Methodology of a marketing research of Internet users

Strengthening of a trend of development in Russia of internet marketing and, as a result, increase of relevance of carrying out highly professional marketing researches in the web environment has been considered. The article is aimed at identification of methodological specifics of a marketing research of Internet users, development of its concept. The stated goal is achieved by means of the solution of the following tasks: the analysis and systematization of the goals of the marketing research of the Internet users; identification and systematization of the empirical indicators, which are necessary for the research of the Internet users; the analysis and systematization of methods, techniques, the technician and procedures of a research of empirical indicators, including, special services, corresponding to methods of collecting primary empirical data in the web environment. The analysis of such methods of the marketing empirical research of the Internet users as a usability testing, an online experiment, a game experiment, a usability experiment, online questioning, online interviewing, including an individual deep online interview, a group deep online interview (online focus group), the content analysis of web messages of consumers, the analysis of traces, including analysis of site statistics, has been presented. Meanwhile, the attention is focused on observance of the necessity of full subordination of each of the presented techniques to the methodological principles of the corresponding basic method, which derivative it is, because violation of the specified requirement leads to inevitable vulgarization of scientific methodology of carrying out an empirical research and obtaining incorrect data. From the point of view of the author, an application by the marketing analyst of the concept of a research and research tools, presented in the article, in the course of the organization and carrying out market researches of the Internet users allows to obtain information, necessary for creation of effective marketing web communication and also to find and in due time to prevent potential and real communicative failures.

Internet marketing, marketing research, usability testing, online experiment, usability experiment, online questioning, online interviewing, online focus group, content analysis of web messages, analysis of statistics of the website

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