Marketing Skills 201 - Conducting Market Research: Marketing Opportunities

We will examine three fundamental activities: Identifying opportunities; conducting market research; and understanding consumer behavior. We will take a closer look at the process to seek out attractive opportunities that a corporation, an individual, or a non-profit organization would undertake. Once viable opportunities have been identified, they are then analyzed individually. This analysis is accomplished through market research. Through market research, we can profile our potential customers and segment them into groups. Finally, we will look at the notion of consumer behavior and examine how needs and wants and buying behavior can impact our marketing efforts.