Marketing Research That Pays Off: Case Histories of Marketing Research Leading to Success in the Marketplace (Haworth Marketing Resources) - Hardcover

Winston, William; Percy, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560249498 ISBN 13: 9781560249498

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

From Oreos, Jell-O, raisins, and milk to amusement parks, retail centers, ATMs, and mutual funds, the case studies presented in Marketing Research That Pays Off offer you insight into how actual companies have used market research to successfully solve marketing problems. Editor Larry Percy has collected a series of cases from consumer, service, and industrial marketing executives that provides a problem/solution look at how to address major marketing issues with marketing research.

The studies presented cover such topics as communications issues, new product introduction, brand equity, brand positioning, and sales analysis. Because they represent successful applications of marketing research to challenging questions, these cases offer a number of specific lessons. Throughout, Marketing Research That Pays Off shows you how to:

• use the right sample for reliable data
  
• reduce the time needed for traditionally multi-phased research
  
• avoid the pitfalls of short-term effects in tracking data
  
• deal with multinational research
  
• use attitude measures to help interpret sales data
  
• involve marketing management to ensure acceptance of results
  
• make effective use of small budgets

The format of each chapter allows the authors to pose a question or present a particular marketing problem and then take you step-by-step through the solution. Actual problems solved include how to improve upon a successful campaign, revitalize a failing retail center, avoid misunderstanding in conducting multinational research, use scanner data to help understand the package goods market, avoid being mislead by short-term effects in tracking data, learn what aspects of a package attract attention and what they communicate, and how to effectively reach both children and their parents with one message--all on a small budget.

It is the unique problem/solution approach to marketing research that makes Marketing Research That Pays Off especially valuable to all marketing research professionals and beginner- to mid-level marketing managers. In addition, the book's easy-to-read presentation of case studies makes it approachable and useful as a companion text for classes in marketing and marketing research.

About this title

About the Author:

Larry Percy is Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and an advertising communications consultant. He has worked for a number of leading advertising agencies in the United States, including Lintas and Young and Rubicam, and has taught marketing theory, advertising strategy, and advertising
research at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several other books on advertising and marketing communications and sits on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research. He is also a former Industry Director of
the Association for Consumer Research in the United States. Richard Elliott is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research, Warwick Business School, and prior to this was Professor of Marketing at the University of Exeter. He has worked in brand management with a number of multinationals and was
formerly account manager at the international advertising agency Norman, Craig and Kummel. He has published articles in numerous journals and taught at Lancaster University, the London Business School, and the ESSEC in Paris. His research interests include socio-cultural aspects of advertising,
dysfunctional consumer behaviour, and consumption and self-identity issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1560249498
• ISBN 13: 9781560249498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286