Essentials of Marketing Research concisely delivers an up-to-date review of a broad variety of marketing research topics. It takes an application-oriented approach, providing students with the tools and skills necessary to solve business problems and exploit business opportunities. The authors' years of experience in real-world marketing research is evident throughout, from their thorough treatment of qualitative research (given short shrift in many other books) to their knowledgeable coverage of sample size rules-of-thumb, conducting a background literature review, and the importance of new market research tools and techniques. Essentials of Marketing Research gives students a strong command of market research principles, while being short enough to use alongside cases or projects.

Offering an applications-oriented approach which focuses on the use of each technique rather than its mathematical derivation, this textbook introduces a six-step framework for organising and discussing multivariate data analysis techniques.

All questions in the Study Guide are keyed to the learning objectives by numbered icons. In addition to true/false, multiple choice, and essay questions, every chapter includes application questions, many in the form of short scenarios, and agree/ disagree questions to help students articulate the concepts they are trying to master. Study Guide questions were designed to be similar in type and difficulty level to the Test Bank questions, so that review using the Study Guide will help students improve their test scores. Every chapter opens with a pre-test to help students assess their level of understanding before beginning to review. Other review tools in the chapter include chapter outlines with definitions of key terms, a synopsis of key points under the learning objectives, and vocabulary practice.