customer insights
a collection of trends in consumer behavior, data, and feedback that helps businesses deeply understand their customers and their purchasing decisions.
marketing information system
a system for gathering and analyzing information and data to help make marketing decisions
Internal databases
data that the company owns
Competitive marketing intelligence
when a company collects data about other companies, business, industries, etc. for the purpose of being more competitive by understanding their competitors and how to be better
Marketing research
taking info from “target markets and customers” and using them to get an insight on your business
Exploratory research
research that determines the project that needs to be solved
Descriptive research
research meant to answer ‘what, where, when and how’ questions
casual research
research that shows cause and effect relationships
Secondary data
data taken by a second party
Primary data
data that has been collected by the researcher
Observational research
research where you observe the subject in their “natural setting”
Ethnographic research
data collected that is used to determine things about a specific group of people
survey research
data collected through a survey
Experimental Research
research trying to prove a hypothesis (usually has control and non control)
Focus group interviewing
planned discussion with a small group of people talking about a topic
Online Marketing research
research conducted using available data online
Online focus groups
online, small group discussions guided by one person
Behavioral targeting
looking at a customers web history to see interest in products
sample
a small part or quantity to show what the whole group is like
Customer relationship management
combination of data used to identify customer needs
Marketing analytics
studying data to identify if a product was successful
big data
Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.