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Marketing Research That Won’t
Break the Bank
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Marketing Research
That Won’t
Break the Bank
A Practical Guide to Getting
the Information You Need
Alan R. Andreasen
Foreword by William A. Smith
The Second Edition of Cheap But GoodMarketing Research
Prepared with the assistance of the
Academy for Educational Development
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Copyright © 2002 by Alan R. Andreasen.
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Andreasen, Alan R., date.
Marketing research that won’t break the bank: apractical guide to getting the information
you need/Alan R. Andreasen; foreword by William A. Smith.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The Jossey-Bass nonprofit and public management series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7879-6419-0 (alk. paper)
1. Marketing research. I. Title. II. Series.
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Contents
Foreword
William A. Smith
xiii
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxiii
The Author
xxv
Part One: Planning a Low-Cost Research Program
1. Myths of MarketingResearch
3
Research Priests and the Low-Budget Manager • Moving
Forward • Organization of the Book • Concluding Comments
2. Planning a Research Program
17
Framing the Research Problem • Looking for Opportunity
• Research Planning • Serendipitous Research: Recognizing
Research Opportunities as You Go • The Decision Opportunity
3. Evaluating Individual Research Projects
43Setting Budgets • Decision-Based Research Budgeting
• When to Resist Research
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CONTENTS
4. Backward Marketing Research
60
How Research Goes Wrong • Turning the Process on Its Head
• Conclusion
Part Two: Alternative Low-Cost Research Techniques
5. Using Available Data
75
Archives • Internal Archives • External Archives• Conclusion
6. Systematic Observation
107
Collecting Natural Observations • Controlling the Quality
of Natural Observations
7. Low-Cost Experimentation
119
Experimental Design • Types of Experiments • Conclusion
8. Low-Cost Survey Designs
142
Survey Design • Low-Cost Sampling • Other Alternatives
for Asking Questions
Part Three: Making Low-Cost Research Good...
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