Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Market Analysis

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For any business, to keep the product in market as a prevailing stuff, pricing becomes an essential technique and hence it requires a detailed market research. Let’s take pricing as an example to define the market analysis issues elaborately .Companies are striving to keep an optimum price for their products based on their features and capabilities which can be delivered to the customers. The market research tools comprises of quantitative and qualitative techniques.

The dilemma which companies facing in the market today is mainly related to brand positioning which ultimately depends on the overall qualities of the product in terms of its price and also its features. Through market research, the answers for the brand positioning related controversies can be delivered. For example, through positioning research and market segmentation techniques, various aspects like sensitivity of the product related to price and demand analysis can be answered by various stages of price research.

Small and medium enterprise companies are launching various internet marketing campaign packages to tune their websites for enhancing the fundability and for boosting the marketing efforts through market research techniques. These packages are aimed to improve the competitive analysis efforts and other research methods.

The research related to pricing is mainly done by interviews, questionnaires and other survey methods which help in discovering various hidden issues that ultimately helps to tap the opportunities and hence ensure the success in the hunt much faster than other competitors.

The most common used research method is quantitative research method which helps to decide the complicated issues like competitive prices of the product. The steps involved in this process include figuring out a problem, proposing a hypothesis and definition of parameters for the corresponding hypothesis. The final step is to do the statistical analysis and delivering the solution to the problem.

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