flesh out. Also, put flesh on the bones of. Give substance to, provide with details, amplify. For example, The editor told her to flesh out the story, or You need to put flesh on the bones of these characters. This metaphoric expression, alluding to clothing a nude body or adding flesh to a skeleton, was in the mid-1600s put simply as to flesh, the adverb out being added about two centuries later.
Consumer marketing research is a form of applied sociology that concentrates on understanding the preferences, attitudes, and behaviors of consumers in a market-based economy, and it aims to understand the effects and comparative success of marketing campaigns.
Marketing research is used to determine why sales of a product, such as cereal, might have dropped. Qualitative data, typically gathered through interviews, can help market researchers determine the popular opinion. Marketing research is the research that companies do to study customers and other companies. Marketing research might include using social media to see what in trending within a particular industry. Giving away free samples in exchange for filling out a survey is one way companies conduct marketing research.