It consists of people, equipment and procedures to gather, sort analyze evaluate, and distribute needed, timely and accurate information to Marketing decision makers.
Mainly there are only four parts of Marketing Information System :
1. Internal Records System :-
Marketing intelligence system is kind of happening data, and is a set of procedures and sources used by managers to obtain their every day information about pertinent developments in the marketing environment.
3. Marketing Research System :-
For small scale companies there can conduct research in creative and affordable ways such as :-
The marketing research system have three categories :-
The Marketing Research Process :
Type of Research :
(a) Business/Economic and Corporate Research :
(b) Pricing :
v. Competitive Pricing Analysis
(c) Product
(d) Distributions :
(e) Promotion
(f) Buying Behaviour
The Marketing Research Process
Research Approaches – Primary Data is collected through different ways.
1. Research Instruments :
2. Sampling Plan :
3. Contact Methods.
A Good Research Should have Following Things
4. Marketing Decisions Support System :
It is a co-ordinated collection of data, systems, tools and techniques with supporting software and hardware by which a company gathers and interprets relevant information from business and environment.
Statistical Tools :
Multiple Regression : A Technique for estimating a best equation showing now the value of a dependent variable varies with changing values.
Discriminant Analysis : A technique for classifying an object or persons into two or more categories.
Factor Analysis : It used to determine the few underlying dimensions of a larger set of inter correlated variables.
Cluster Analysis : It used for separating objects into a specified numbers.
Conjoint Analysis : A technique whereby respondents ranked preferences for different offers are decomposed to determine the premises inferred utility function.
Multi dimensional scaling : A variety of technique for producing perceptual maps of competitive products or brands.
Models :
Markov Process Model : This model shows the probability of moving from a current state to any future state.
Queuing Model : It shows the waiting times and queue lengths that can be expected in any system.
New Product Pretest Model : It involves estimating functional relations between buyer status of awareness, trial and repurchase based on consumer preferences and actions in a pretest situation of the Marketing of fee and campaign.
Sales-Response Models : It is a set of Models that estimate functional relations between one or more marketing activities such as sales force size, Advertising expenditures.
Discrete Choice Models : This Model compute the probability of choosing an alternative (e.g. a particular brand within a product category) as a function of the attribute.
Optimization Routines :