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Measuring the concept of importance in marketing research is fraught with difficulties. Importance ratings are ambiguous because respondents ascribe different meanings to the term "important." Compounding the problem, marketing managers often don't clearly specify what they mean when they ask, "What's important to our customers?" The conceptual definition of this term has inherent problems that researchers must address when measuring this concept and that marketing managers must address when discussing it.
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