Course details
Sound marketing decisions rely on the availability of market information and market intelligence to develop strategy, to decide tactics and to measure performance.One of the key roles of marketing professionals should be to ensure the availability of relevant and up to date information on which decisions can be made with confidence.
On successful completion of the course delegates will be able to:
- Identify information needs.
- Review existing and secondary sources of information.
- Understand the components of a market intelligence.
- Build competitor profiles system.
- Plan a market survey.
- Select appropriate methodologies.
- Use the internet to source and build market data.
- Use market information as part of the planning process.
- Understand the ten steps of a market research project.
- Write and design an effective research brief.
- Manage your relationship with external agencies.
- Analyse the data outputs.
- Draw conclusions and make recommendations.
Overview
- When to use an online survey, whether focus groups would be better suited, could telephone interviews help, are one-to-one interviews needed?
- How to search more efficiently for existing published data - what can be found for free - or nearly-free?
- How to critically evaluate a questionnaire someone else has designed or how to improve your own questionnaire?
- ow to use the data to support marketing decisions.
- Identifying the information needs of the organisation.
- Specifying information needs in a clear and digestible manner.
- Using the internet and library resources to locate existing information.
- Primary data collection via fieldwork.
- Uses and applications for market intelligence.
Eligibility / Requirements
Any marketer seeking to improve their organisation’s market and economic performance including those with specific market research or competitor intelligence responsibilities.
About ISM Training
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