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Marketing Research in Practice, a free business course on Tomo

Marketing Research in Practice

Like Duolingo, but for Marketing Research in Practice. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Designing the Inquiry and Analyzing and Deciding. It assumes you already know the basics.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Bizzy the Beaver, the guide who teaches the Marketing Research in Practice course
Marketing Research in Practice
with Bizzy the Beaver
12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Marketing Research in Practice

  • Management problems ask what business action the executive team must take.
  • Marketing research problems identify what specific consumer data is needed.
  • Pairing an action with its underlying data need prevents aimless data collection.
  • Exploratory qualitative interviews scope the problem before committing spend.
  • Descriptive cross-sectional surveys quantify patterns spotted in discovery.
  • Causal live experiments isolate mechanisms after the key variables are mapped.
  • A rigorous hypothesis names a concrete marketing lever as an independent variable.
  • The outcome must be an observable behavior rather than a vague sentiment.
  • Specifying the direction of effect ensures the experiment yields clear proof.
  • Construct validity requires linking abstract concepts to tangible user actions.
  • Form error rates and field-level time directly measure interface friction.
  • Post-purchase satisfaction reflects overall experience rather than task friction.
  • Action standards predetermine strategic decisions before team bias sets in.
  • Defining numeric thresholds in advance stops executives from rationalizing weak data.
  • Research briefs connect empirical findings directly to go/no-go corporate decisions.
  • Surveys capture conscious brand sentiment but distort actual buying habits.
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Marketing Research in Practice the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

Turning Business Decisions Into Research

What is the primary focus of a marketing research problem?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

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Where Marketing Research in Practice takes you

Bridge marketing strategy and research design to make data-backed commercial decisions. Learn how to transform messy business questions into rigorous studies and actionable insights.

  1. 1

    Designing the Inquiry

    • Framing Researchable Marketing Problems
    • Choosing and Calibrating Collection Methods
  2. 2

    Analyzing and Deciding

    • Customer Segmentation and Construct Measurement
    • Translating Data into Marketing Strategy

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

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