Ethnic And Multicultural Market Research

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Brazilian hair care firm Beleza Natural thrives by keeping close to its roots: On-site visits help researchers understand the icons and ideals used by a Brazilian hair care firm to both inspire and form a bond with its working-class customers.
By the Numbers: Make your international phone interviews successful in any language: When conducting international telephone interviews, choose your vendor carefully, the author says. Look for experience, native-speaking interviewers, flexibility, attention to detail and the use of in-language monitoring.
Considerations in quantitative data collection in China: Conducting commercial quantitative research in China presents methodological and cultural issues that either don’t exist or that have already been solved in Western society. Researchers must take heed in this relatively-virgin territory and adapt their strategies to cater to China’s unique circumstances.
No offense: Do Hispanics rate products higher because they're Hispanic?
Latinos are going cellular. Can we?: The industry faces a number of obstacles in attempting to conduct cell phone research with Latino consumers. Despite these hurdles, the decline in landline phone usage may force researchers to develop cell phone-based research programs to keep a growing and important market segment accessible for research.

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Market research & measurement in Mexico: key guideposts: The marketing environment in Mexico has changed considerably since the late 1980s. Increased competition will require companies to launch sophisticated marketing strategies that will require primary market research. This article discusses how to conduct market research and measurement in Mexico, including using approaches that differ from those used in U.S. markets, cultural characteristics and timeliness.
The value of 'practiced ignorance' in cultural research: When it comes to ethnic and cross-cultural research, there are plenty of “experts” who will tell you how difficult it is. The situation isn’t as tough as the experts make it out to be, but worse! This article discusses applied ignorance in cultural research, referring to a consumer-products study focusing on Indonesia.
Qualitative research develops in China: The authors visited China this fall to deliver workshops on qualitative research on behalf of the China Market Research Association and Beijing Pan-Asia market Research Institute. This article is drawn from materials presented at their workshops and from their discussions with Chinese researchers. The article includes a sidebar with 10 tips for conducting research in China.
Research unravels bus riders' intimidation: Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Metropolitan Transit Commission needed to overcome many obstacles to increase and retain ridership on busses, especially for non-English speakers. Interviews, focus groups and questionnaires in different languages were employed to develop a marketing strategy that would make the bus system more hospitable and less threatening.
Trade Talk: Study shows how Latinos' news media habits shape their views: The Pew Hispanic Center conducted a study which examined the role of language in Hispanic consumption of media.

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Related Glossary Terms

Ethnic research: Research which is focused on a group set apart from others because of its race which includes common language, history, geography, kinship, national origin, skin color and/or distinctive cultural patterns.

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Related Events

THE LIFE STAGE MARKETING SUMMIT: May 10-12, 2010; IIR will hold an event, themed 'The Life Stage Marketing Summit,' on May 10-12 at the Hotel Sax Chicago in Chicago.
ESOMAR LATIN AMERICAN CONFERENCE: May 23-25, 2010; ESOMAR will hold its annual Latin America conference on May 23-25 in Cartagena, Colombia.

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