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Our Services

While each and every assignment is custom tailored, our marketing research expertise is usually focused on one of the following marketing areas:

  • Market Development:
    - Analyze Product Features and Benefits
    - Evaluate Competitive Offerings & Positioning
    - Assess Consumer Predisposition
    - Identify Consumer Needs, Motivations, and Barriers
    - Determine Purchase Demographics and Usage Incidence
    - Identify Demographic Breakdown Analysis of Customers vs.
      Non-Customers
    - Measure Share of the Market, Mind, and Wallet
  • Customer & Target Market Segmentation:
    - Measure Size and Characteristics of Existing & Potential          Segments
    - Identify Opportunity Segments Including "Early Adopters"
      and "Most Likely to Buy"
    - Identify Price Expectations and Price Sensitivity
  • Product & Service Development:
    - Gauge Market Reaction to Proposed Product Changes
    - Evaluate Likelihood and Degree of Customer Defections
    - Measure Potential for Brand Cannibalization
    - Evaluate Product Prototypes or Entries into Test Markets
    - Determine Strengths & Weaknesses Prior to Product           
      Introduction
    - Measure Likely Impact on Markets or Existing Products
    - Identify gaps in the Market
  • Positioning & Brand Development:
    - Identify Category Drivers
    - Formulate Brand Positioning Platforms
    - Assess & Craft Brand Architecture and Profile Brand Image         Drivers
    - Track Brand Awareness
  • Track Marketing Impact and ROI:
    - Pre and Post Testing of Awareness, Familiarity,
      and Purchase Intention
    - Measure Attitudinal Changes
    - Calculate Advertising Impact
    - Estimate Marketing ROI
    - Set up Performance-driven Marketing Dashboards
  • Audit Website Performance:
    - Evaluate Customer Loyalty and Retention Content
    - Determine Ease-of-Use and Responsiveness
    - Measure Transparency & Accountability
    - Develop Integration and Communication
    - Design Layout/Composition
    - Prepare Search Engine Placement
  • Assess Employee & Customer Satisfaction:
    - Evaluate Customer and Employee Satisfaction
    - Model Satisfaction Drivers
    - Calculate Net Promoter Scores

We do everything in-house to ensure maximum quality control and fast response to meet our clients' needs. Our in-house research services include:

  • Project Management: A seasoned project director leads every project and handles all client contact.
  • Project Design: Our team crafts the appropriate technique to maximize the available research budget.
  • Sample & Questionnaire/Interview Guide Design: We formulate the survey instrument and sample design.
  • Data Collection: We have in-house resources for telephone, online, mail, and in-person interviews. For large-scale fieldwork interviewing projects that benefit from economies of scale, we turn to proven domestic call center partners.
  • Data Management: We have an in-house data processing department that handles data set management, data weighting, and tabulation generation.
  • Data Processing: Our in-house capabilities also include data entry and open-ended response cleaning and coding. This capability is another important advantage we offer clients. The industry practice is to use software or to outsource coding of open-ended responses.
  • Data Analysis: Our in-house capabilities include all forms of data analysis work.
  • Reporting: Our reports are delivered as either PowerPoint decks or Word documents, both written for busy managers with little time for "researchese," and both include related research-inspired actions.
  • Presentations: We present from boardrooms to large shareholder events.
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