Research
Organizations that are long-term successful -- "Built to Last" -- craft strategy based on data. It's a matter of "we know from the research" rather than "we think."
Marketing Acuity works with or augments its clients' research teams to gather critical strategic data about customers, the market, and products (and services).
Customer Research and the Voice-of-the-Customer
The customer. It's our reason for being. Marketing Acuity's research services start with the customer, listening carefully to what they're saying about our clients and their products, as well as what they're not saying.
Using a variety of techniques for gathering voice-of-the-customer data, we've helped organizations identify opportunities for new product lines and services, elevate customer service levels, and become a more strategic partner to their customers. An added bonus: customers simply appreciate the fact that they are being asked for their opinion.
Market Research
How large is the market in terms of potential customers? What is our share relative to our competitors? How much do customers in each market segment spend, on average? What trends and forces will affect our business in the next year? Five years?
Marketing Acuity helps its clients answer these questions before major investments are made in capital, operations or territory expansions, and sales and marketing.
Product Research
It's well known that half of all new products and services fail -- either failing to make the projected profits, failing technically, or failing to be accepted by customers.
Research on product failures has concluded that most failures could have been prevented with a more up-front research, especially in the "fuzzy front end" stages of product development.
Marketing Acuity specializes in product innovation and the research that can help companies increase product success rates -- determining feasibility across factors such as market and customer acceptance, financial, operational, legal and intellectual, and marketing and sales launch. We can augment your product development teams and have advanced training and certifications in Stage-Gate® and other product innovation processes.
Marketing Acuity Customer Research Tools and Methodologies
For most projects, an approach that combines quantitative tools with qualitative techniques yields the most actionable data. Interviews with decision makers and open-ended survey questions are particularly valuable sources of voice-of-the-customer information. Marketing Acuity employs market research tools such as:
- Quantitative survey creation, deployment, and statistical analysis
- Qualitative tools – interview guide writing, interviewing, and analysis of potential, current customers, or competitor's customers
- Focus groups
- "Open Ends" analysis
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Contact Marketing Acuity about assisting with market research for your organization.
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