Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 Time is short, study?

Quotable

“What about endogeneity?”

Ask this question often.
Several times a day, at least.
Endogeneity is a fancy term for confusing cause and effect. For not being clear about causation and correlation.
It's one reason why smart people make so many mistakes. We think A leads to B, so more A gets more B. While A and B may have been related in the past, though, it's not at all clear that improving A is going to do anything about B.
There is, for example, an extraordinarily high correlation between per capita cheese consumption and the risk of being strangled by your bedsheets while you sleep:
Chart
That doesn't mean that eating less cheese is going to help you not die in bed.
  ~Seth Godin


                                                        
                                                            
SEMII

Ordeal by cheque



Obtain market information to prepare a market analysis of a sport/event’s target market(s). The analysis should include a clear explanation of the market segmentation, target-market focus, a market forecast, and a description of each target-market segment (statistics about the number of potential customers, annual growth rate, annual spending, and market value).

Key components of the market analysis should include:

  1. Target segment description
  2. Target segment’s needs (Why do fans/customers need the product/service?)
  3. Distribution channels (Where do fans/customers go to obtain product/service?)
  4. Buying habits (What factors influence the target market to buy?)
  5. Communication channels (How will you communicate with the fans/customers?)



Quick Breakdown of the assorted boardgames in cabinet
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Standardized Measurement and assessment

Scales and Attitude Measurement

Attitude Measurement

Levels of measurement and scale

Measurement of Variables

Attitude Scales

Scaling

Types of Attitude Scale



Verify you know what we went over:
a. Explain the use of scaling in marketing research.
b. Distinguish between rating and ranking scales.
c. Distinguish between nominal data and ordinal scales.
d. Discuss when ordinal scales are used.
e. Describe characteristics of interval rating scales.
f. Distinguish between interval and ratio scales.
g. Distinguish between continuous and itemized rating scales.
h. Discuss types of itemized rating scales (e.g., Likert, semantic differential, Stapel’s Scale, and multi dimensional scaling).
i. Explain advantages/disadvantages of the types of itemized rating scales.
j. Explain types of ranking scales (i.e., paired comparison, forced choice, and comparative scale).






                                                                                                                                                    
MARKETING

Inside DeBeers - concerning distribution, what do you think?



Information Management Lap2: Get the Facts Straight  


Seek and Find - LAP Assessment


What's the Problem? - LAP



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Poorly defined objectives

Slideshow - Marketing Research

Research objectives….phones number v other numbers

4.12
Using the marketing research paper obtained from the Social Science Research Network at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalbrowse&journal_id=334640, determine what method(s) the author used to collect the data. Identify the advantages/disadvantages associated with that data-collection method. Determine additional ways the author could have collected the data. Discuss your ideas with a classmate.

Qualitative Data Collection techniques

23 advantages of Online Surveys


Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Welcome back! Sports Banquet tonight!

Quotable

Just words

How about, just bullets, just diseases, just starvation?
The whole "sticks and stones" canard is really dangerous. When a stone gives you a bruise, it's entirely possible you will completely heal. But when a torrent of words undermine your view of what's possible, you might never recover.
Words matter. They can open doors, light a way and make a difference.
  ~ Seth Godin

                                                        
                                                            
Ordeal by cheque






Obtain market information to prepare a market analysis of a sport/event’s target market(s). The analysis should include a clear explanation of the market segmentation, target-market focus, a market forecast, and a description of each target-market segment (statistics about the number of potential customers, annual growth rate, annual spending, and market value).



Key components of the market analysis should include:

  1. Target segment description
  2. Target segment’s needs (Why do fans/customers need the product/service?)
  3. Distribution channels (Where do fans/customers go to obtain product/service?)
  4. Buying habits (What factors influence the target market to buy?)
  5. Communication channels (How will you communicate with the fans/customers?)










7 ways to evaluate your marketing plan






Marketing Audit Checklist

Evaluating your Products and Marketing Plan

Performance Analysis

Look to the right….a step by step instruction on how to write a full plan
Yes, we will hit most aspects of it

ROI

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  1. Explain the use of standards in evaluating the performance of a marketing plan.
  2. Discuss the frequency with which marketing plan performance should be evaluated.
  3. Describe actions to take when performance and objectives differ.
  4. Demonstrate procedures for evaluating the performance of a marketing plan.

Practice Tests


How to create a Movie Marketing Plan




Sports Marketing Plan


Quick Breakdown of the assorted boardgames in cabinet












                                                                                                                                                    
MARKETING

Inside DeBeers - concerning distribution, what do you think?




Information Management Lap2: Get the Facts Straight  




FRONTLINE - Merchants of Cool - Student Feedback/Discussion

Questions @ bottom



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How to conduct Marketing Research




Online focus Groups


4.08 - Tech in MIM
Prepare a list of ways that your company can use the Internet to assist with the marketing-information management function. Share the list with a classmate.

On Google/Bing look up
“online focus groups for students”

And see the results

4.09 Describe the regulation of marketing-information management

Online reasearch guidelines:

CASRO codes of conduct

Implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches

4.10



Seek and Find - LAP Assessment

What's the Problem? - LAP



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