers that are easier to interpret and
tabulate
•Open-end questions allow respondents to
answer in their own words
–Useful in exploratory research
Marketing Research
Research Instruments—Questionnaires
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Analyzing and Using Marketing
Information
•CRM consists of sophisticated software and
analytical tools that integrate customer
information from all sources, analyze it in
depth, and apply the results to build
stronger customer relationships
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
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Distributing and Using Marketing
Information
Information distribution involves entering
information into databases and making it
available in a time-usable manner
•Intranet provides information to
employees and other stakeholders
•Extranet provides information to key
customers and suppliers