Excel: Market Research Strategies

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Free Online Course: Excel: Market Research Strategies provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2-3 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Excel: Market Research Strategies is taught by Michael McDonald.

Overview
  • Leverage the power of Excel to become a more effective marketer. Learn how to use Excel to tackle product pricing, focus group response analysis, and more.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Performing marketing analytics in Excel
    1. Demand Forecasting with Excel
    • What is product demand?
    • Measuring product demand
    • Organizing sales data
    • Seasonality in product demand
    • Moving averages and product demand
    • Price elasticity and product demand
    • Predicting demand for a new product
    • Regressions for forecasting
    • Using Excel for regressions
    • Demand forecasting caveats
    2. Optimizing Product Pricing with Excel
    • Product pricing basics
    • Products with pricing power
    • Products without pricing power
    • Price or volume? The big trade-off
    • Price differentiation and wholesaling
    • Advertising attribution and identity
    • Hedonic shoppers and price
    • A/B testing and Excel
    3. Focus Group Response Analysis with Excel
    • Online survey marketing research
    • Interpreting survey results
    • Forecasting propensity to buy
    • Statistics with survey groups
    • Regressions and survey data
    • Purchase intent and price
    4. Customer Value and Excel
    • Cost-per-click and customer value
    • Lifetime customer value
    • Customer churn calculations
    • Customer acquisition cost
    • Waterfall charts and marketing variance
    • Interpreting variance walk charts
    Conclusion
    • Applying Excel to market research