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Enables marketers to

• predict how consumers will react


• in the marketplace
• to promotional messages

• understand why they make the purchase


decisions they make

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Marketers utilize CR
• to design marketing strategies
• and develop promotional messages
• … i.e. to influence consumers more effectively

Types
• Qualitative vs. Quantitative

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• Subjective data that is not easily coded into
numbers
• Words and feelings
• Fewer subjects
• Deeper level

Useful when..
• Marketing needs answers relating to motivation,
emotion, etc.

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• Focus Group Interview

• In-depth Interview

• Observation / Participant Observation

• Projective Technique

•…
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• An Example of Mixed Research Design
• three rounds of qualitative research and three rounds of
quantitative research rotationally in order to gain a
deeper understanding.

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Focus Group Interview
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• Focus Group: a group of people who
discuss a subject under the direction of a
moderator.
Popular in Industry
• Relatively quick, easy, inexpensive
• A first-hand glimpse of potential
customers
Not used so much in Academia
• Lacks in-depth
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TV Commercial – Snickers, FGI
(Participants: Four Creatures)

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FGI (one-way mirror glass)

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As a facilitator, the moderator should know what questions
to ask and prepare a game plan (questionnaire). 17
Participants should be relatively homogeneous with
respects to age, gender, culture, etc. 18
FGI Participants should be relatively
homogeneous with respects to culture.
Malaysia is multi-cultural.
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Focus Group Research - Steps

1. Define objectives of study


2. Develop questions for discussion - Moderator
Guide
3. Recruit participants
4. Conduct Session with a moderator
5. Analyze and report results to decision makers

Results can be misleading if the focus group


interview is not conducted properly.
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• Make Key FGI Questionnaires (Protocol)
• Think as You are a Moderator
• Indicate Your Own Topic
• Create FGI Questionnaires with your pair
with the topic you chose
• Each pair will exchange their
questionnaires to check for improvement

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