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Don't think of yourself as a student, think of yourself as a manager. ESSENTIALS OF MARKETING RESEARCH puts you in the driver's seat with the latest information on how to harness the design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data to enhance your company’s profits. This is a perfect marketing textbook for acing the class and a dependable resource for the future.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #511945 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 436 pages

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"An excellent text for first-time marketing research instructors who need a solid foundation for developing a new course prep. A sound text for experienced marketing research instructors who want something more than a ’basics’ text but something less than the most comprehensive and challenging texts."

About the Author
A native of the Chicago area, William G. Zikmund was a professor of marketing at Oklahoma State University and died shortly after completing the eighth edition. He received a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of Colorado. Before beginning his academic career, Professor Zikmund worked in marketing research for Conway/Millikin Company (a marketing research supplier) and Remington Arms Company (an extensive user of marketing research). Professor Zikmund also has served as a marketing research consultant to several business and nonprofit organizations. During his academic career, Professor Zikmund published dozens of articles and papers in a diverse group of scholarly journals, ranging from the Journal of Marketing to the Accounting Review to the Journal of Applied Psychology. In addition to Exploring Marketing Research, Professor Zikmund authored Essentials of Marketing Research, Business Research Methods, Marketing, Effective Marketing, and a work of fiction, A Corporate Bestiary. Professor Zikmund was a member of several professional organizations, including the American Marketing Association, the Academy of Marketing Science, the Association for Consumer Research, the Society for Marketing Advances, the Marketing Educators’ Association, and the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators. He served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Education, Marketing Education Review, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Journal of Business Research.

In addition to co-authoring four textbooks, Barry Babin has published over seventy research publications in prestigious periodicals such as the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Retailing, Psychological Reports, Psychology and Marketing, and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Dr. Babin has won also numerous honors for his research, including the University of Southern Mississippi’s Louis K. Brandt Faculty Research Award (on three occasions), the 1996 Society for Marketing Advances (SMA) Steven J. Shaw Award, and the 1997 Omerre Deserres Award for Outstanding Contributions to Retail and Service Environment Research. His research focuses on the effect of the service environment on employees and customers, and his expertise lies in building successful outcomes that support long-lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with employees and customers. He also has expertise in encouraging creativity in the workplace and wine marketing. Dr. Babin’s primary teaching specialties involve consumers and service quality, marketing research, and creative problem solving, and he is a popular and frequent international presenter, having lectured in countries including Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom. Dr. Babin is current president of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, former president of the Society of Marketing Advances, and marketing editor for the Journal of Business Research.

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended for Business & Marketing Students
This first edition of Essentials of Marketing Research is written by Professor William G. Zikmund of Oklahoma State University, author of the best-selling Exploring Marketing Research (now in seventh edition) and Business Research Methods (now in sixth edition).

Shorter than Exploring Marketing Research, it nevertheless presents a lively picture of contemporary marketing research. Its emphasis on practical applications gives business and marketing students a basic understanding of the scope of marketing research.

The result is not a dry, technical and analytical treatment of advanced data analysis or statistical techniques but an accurate presentation of the "big picture" of marketing research as a dynamic, creative and enjoyable pursuit.

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