Marketing Research Essential

When it comes to putting you on the frontlines of the marketing research industry, McDaniel and Gates stand out from the crowd. These authors deliver the hottest trends, insights, and advances in the field, with a focus on how marketing research is practiced today. Based on their successful "Marketing Research, 6th Edition", this paperback text offers the same user oriented, real world focus, and cutting edge content in a more streamlined format. The authors are wired to the marketing research industry. Unlike many other marketing research texts, "Marketing Research Essentials" provides a real world view of the field from authors who are industry insiders. Together, they bring more than 40 years of marketing research experience to this edition. There is a strong focus on how to use research: McDaniel and Gates focus on using and analyzing market research results, rather than actually doing the market research. It presents a real world perspective: Throughout the text, the authors inject a healthy dose of reality into the discussion, including intriguing examples of how real companies use marketing research and war stories from the frontlines of the field.There are new learning tools that put you in the know: new chapter opening Visual Checklists and chapter ending Visual Summaries help reinforce your understanding of the material. It includes the student version of SPSS 13: In addition, new SPSS exercises at the end of the quantitative chapters give you hands on experience.