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MKT 202

Customer Analytics and Market Research

Customer research, surveys, analytics, experiments, and evidence-based marketing decisions.

3 weeks·6 units·30 lessons·Prerequisites: MKT 201
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About this course

Customer Analytics and Market Research (MKT 202) teaches you how to turn customer questions into evidence-based marketing decisions. You will move from research strategy to qualitative methods, survey design, customer analytics, experiments, and decision support tools that managers use to allocate marketing spend with confidence.

This is research and analytics for practitioners, not academic methodology for its own sake. The goal is fluency: when someone cites sample bias, statistical power, or cohort retention, you know what was measured, what was assumed, and what the data can and cannot prove.

Prerequisites: MKT 201 (Marketing Management). Length: 3 weeks. Assessment: 40% applied project, 35% knowledge checks, 25% reflections.

What you will be able to do

By the end of MKT 202, you should be able to:

  • Translate business decisions into well-scoped research questions and study designs
  • Conduct and synthesize qualitative customer research with appropriate ethics and privacy
  • Design surveys with valid sampling, reliable measurement, and bias awareness
  • Analyze customer data with cohort, funnel, retention, and lifetime value models
  • Design and interpret A/B tests and experiments with attention to causal inference
  • Build decision-support outputs including dashboards, conjoint analysis, and research briefs

How the course is organized

Six units, 30 lessons. Work in order; each lesson includes worked examples and practice problems.

UnitTopicLessonsYou will
1Research Strategy5Frame decisions, choose methods, and design research plans
2Qualitative Customer Research5Run interviews, observation, and synthesis into personas
3Survey Research5Design questionnaires, sample populations, and analyze results
4Market and Customer Analytics5Apply cohort, funnel, retention, and CLV analytics
5Experiments and Causal Evidence5Design A/B tests, estimate power, and interpret causal results
6Decision Support5Build dashboards, conjoint models, and research recommendations

How to study

  1. Read lessons sequentially. Research strategy frames everything that follows. Skipping survey validity makes experiment design and analytics interpretation unreliable.
  2. Do the practice problems without peeking. Questionnaire design, sample-size logic, and cohort calculations need hands-on practice.
  3. Pick one anchor decision. Carry a single marketing question from research plan through data collection to a final recommendation memo.
  4. Complete unit assessments after all five lessons in that unit. Knowledge checks test application, not vocabulary lists.

Applied work

Across MKT 202 you will build portfolio pieces that compound:

  • Applied project: End-to-end research plan with survey or experiment design and analysis
  • Case analysis: Two-page customer insights brief with evidence quality assessment
  • Portfolio artifact: Customer analytics dashboard with cohort and funnel metrics
  • Executive memo: Research-backed marketing recommendations with limitations stated clearly

What comes next

MKT 201 gave you the strategic marketing foundation; this course adds the evidence layer. OMBA 102: Data, Statistics and Managerial Decisions deepens statistical inference and decision analysis that support rigorous experiment interpretation. CAP 600: Program Capstone Studio integrates customer evidence into your final integrated business recommendation.

Assessment

40% applied project, 35% knowledge checks, 25% reflections

applied project40%

Each unit includes a case component aligned to this weight.

knowledge checks35%

Each unit includes a exercise component aligned to this weight.

reflections25%

Each unit includes a reflection component aligned to this weight.

Open any unit below to complete exercises, project tasks, and the knowledge quiz. Units auto-complete when all assessment items are submitted and you score 80%+ on the quiz.