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Including "touch-and-feel" in online consumer research: optimizing information gain given costs of data online versus in-person.
- Source :
- Journal of Marketing Analytics; Jun2024, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p411-416, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Given the high cost to corporations of in-person data collection attributable to focus group facility rental costs, recruitment costs, and honoraria, the corporate market researcher working with finite budget must weigh the pros and cons of in-person versus online research for tangible goods. The purpose of the study was to establish a practitioner accessible approach to maximizing information gain per dollar spent collecting sample. In phase one, a repeated-measures sample was obtained from in-person respondents who also completed the research online. Using the phase one covariance of online/in-person ratings, phase two online-only data were collected, transformed, and blended with phase one data to create a weighted purchase intent metric reflecting both online and in-person evaluations. By blending in-person (expensive) and online (cheap) data collection modes, cost-savings were realized without expanding the confidence internal around purchase intent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONSUMER research
BUDGET
COST
RESEARCH personnel
ACQUISITION of data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20503318
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Marketing Analytics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178028445
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1057/s41270-022-00205-3