You receive an RFP from the company Bens Cookies. They want you to conduct marketing research about their company and customer

BBA221 MARKETING RESEARCH Task brief & rubrics

Task – Midterm individual assignment

You receive an RFP from the company Ben’s Cookies. They want you to conduct marketing research about their company and customers’ experience. Elaborate

research in which you achieve all the objectives included in this proposal, and clearly point out to how you answer this and where you got the information from:

1. General associations and perceptions of the brand. What are their main competitors? What do they do better/worse than them? What is a list of 10

keywords that customers associate with the company? Write a paragraph or two explaining the general perception that customers have about the

brand.

2. Assess the level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction. This means that you need to collect information about

how happy or dissatisfied customers are, as well as explaining what factors make them be satisfied with the brand/product and what elements decrease

this satisfaction.

3. Understand better the customers’ experience consistency across all London shops. To do this, think about and explain what type of research you’ll do:

quantitative, qualitative, etc. Relying on secondary data, what is the experience of customers like in these shops? Is it consistent across all London

locations? If you could conduct primary research, would you do a focus group or a survey? Why? What type of sample would you choose? Outline 5

questions that you would ask them that are aligned with their experience in the shops.

Remember that is important that you justify your answers and include in-text citations throughout the submitted document, as seen in class, as well as a list of

references. This directly affects the quality and credibility of your work.

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 2000 words.

• Font: Arial 11,5 pts. Line spacing: 1,5.

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography must be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week 6 – Sunday 6th of March 2022 at 23:59h (CET).

Weight: This task is 40% of your total grade for this subject. It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: evaluate the extent to which strategic marketing decisions or business needs of a company have an impact on the design of marketing

research and the formulation of consumer behavior questionnaires.

• Outcome 2: identify the sampling methods and procedures and determine the sampling sizes.

• Outcome 3: apply the appropriate research design methods to obtain insights into the marketing research problems or opportunities.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge: Brand associations and

perceptions (20%)

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are very well assessed, competitors are identified and very well analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand is clear and solid.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are well assessed, competitors are identified and well analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand is overall.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand included, and competitors are identified but could be further analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand could be improved.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are not very well assessed, missing important competitors and pertinent analysis. The explanation of the perception of the brand is rather vague.

Understanding: Level of customer satisfaction (30%)

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both very well analysed and explained using highly pertinent information.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both well analysed and explained using overall pertinent information.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both discussed to a fair extent, but they should be developed to a greater extent.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are not explicitly nor properly acknowledged. Missing important information to consider this research properly done.

Critical thinking (30%)

The customers’ experience is assessed, and the methods are very well explained. Secondary data is very well analysed and the proposal for primary data is highly appropriate.

The customers’ experience is assessed, and the methods are overall well explained. Secondary data is well analysed and the proposal for primary data is appropriate in general.

The customers’ experience is assessed, but the methods could be better explained. Secondary data and primary data are acknowledged, but some revisions are needed.

The customers’ experience is not properly assessed, missing important information about the methods, secondary and primary data.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and in-text citations are adequately included in throughout the document and in the list of references.

Student communicates their ideas clearly and pertinent in-text citations are included.

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and references are included to a satisfactory extent, although they need to be reviewed.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. References are not adequately included.

BBA221 MARKETING RESEARCH Task brief & rubrics

Task – Midterm individual assignment

You receive an RFP from the company Ben’s Cookies. They want you to conduct marketing research about their company and customers’ experience. Elaborate

research in which you achieve all the objectives included in this proposal, and clearly point out to how you answer this and where you got the information from:

1. General associations and perceptions of the brand. What are their main competitors? What do they do better/worse than them? What is a list of 10

keywords that customers associate with the company? Write a paragraph or two explaining the general perception that customers have about the

brand.

2. Assess the level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction. This means that you need to collect information about

how happy or dissatisfied customers are, as well as explaining what factors make them be satisfied with the brand/product and what elements decrease

this satisfaction.

3. Understand better the customers’ experience consistency across all London shops. To do this, think about and explain what type of research you’ll do:

quantitative, qualitative, etc. Relying on secondary data, what is the experience of customers like in these shops? Is it consistent across all London

locations? If you could conduct primary research, would you do a focus group or a survey? Why? What type of sample would you choose? Outline 5

questions that you would ask them that are aligned with their experience in the shops.

Remember that is important that you justify your answers and include in-text citations throughout the submitted document, as seen in class, as well as a list of

references. This directly affects the quality and credibility of your work.

Formalities:

• Wordcount: 2000 words.

• Font: Arial 11,5 pts. Line spacing: 1,5.

• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

• The in-text References and the Bibliography must be in Harvard’s citation style.

Submission: Week 6 – Sunday 6th of March 2022 at 23:59h (CET).

Weight: This task is 40% of your total grade for this subject. It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: evaluate the extent to which strategic marketing decisions or business needs of a company have an impact on the design of marketing

research and the formulation of consumer behavior questionnaires.

• Outcome 2: identify the sampling methods and procedures and determine the sampling sizes.

• Outcome 3: apply the appropriate research design methods to obtain insights into the marketing research problems or opportunities.

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge: Brand associations and

perceptions (20%)

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are very well assessed, competitors are identified and very well analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand is clear and solid.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are well assessed, competitors are identified and well analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand is overall.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand included, and competitors are identified but could be further analysed. The explanation of the perception of the brand could be improved.

The general associations and perceptions of the brand are not very well assessed, missing important competitors and pertinent analysis. The explanation of the perception of the brand is rather vague.

Understanding: Level of customer satisfaction (30%)

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both very well analysed and explained using highly pertinent information.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both well analysed and explained using overall pertinent information.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are both discussed to a fair extent, but they should be developed to a greater extent.

The level of customer satisfaction and individual factors driving high or low satisfaction are not explicitly nor properly acknowledged. Missing important information to consider this research properly done.

Critical thinking (30%)

The customers’ experience is assessed, and the methods are very well explained. Secondary data is very well analysed and the proposal for primary data is highly appropriate.

The customers’ experience is assessed, and the methods are overall well explained. Secondary data is well analysed and the proposal for primary data is appropriate in general.

The customers’ experience is assessed, but the methods could be better explained. Secondary data and primary data are acknowledged, but some revisions are needed.

The customers’ experience is not properly assessed, missing important information about the methods, secondary and primary data.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and in-text citations are adequately included in throughout the document and in the list of references.

Student communicates their ideas clearly and pertinent in-text citations are included.

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and references are included to a satisfactory extent, although they need to be reviewed.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. References are not adequately included.