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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun With Legos Too

Background LEGO has long found success with using market research to illuminate consumer tastes and preferences. In the early 2000s, the company was directionless and failing, so LEGO turned to market research to try and rebuild their brand. This turned out to be the right decision, because research into their target market of young boys […]

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Customers Asked for Healthier Options… McDonald’s Delivered

Background As of 2018, over 80 percent of Americans consume fast at least one time per week, but in the past few years, Americans have moved towards buying food products labeled as containing natural or clean ingredients. As a result, many fast food customers have demanded fresher ingredients and lower-calorie options from their favorite chains. […]

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Reeling it In

If you want to stay on top of social media marketing, you have to constantly be up to speed with how an app’s algorithm works. Take Instagram, for example. While it used to be known primarily as a photo-sharing app, it’s been prioritizing video content for a while now, specifically Reels. “Instagram redesigned its home […]

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Apple Inc. & the Continued Relevance of Customer Satisfaction Surveys

Background on Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company based in Cupertino, California that has been remarkably successful. The extreme level of success achieved by the company may lead some to believe that its products do not require marketing. However, Apple has implemented a variety of marketing strategies, and still spends a considerable […]

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Starbucks: Learning About Customer Preferences from the Source

Background Starbucks Corporation is a multinational coffeehouse chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For younger generations, Starbucks has simply appeared to always be around and always be successful, but older generations witnessed how Starbucks’ high value for market research helped it become the largest coffeehouse chain in the world. Starbucks’ Market Research Even with Starbucks’ fame, […]

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The Importance of Research Design to a Marketing Strategy

What is Research Design? Research design involves the creation of a blueprint or roadmap that lays out the process for collecting, measuring, and analyze relevant data used to answer an important research question. The two types of research design, quantitative and qualitative, are discussed below. Quantitative Research Design Quantitative research design looks at how consumers […]

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Dove and Twitter: Netnography To Inner Beauty

Inner Beauty Dove has been committed to building confidence in beauty. In a world with high beauty standards, women have taken to social media to share their opinions on beauty. “In 2014 alone, women posted 5 million negative Tweets about beauty and body image. Women are two times as likely to say something negative about […]

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How to Utilize Verification on Social Media

Using this blue check may increase your brand’s visibility and credibility among a global audience. If you have been active on any social media platforms in the past year, chances are you have been seeing more and more of these blue check marks. Traditionally associated with A-list celebrities and billion-dollar companies, the blue check is […]