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Desk research

The chapter is split into two sections: the first dealing with the uses and practices of desk research - what is desk research, what it can do, who undertakes it and in what circumstances; the second covering the all-important question of sources of...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Nigel Newson-Smith

August 1, 1986

Problem solving in industrial marketing research in the Middle East

The paper presents the practical difficulties that an industrial researcher faces when undertaking a survey in the Middle Bast. The techniques and the approach are overall the same as in the West, but the task is that much harder. Desk research is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Authors: George V. Vassiliou, Costas Kaimakis

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1986

Researching the market for new publications

In launching new publications use can be made of desk research, qualitative research and quantitative research. Desk research tends to be used purely to help set advertisement rates, and make estimates of circulation/readership. Existing data sources...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Nigel Spackman

June 15, 1981

Application of primary surveys and desk research to media planning

This paper is to outline and illustrate where and to what extent market research can become a valuable tool of media planning; it will attempt to describe the basic instruments of media research, the methods applied in compiling this research...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Friedrich A. Rode

June 15, 1980

Research report on an investigation of the do-it-yourself market

This research was commissioned in order to provide someindications of the attitudes and directions of customerswithin the DIY market and also to provide some creativeinput in the form of ideas generated by those personsinterviewed.In addition, the...

Catalogue: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection

Author: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive

September 1, 1975

Researching research the market for TV commercials pre-testing

The Gallup Poll carried out a survey of market researchers early this year. A sample of 54 market research managers from leading advertisers and advertising agencies were interviewed. The objectives of the survey were as follows: 1. To obtain an...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: William Gregory

June 15, 1969