Marketing Research Essentials

Marketing research essentials arms students with a practical approach grounded in professional experience. McDaniel and Gates merge real-life, insider experiences from the industry, quantitative methods, and market research applications for comprehensive use in the classroom. This world-leading market research text teaches students how to become effective consumers of market research and how to use research to make critical business decisions.

The Seventh Edition encourages students to view marketing research through the eyes of a manager. It illustrates concepts with actual data, real-world case problems, and methods tried and tested in the real world.

Highlights:
* Emphasis on marketing research as meaning much more than computing sample size or conducting a focus group.
* New attitude scales coverage.
* Fresh examples and mini-cases featuring a broad range of contemporary companies, including those from top health care market research providers.
* Inclusion of the latest technology products to further engage students.
* Opening vignettes for each chapter and boxed inserts that provide relevant, real-world material from the mass media.
* Enhanced "making it Work" features where concepts are demonstrated and fully explained.