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The Consumer Insights Handbook

Unlocking Audience Research Methods

Danielle Sarver Coombs

At its core, consumer insights research is fun. Fast paced, creative, and exciting, working in this field means constant interaction and engagement with people, concepts, and ideas. The work is dynamic and intellectually challenging, celebrating innovative approaches that lead to unique explanations of and solutions for important problems. Whether you are working on a media product or a strategic communication campaign, successfully reaching your audience and meeting your objectives requires good research.

The Consumer Insights Handbook flips the typical model presented in mass communication research textbooks to emphasize that data should be used to understand people as thoughtful, deliberative audiences. As such, research should be done with the goal of better understanding target audiences in a meaningful way. With this orientation in mind, these insight-driven research projects allow media practitioners and strategic communication professionals to tap into audiences’ wants, needs, and desires through messaging and products designed to resonate.

Guided by the author’s own experience in the field as well as guidance from current practitioners on the client, boutique, and agency sides, this book offers an accessible, thorough, and compelling perspective on how to plan for and complete consumer insights research projects from the initial RFP to the final presentation of findings. Each chapter includes a guide for how to conduct in-class research, quotes and recommendations from experts in the field, and case studies and real-world examples.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248 • Trim: 7⅜ x 10¾
978-1-5381-4551-7 • Hardback • June 2021 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
978-1-5381-4552-4 • Paperback • June 2021 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Business & Economics / Marketing / Research, Business & Economics / Advertising & Promotion

Danielle Sarver Coombs is professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. She is the co-author of Female Fans of the NFL and author of Last Man Standing: Media, Framing, and the 2012 Republican Primary. Coombs has also co-edited three anthologies—Debates for the Digital Age, We Are What We Sell, and American History through American Sports (2012)—and has published research on sport fans and fandom in journals, including the Howard Journal of Communications, Liminalities, the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Sport in Society, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Public Relations Research.

Table of Contents

PART I: PREPARATION

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

  • What is Research?
    • How We See the World
    • Planning for Research Design
  • Working on Teams
  • How to Use this Book
  • Key Terms

Chapter 2: Working with Clients

  • General Best Practices
    • Looking Good (And by “Good,” I Mean Professional)
    • Confidence is Key. So is Humility.
  • Getting Work Started
    • Responding to RFPs
    • Pitching New Business
    • Understanding and Assessing Needs
    • Business Objectives and Research Objectives
    • Developing Actionable Research Questions
    • Establishing and Working with Budgets
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 3: Secondary Research and Analysis

  • Conducting Secondary Research
  • Secondary Research Sources
    • Non-Public Sources
    • Public Sources
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 4: Applied Research Ethics

  • Why This Matters
  • Key Ethical Principles
  • Applied Research Ethics
    • Gaining Consent
    • Anonymity versus Confidentiality
    • Privacy Laws and Legal Implications
    • Conducting Research Online
    • Accurate Representation of Ideas, or How to Avoid Plagiarism
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Chapter 5: Qualitative Research Design and Considerations

  • Why Do Qualitative Research?
    • Benefits
    • Limitations
  • Qualitative Methods
    • Interviews
    • Ethnographies
    • Participant Observation
    • Focus Groups
    • Online Communities
  • Ensuring Rigor
    • Ways to Ensure Rigor
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 6: Qualitative Data Collection

  • Writing an Effective Instrument
    • Guide Structure
    • Tips for Writing
  • General Best Practices
    • Record, Record, Record
  • Data Collection: In the Field
    • Conducting Interviews
    • Conducting Ethnographies
    • Conducting Focus Groups
  • Conducting Qualitative Research Online
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways

Chapter 7: Using Creative Exercises for Deeper Insights

  • General Best Practices
    • Generating Good Data
  • Types of Creative Exercises
    • Collage
    • Drawings and Storytelling
    • Bring Brands to Life
    • Fill-In-The-Blank
    • “Magic Wand”
    • Creating Lists and Organizing Data
    • Card Sorts
    • Marketing Exec
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 8: Qualitative Data Analysis and Reporting

  • General Best Practices: During Fielding
  • General Best Practices: Post-Collection Data Analysis
    • In the Debrief
  • Topline Research Report
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways

PART III: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

Chapter 9: Quantitative Research Design and Best Practices

  • Why Do Quantitative Research?
    • Benefits
    • Limitations
  • Basic Principles and Characteristics
    • Correlation is Not Causation
    • Standardization
    • Hypotheses versus Research Questions
  • Sampling and Samples
    • Probability Sampling
    • Nonprobability Sampling
  • Error, Margin of Error, and Confidence Level
  • Quantitative Research for Academics
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 10: Quantitative Data Collection

  • General Best Practices
  • Preparing to Write Your Survey
  • Structuring Your Survey
    • Screener
    • The Body
    • Demographics
    • Editing Your Survey
  • Writing Good Questions
    • Different Types of Questions
  • Basic Rules for Writing Questions
    • Writing Good Responses
  • Trend Studies
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 11: Quantitative Data Analysis and Reporting

  • Good Preparation, Good Data
  • Ensuring Data Accuracy
    • Descriptive Statistics
    • Weighting
    • Checking on What Happens in the “Black Box”
  • Statistical Models for the Non-Statisticians
    • Conjoint Analysis
    • Maximum-Difference Scaling (MaxDiff)
    • Discrete Choice Modeling
    • Factor Analysis
    • Cluster Analysis
  • Data Reports and Banners
  • Debriefing and Data Analysis
    • Preparing for your Debrief
    • Debriefing
  • Reporting Quantitative Research
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

PART IV: REPORTING FINDINGS

Chapter 12: Writing Your Report

  • Goal and Purpose
  • Develop Your “Elevator Pitch”
  • Organizing Your Thoughts
    • Preparing your Outline
    • Integrate and Synthesize Insights into Themes
    • Plan your Signposting
    • Bake in Transitions
    • Flesh out your Recommendations
    • Always Come Back to your Story
  • Telling a Story
    • Keep the Story Moving
    • Share Data Strategically
    • Focus on your Flow
    • Stay Focused
  • Report Sections
  • Report Formats
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 13: Developing (and Designing) Your Deliverable

  • Designing your Deliverable
    • Make Sure your Story is Clear
    • Make Signposts Clear
    • Metaphors Matter
  • Deliverable Formats
  • Design Basics (Very, Very Basics)
    • Designing your Deliverable
    • Hierarchy
    • Consistency
    • Effective Use of Color and Contrast
  • Presenting Data
    • Forms of Data Presentation
    • Guidelines for Presenting Data
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Key Terms

Chapter 14: The Client Presentation

  • Goal and Purpose
  • Preparation
    • Know your Audience
    • Know your Material
    • Internalizing
  • During the Presentation
  • Wrapping Up the Project
    • Back in the Office
  • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
  • Final Thoughts

Danielle Coombs has done a wonderful job writing about research techniques that students can actually use, both as student researchers and eventual professionals. Students will enjoy reading this book.


— Kathryn D. Coduto, South Dakota State University


The Consumer Insights Handbook is a much needed textbook for our discipline. Before now, we have never had a book dedicated solely to teaching our aspiring advertising and public relations practitioners the importance of research from an industry standpoint. Danielle Coombs has provided an accessible text for our students that's comprehensive, yet easy to read. Every research methods and insights course in our field should be using this book.


— Kenon A. Brown, University of Alabama


  • Chapter key terms lists and comprehensive glossary



The Consumer Insights Handbook

Unlocking Audience Research Methods

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • At its core, consumer insights research is fun. Fast paced, creative, and exciting, working in this field means constant interaction and engagement with people, concepts, and ideas. The work is dynamic and intellectually challenging, celebrating innovative approaches that lead to unique explanations of and solutions for important problems. Whether you are working on a media product or a strategic communication campaign, successfully reaching your audience and meeting your objectives requires good research.

    The Consumer Insights Handbook flips the typical model presented in mass communication research textbooks to emphasize that data should be used to understand people as thoughtful, deliberative audiences. As such, research should be done with the goal of better understanding target audiences in a meaningful way. With this orientation in mind, these insight-driven research projects allow media practitioners and strategic communication professionals to tap into audiences’ wants, needs, and desires through messaging and products designed to resonate.

    Guided by the author’s own experience in the field as well as guidance from current practitioners on the client, boutique, and agency sides, this book offers an accessible, thorough, and compelling perspective on how to plan for and complete consumer insights research projects from the initial RFP to the final presentation of findings. Each chapter includes a guide for how to conduct in-class research, quotes and recommendations from experts in the field, and case studies and real-world examples.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 248 • Trim: 7⅜ x 10¾
    978-1-5381-4551-7 • Hardback • June 2021 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
    978-1-5381-4552-4 • Paperback • June 2021 • $61.00 • (£47.00)
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Business & Economics / Marketing / Research, Business & Economics / Advertising & Promotion
Author
Author
  • Danielle Sarver Coombs is professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University. She is the co-author of Female Fans of the NFL and author of Last Man Standing: Media, Framing, and the 2012 Republican Primary. Coombs has also co-edited three anthologies—Debates for the Digital Age, We Are What We Sell, and American History through American Sports (2012)—and has published research on sport fans and fandom in journals, including the Howard Journal of Communications, Liminalities, the Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Sport in Society, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Public Relations Research.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents

    PART I: PREPARATION

    Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

    • What is Research?
      • How We See the World
      • Planning for Research Design
    • Working on Teams
    • How to Use this Book
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 2: Working with Clients

    • General Best Practices
      • Looking Good (And by “Good,” I Mean Professional)
      • Confidence is Key. So is Humility.
    • Getting Work Started
      • Responding to RFPs
      • Pitching New Business
      • Understanding and Assessing Needs
      • Business Objectives and Research Objectives
      • Developing Actionable Research Questions
      • Establishing and Working with Budgets
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 3: Secondary Research and Analysis

    • Conducting Secondary Research
    • Secondary Research Sources
      • Non-Public Sources
      • Public Sources
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 4: Applied Research Ethics

    • Why This Matters
    • Key Ethical Principles
    • Applied Research Ethics
      • Gaining Consent
      • Anonymity versus Confidentiality
      • Privacy Laws and Legal Implications
      • Conducting Research Online
      • Accurate Representation of Ideas, or How to Avoid Plagiarism
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    PART II: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

    Chapter 5: Qualitative Research Design and Considerations

    • Why Do Qualitative Research?
      • Benefits
      • Limitations
    • Qualitative Methods
      • Interviews
      • Ethnographies
      • Participant Observation
      • Focus Groups
      • Online Communities
    • Ensuring Rigor
      • Ways to Ensure Rigor
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 6: Qualitative Data Collection

    • Writing an Effective Instrument
      • Guide Structure
      • Tips for Writing
    • General Best Practices
      • Record, Record, Record
    • Data Collection: In the Field
      • Conducting Interviews
      • Conducting Ethnographies
      • Conducting Focus Groups
    • Conducting Qualitative Research Online
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways

    Chapter 7: Using Creative Exercises for Deeper Insights

    • General Best Practices
      • Generating Good Data
    • Types of Creative Exercises
      • Collage
      • Drawings and Storytelling
      • Bring Brands to Life
      • Fill-In-The-Blank
      • “Magic Wand”
      • Creating Lists and Organizing Data
      • Card Sorts
      • Marketing Exec
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 8: Qualitative Data Analysis and Reporting

    • General Best Practices: During Fielding
    • General Best Practices: Post-Collection Data Analysis
      • In the Debrief
    • Topline Research Report
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways

    PART III: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH

    Chapter 9: Quantitative Research Design and Best Practices

    • Why Do Quantitative Research?
      • Benefits
      • Limitations
    • Basic Principles and Characteristics
      • Correlation is Not Causation
      • Standardization
      • Hypotheses versus Research Questions
    • Sampling and Samples
      • Probability Sampling
      • Nonprobability Sampling
    • Error, Margin of Error, and Confidence Level
    • Quantitative Research for Academics
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 10: Quantitative Data Collection

    • General Best Practices
    • Preparing to Write Your Survey
    • Structuring Your Survey
      • Screener
      • The Body
      • Demographics
      • Editing Your Survey
    • Writing Good Questions
      • Different Types of Questions
    • Basic Rules for Writing Questions
      • Writing Good Responses
    • Trend Studies
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 11: Quantitative Data Analysis and Reporting

    • Good Preparation, Good Data
    • Ensuring Data Accuracy
      • Descriptive Statistics
      • Weighting
      • Checking on What Happens in the “Black Box”
    • Statistical Models for the Non-Statisticians
      • Conjoint Analysis
      • Maximum-Difference Scaling (MaxDiff)
      • Discrete Choice Modeling
      • Factor Analysis
      • Cluster Analysis
    • Data Reports and Banners
    • Debriefing and Data Analysis
      • Preparing for your Debrief
      • Debriefing
    • Reporting Quantitative Research
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    PART IV: REPORTING FINDINGS

    Chapter 12: Writing Your Report

    • Goal and Purpose
    • Develop Your “Elevator Pitch”
    • Organizing Your Thoughts
      • Preparing your Outline
      • Integrate and Synthesize Insights into Themes
      • Plan your Signposting
      • Bake in Transitions
      • Flesh out your Recommendations
      • Always Come Back to your Story
    • Telling a Story
      • Keep the Story Moving
      • Share Data Strategically
      • Focus on your Flow
      • Stay Focused
    • Report Sections
    • Report Formats
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 13: Developing (and Designing) Your Deliverable

    • Designing your Deliverable
      • Make Sure your Story is Clear
      • Make Signposts Clear
      • Metaphors Matter
    • Deliverable Formats
    • Design Basics (Very, Very Basics)
      • Designing your Deliverable
      • Hierarchy
      • Consistency
      • Effective Use of Color and Contrast
    • Presenting Data
      • Forms of Data Presentation
      • Guidelines for Presenting Data
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Key Terms

    Chapter 14: The Client Presentation

    • Goal and Purpose
    • Preparation
      • Know your Audience
      • Know your Material
      • Internalizing
    • During the Presentation
    • Wrapping Up the Project
      • Back in the Office
    • Best Practices & Key Take-Aways
    • Final Thoughts

Reviews
Reviews
  • Danielle Coombs has done a wonderful job writing about research techniques that students can actually use, both as student researchers and eventual professionals. Students will enjoy reading this book.


    — Kathryn D. Coduto, South Dakota State University


    The Consumer Insights Handbook is a much needed textbook for our discipline. Before now, we have never had a book dedicated solely to teaching our aspiring advertising and public relations practitioners the importance of research from an industry standpoint. Danielle Coombs has provided an accessible text for our students that's comprehensive, yet easy to read. Every research methods and insights course in our field should be using this book.


    — Kenon A. Brown, University of Alabama


Features
Features
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