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"In 1992, over 100,000 focus groups were conducted in the United States. In an era when business survival depends on finding a market niche and pleasing the customer, focus groups are a vital method of testing new products, services, advertising, and packaging and an indispensable way to elicit attitudes, preferences, habits, and suggestions directly from the customer." "Thomas L. Greenbaum has been a leader in focus group research for more than twenty...

Why do businesses use market research and segmentation and what does that mean? What are the benefits they bring to your business success and what are the difficulties involved in implementing these strategies? This informative program provides clear explanations of marketing research and segmentation, quantitative and qualitative research, and highlights the importance of sampling techniques and effective questionnaire design. Viewers will also get...

"The focus group, over the course of the last century, became an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sold their products and policies with few areas of life, from salad dressing to health care legislation to our favorite TV shows, left untouched by moderators questioning controlled groups about what they liked and didn't. Divining Desire is the first-ever popular survey of this topic. In a lively, sweeping survey, Liza Featherstone...

Meeting of the Minds shows managers how they can create dynamic, market-based decision-making mechanisms that lead to competitive advantage. It offers a new strategic approach to marketing based on the simple principle that market leadership is attained by transforming information into shared knowledge. This book is a must-read for anyone with a stake in his or her organization's ambitions for market leadership: marketers, CIOs, strategic planners,...

Demography as a discipline is now at the point where its relevance to business decision making is indisputable--and top business management knows this. People who lack an understanding of state-of-the-art demographic techniques, and who cannot adapt to new ways of thinking prompted by demography and demographers, will find themselves significantly disadvantaged in today's competitive business environment. Pol and Thomas thus provide practitioners...

This follow-up title to Guerrilla Marketing Research, simplifies the benefits and clarifies the many misconceptions about market research, and shows how small companies can use marketing research to improve their current business as well as generate new business.--[book jacket].

Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy looks at how digitisation is radically changing the way we buy and experience products and services. Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity, including the need to design and scale future business models to better fit 'lived lives', creating value as well as increasing worth so that new markets can emerge. The book provides...