Review Exercises

Using Consumer Panels for Marketing Research

Consumer panels are a key tool in marketing research, widely used for their cost-effectiveness and ability to provide continuous insights. Instead of relying solely on one-time studies, companies often use consumer panels to gather ongoing feedback from selected customers. In this activity, your students will get a good understanding of consumer panels and how they work, as well as why they are widely used and what are their risks and limitations.

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Digging Deeper with Consumer Motivation

This activity is all about drilling down on consumer needs to explore the range of underlying motivations for behavior. Students are presented with a series of consumer statements and their task is to look beyond the top-level and to dig deeper into a fuller set of motivations and needs.

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Using Different Bases for Market Segmentation

In this activity, students need to segment consumers – based on their comments, attitudes, and behaviors – using demographic, psychographic, and behavioral segmentation bases, to construct three different segmentation structures. Then they need to determine which segmentation structure is the best from a marketing perspective.

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Understanding Marketing Terms

This activity is for students near the end of studying Marketing 101 (or similar) as it poses a number of clarification and understanding questions relating to research, product mix, consumer needs, and segmentation = a mix of topics, rather than one set topic area. It is also a supplementary activity that leads into Using Different Bases for Market Segmentation.

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