Market research (OCR GCSE Business): Flashcards

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2.2 Market research
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Purpose of market research

Identify and understand customer needs

Primary research definition

Research carried out by the business itself, specific to them

Four primary research methods

Questionnaires, Interviews, Trialling, Focus groups

What are questionnaires?

Set of questions given to customers for market research

Key feature of interviews

Face-to-face conversations with customers

Who tests products in trialling

Small group of customers before product launch

Secondary research definition

Research carried out by other people or businesses

How often UK census is conducted

Every ten years

Census surveys which population

Entire UK population

Benefit of websites for research

Free and easy way to look at competitors

What is internal data?

Data collected by the business in the past

Qualitative data definition

Opinions/feedback not in numerical form

Quantitative data definition

Statistics in numerical form

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