Market Research

The wisdom from Sun Tzu's world-famous book, The Art of War, has been widely applied by many top-class CEOs to drive their businesses to success. One of the quotes from his book reads, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” That translates to business as, “If you know yourself, your customers, and your competitors, you need not fear about your business anymore.” But how can entrepreneurs and business owners do that? The answer is market research.

For a company to embrace market research as a facilitator of change, it must be willing to take the approach that makes the most impact on its organization. In this guide, author Anne Beall shares her unique approach for conducting strategic market research. With more than 25 years of experience, Beall details the strategic principles she has developed that impact the way in which market research can inspire and change an organization. It all begins with the following steps: Identifying the strategic questions that will help a business; Using the right research techniques to answer these ...

To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process, which is why it often doesn’t get done.

Qualitative Research is the essential guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study. This fourth edition features new material covering mixed methods, action research, arts-based research, online data sources, and the latest in data analysis, including data analysis software packages as well as narrative and poetic analysis strategies. A new section offers multiple ways of presenting qualitative research findings. The accessible, jargon-free style makes this audiobook ideal for both novice and experienced researchers.

Now, for the first time, Seth Godin offers the core of his marketing wisdom in one compact, accessible, and timeless package. This Is Marketing shows you how to do work you're proud of, whether you're a tech start-up founder, a small-business owner, or part of a large corporation. Great marketers don't use consumers to solve their company's problem; they use marketing to solve other people's problems. Their tactics rely on empathy, connection, and emotional labor instead of attention-stealing ads. When done right, marketing seeks to make change in the world.

To reach today’s customers and influence their purchases, marketers and market researchers need to understand and harness the power of applied behavior psychology and behavior economics to break through these nonconscious filters and drive purchase behaviors - a process called behavior design. In Marketing to Mindstates, Will Leach, founder of TriggerPoint Design, a leading behavior research and design consultancy, demystifies this nonconscious filter and explains how to bypass it, introducing listeners to temporary moments of influence called mindstates.

An accessible and practical toolkit that teams and companies in all industries can use to increase their customer base and market share, this book walks listeners through the process of creating and executing their own custom-made growth hacking strategy. It is a must listen for any marketer, entrepreneur, innovator or manager looking to replace wasteful big bets and "spaghetti-on-the-wall" approaches with more consistent, replicable, cost-effective, and data-driven results.

Caroline’s mattress had nothing to do with her untimely death at the age of 28—this, she wants Tempur-Pedic’s market research representative to know. But as she reflects on her first ever mattress purchase and their interview progresses, Caroline dives into the circumstances and decisions that led her and Nicholas—her boyfriend, 10 years her senior and prone to sleeping on the floor—to that particular bed in that particular shopping plaza.

Few management ideas have spread so far and so wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Created by author and loyalty guru Fred Reichheld, companies across the spectrum have adopted it - from industrial giants such as Mercedes-Benz and Cummins Engine to Silicon Valley sweethearts such as Apple and Google to digital innovators like Warby Parker and Peloton.

If you're aspiring to satisfy your customers, then you’re aspiring to mediocrity. That's the fascinating premise of From Impressed to Obsessed, a book that will fundamentally change how you think about creating a successful, beloved business. Acclaimed customer experience expert Jon Picoult explains why building customer loyalty requires leaving indelible positive impressions on everyone you work with - not just shaping their experiences, but also shaping their memories.

An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of marketing. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective marketing strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, managers, and educators. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics, including branding, product development, pricing strategies, and more. Besides covering the core marketing concepts, we show you how to leverage the ...

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of conducting a low cost market research in your business To be successful a business must know its market. Marketing research is simply an orderly, objective way of learning about people - the people who buy from you or might buy from you. This Guide provides an overview of what market research is and how it's done. It introduces inexpensive techniques that you can apply to gather facts about your customers and the people you'd like to have for customers. My name is Meir Liraz and I'm the author of this book. According ...

Strategy consultant Robbie Kellman Baxter has been helping companies excel in this business environment for more than a decade. Now, in The Forever Transaction, she reveals all her secrets. Whatever industry you're in, Baxter provides the inspiration, tools, and insight you need to build and execute a business model that will leave your competition in the dust.

User Tested delivers an eye-opening and compelling treatment of putting customers back at the center of your business model. In this book, you'll discover why the company that offers the best customer experience always wins and that real, three-dimensional people can't be reduced to data points on a graph.

In this guide, we’re going to walk you through the what, why, and how of becoming an influencer. You’ll discover a step-by-step process for finding your tribe, building an audience, and even monetizing that audience

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One of the hardest things marketers have to do is pick a niche to market in. This choice can make or break your efforts to make money online, and far too many marketers make the often fatal mistake of leaping into the weight-loss or make-money-online niches.