CHAPTER 3
COLLECTING INFORMATION AND
FORECASTING DEMAND
Nguyen Tien Dung, MBA
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Chapter Questions
● What are the components of a modern
marketing information system?
● What are useful internal records for such a
system?
● What makes up a marketing intelligence
system?
● What are some influential macroenvironment
developments?
● How can companies accurately measure and
forecast demand?
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Chapter Main Contents
1. Components of a Modern Marketing
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Information System
Internal Records
Marketing Intelligence
Analyzing the Macroenvironment
Forecasting and Demand Measurement
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Types of Marketing Information
● Internal & External
● Event and research information
● Statistics-based & market research-based
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1. Components of an MIS
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MIS (Marketing Information System)
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A marketing information system consists of people,
equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate,
and distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to
marketing decision makers.
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2. Internal Records
● Order-to-payment cycle
● Sales information system
● Databases, warehousing, data mining
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3. Marketing Intelligence System
● Definition of Marketing Intelligence System
● Collecting Marketing Intelligence on the
Internet
● Communicating and Acting on Marketing
Intelligence
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Definition of Marketing Intelligence System
● A marketing intelligence system is a set of procedures
and sources that managers use to obtain everyday
information about developments in the marketing
environment.
● The internal records system supplies results data, but the
marketing intelligence system supplies happenings data.
● Methods:
● reading books, newspapers, and trade publications;
● talking to customers, suppliers, and distributors;
● monitoring social media on the Internet;
● meeting with other company managers.
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Improving Marketing Intelligence
1. Train and motivate the sales force to spot and
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report new developments
Motivate distributors, retailers, and other
intermediaries to pass along important intelligence.
Hire external experts to collect intelligence
Network internally and externally.
Set up a customer advisory panel.
Take advantage of government-related data
resources.
Purchase information from outside research firms
and vendors.
Collecting marketing intelligence on the Internet.
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Table 3.2
Secondary Commercial Data Sources
● Nielsen
● MRCA
● Information Resources
● SAMI/Burke
● Simmons
● Arbitron
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Collecting Marketing Intelligence on the Internet
● Independent customer goods and service review
forums: Epinions.com, RateItAll.com,
ConsumerReview.com and Bizrate.com …
● Distributor or sales agent feedback sites
● Combination sites offering customer reviews and
expert opinions
● Customer complaint sites
● Public blogs
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4. Analyzing Macroenvironments
● Needs and Trends
● Identifying the Major Forces
● The Demographic Environment
● The Economic Environment
● The Sociocultural Environment
● The Natural Environment
● The Technological Environment
● The Political-Legal Environment
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Needs and Trends
● Fads: unpredictable, short-lived, and without
social, economic, and political significance.”
● Trends
● a more predictable and durable than a fad;
● reveal the shape of the future and can provide
strategic direction.
● Example: health and nutrition awareness has brought
increased government regulation and negative
publicity for firms seen as peddling unhealthy food.
● Megatrends:
● a “large social, economic, political, and technological
change [that] is slow to form, and once in place,
influences us for some time—between seven and ten
years, or longer.”
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Trends Shaping the Business Landscape
● Profound shifts in centers of
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economic activity
Increases in public-sector
activity
Change in consumer
landscape
Technological connectivity
Scarcity of well-trained
talent
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● Increase in demand for
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natural resources
Emergence of new global
industry structures
Ubiquitous access to
information
Management shifts from art
to science
Increase in scrutiny of big
business practices
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Macro-Environmental Forces
● Demographic
● Economic
● Socio-cultural
● Natural
● Technological
● Political-legal
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Population and Demographics
● Population growth
● Educational groups
● Population age mix
● Household patterns
● Ethnic markets
● Geographical shifts
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Economic Environment
● Income Distribution
● Savings, Debt, and Credit
● Four types of economies based on the industrial structure:
● subsistence economies like Papua New Guinea, with
few opportunities for marketers;
● raw-material-exporting economies like Democratic
Republic of Congo (copper) and Saudi Arabia (oil), with
good markets for equipment, tools, supplies, and luxury
goods for the rich;
● industrializing economies like India, Egypt, and the
Philippines, where a new rich class and a growing
middle class demand new types of goods; and
● industrial economies like Western Europe, with rich
markets for all sorts of goods.
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Social-Cultural Environment
● High persistence of core cultural values
● Core beliefs and values are passed from parents
to children and reinforced by social institutions—
schools, churches, businesses, and
governments.
● Secondary beliefs and values are more open to
change.
● Believing in the institution of marriage is a core
belief; believing people should marry early is a
secondary belief.
● Existence of subcultures
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● Views of themselves
● Views of others
● Views of organizations
● Views of society
● Views of nature
● Views of the universe
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Natural Environment
● Shortage of raw materials
● Increased energy costs
● Anti-pollution pressures
● Governmental protections
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Keys to Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia
● Consumer Value Positioning
● Calibration of Consumer Knowledge
● Credibility of Product Claims
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