This course contains an overview of Marketing Research and is based on the SMstudy^® Guide. It has 35 high quality videos on Marketing Research including a brief about a brief history of Marketing Research. Upon completion of this course, students can get free 'SMstudy^® Certified Marketing Research Associate' certification from . The course also touches upon the benefits of SMstudy^® Guide. The SMstudy^® Guide is developed by VMEdu, Inc., a global certification course provider that has educated over 400,000 students world-wide in more than 3,500 companies. It explains Sales and Marketing concepts through a practical, process-oriented approach.

Marketing Research, provides a framework for conducting Marketing Research for a company’s products, services, and brands. Marketing Research is the systematic process of collecting, processing, and analyzing data to provide required information to decision makers. Marketing Research is linked to all other Aspects of Marketing as it provides critical insights that inform key decisions in all other marketing planning and strategies. The processes associated with planning and executing a marketing research project include understanding the research problem; deciding  a suitable research design; collecting, processing, and analyzing data required to solve the problem; interpreting data; and presenting the findings/recommendations of the research project to the key decision makers.