Gathering Information and Scanning the Environment pptx

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Gathering Information and Scanning the Environment

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Chapter Questions

• What are the components of a modern

marketing information system?

• What are useful internal records?

• What is involved in a marketing intelligence

system?

• What are the key methods for tracking and

identifying opportunities in the macro environment?

• What are some important macro environment

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What is a Marketing Information System (MIS)?

A marketing information system consists of

people, equipment, and procedures to gather,

sort, analyze, evaluate, and distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to

marketing decision makers

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Table 3.1 Information Needs Probes

• What decisions do you regularly make?

• What information do you need to make these

decisions?

• What information do you regularly get?

• What special studies do you periodically request?

• What information would you want that you are

not getting now?

• What are the four most helpful improvements that could be made in the present marketing

information system?

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Internal Records and Marketing Intelligence

• Order-to-payment cycle

• Sales information system

• Databases, warehousing, data mining

• Marketing intelligence system

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Steps to Improve Marketing

Intelligence

• Train sales force to scan for new developments

• Motivate channel members to share

intelligence

• Network externally

• Utilize a customer advisory panel

• Utilize government data sources

• Collect customer feedback online

• Purchase information

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Table 3.2 Secondary Commercial Data Sources

• Nielsen

• MRCA

• Information Resources

• SAMI/Burke

• Simmons

• Arbitron

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Sources of Competitive Information

• Independent customer goods and service

review forums

• Distributor or sales agent feedback sites

• Combination sites offering customer reviews and expert opinions

• Customer complaint sites

• Public blogs

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Needs and Trends

• Fads

• Trends

• Megatrends

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Trends Shaping the Business Landscape

• Profound shifts in

centers of economic activity

• Increases in

public-sector activity

• Change in consumer

landscape

• Technological

connectivity

• Scarcity of well-trained

• Increase in demand for natural resources

• Emergence of new global industry

structures

• Ubiquitous access to information

• Management shifts from art to science

• Increase in scrutiny of

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Environmental Forces

• Demographic

• Economic

• Socio-cultural

• Natural

• Technological

• Political-legal

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Population and Demographics

• Population growth

• Population age mix

• Ethnic markets

• Educational groups

• Household patterns

• Geographical shifts

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Economic Environment

• Income Distribution

• Savings, Debt, and Credit

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Social-Cultural Environment

• Views of themselves

• Views of others

• Views of organizations

• Views of society

• Views of nature

• Views of the universe

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Table 3.3 Most Popular American Leisure Activities

• Reading

• TV Watching

• Spending time with

family

• Going to movies

• Fishing

• Computer activities

• Gardening

• Renting movies

• Walking

• Exercise

• Listening to music

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Natural Environment

• Shortage of raw materials

• Increased energy costs

• Anti-pollution pressures

• Governmental protections

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Keys to Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia

• Consumer Value Positioning

• Calibration of Consumer Knowledge

• Credibility of Product Claims

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Technological Environment

• Pace of change

• Opportunities for innovation

• Varying R&D budgets

• Increased regulation of change

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