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Key Steps Involved in The Market Research Process That You Must Consider

Sep 18, 2018

Market research methods are the first thing on which almost all organizations cut their marketing budgets. Isn’t this surprising? Yes, but it’s a fact since every market research process demands an investment of time as well as monetary investments. But this budget-cutting is obviously not a wise decision as the research process helps organizations to identify, analyze, and evaluate business decisions. In fact, the market research process acts as the backbone of informed and wise business decisions. Therefore, it should be executed by organizations to attain the desired output. Recent research also proves that if the research process is being carried out in a proper manner by opting for the appropriate types of market research methods suiting the specific organization’s needs, then it doesn’t have to be expensive.

research process involves the extraction of details to develop a fool-proof plan for research. These details are extracted in various ways such as interviewing the focus group and drafting appropriate research questionnaires.

Data collection for research

This is the most important and risky step of the market research process. Chances of mistakes commitment are maximum at this stage. For example, if the respondent is not available in the survey method of data collection then there would be discrepancies in data leading to inaccurate results.

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Implementation of a plan

After the data is assimilated and analyzed, the next step is of implementation. This is again a very crucial step because if the management fails to execute or implement the plan of research properly, it will fail to meet the desired outcome – and then the need to revise the market research process arises.

To follow the steps in the research process properly, there is a need to embrace various types of research methods that are accurate. This can further help in securing the expected results out of the research process. There are basically two types of methods. Let’s explore what are they:

Types of Market Research Methods

Primary research

The primary research method is also known as field research and involves the first-hand gathering of data from primary sources. Such types of methods are meant for a specific purpose. The data for primary research is collected by conducting surveys, focus groups, interviews, test markets, and user groups. Primary research provides a much higher degree of control over the nature and amount of data collected.

Secondary research methods

Secondary research provides valuable insights and at a much faster rate and lower cost. There are several sources of secondary research like competitor benchmarks, sales data, commercial data, government publications, and statistics.

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