Increase online conversion by reducing psychological distance
From clicks to cart: making smarter use of product images
In today’s crowded online marketplace, we all face the same challenge: how do we attract and convert shoppers? While increased media spend is an almost guaranteed way of attracting more people to an online platform, getting them to actually buy is a whole different ball game. Many online retail giants aren’t forthcoming with behavioral data, so knowing how visitors think and behave from the time they land on the platform until they check out, is a blind spot for many of us.
How VodafoneZiggo optimized its portfolio by better predicting consumer choices online
Understanding decision-making and choice overload in crowded markets
In today’s highly competitive telecommunications market, consumers face an abundance of choices online. To thrive in this environment, your product portfolio strategy should be optimized based on how decision-making is changing. You need to know how customers identify the best carrier and plan for their needs. And that’s where the most accurate customer and market insights can help.
Machine Learning: Top takeaways from MRS Data Analytics Conference
Exploring expert views on AI and the role of ‘stats’ in market research
Machine Learning (ML) is everywhere, from social media and virtual assistants to financial services and data security. For sales and marketing professionals, machine learning offers unprecedented analysis of big data. It holds the potential to decode increasingly layered buyer journeys. However, does machine learning truly have a role in market research, a field where we rely on analytical methods to understand nuanced and complex decision-making? Or, is statistical thinking still the essential analytical element behind the insights we deliver today?
The unique approach a charcoal brand used to fire up tasty product claims
Launching a premium product means convincing consumers to trade up, without driving them to the competition.
This is the exact challenge faced by the Global Insights Manager at a best-selling charcoal brand as she prepared to launch two new premium products.
The brand offers various charcoal products and sauces which have been synonymous with American BBQs for decades. As consumer grilling tastes have evolved, the brand recognized there were unmet needs among the most enthusiastic grilling aficionados.
The result was the development of new premium products. However, this innovation posed its own set of marketing challenges. The original product remained popular; the brand couldn’t risk putting claims on the premium packaging that would negatively impact its baseline product.
How Kellogg’s built a global insights platform for claims tests
From a single corn flake to a global presence, Kellogg’s has been fueling better days for more than a century. Today, the food-manufacturing giant markets 24 brands, in 180 countries. The sheer size of Kellogg’s, coupled with today’s changing insights environment, created a daunting challenge for the company’s global insights team last year.
How could they decrease turnaround times for claims research, standardize approaches for comparability of results, while extracting better insights and decreasing costs all at the same time?
Achieving big impact with small HCP samples
How to unlock the numbers in niche indications by using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
If you’re in a highly specialized area, such as MedTech or rare diseases, you’ll be only too familiar with the challenges of working with small sample sizes. Qualitative insights are important but when go/no go decisions are at stake, you may need a more data-driven approach. But, how can you obtain robust market data for decision-making when your target population and treating physicians are limited?
How Constellation Brands is overcoming mobile shopping challenges in the alcohol category
Is your eCommerce strategy attracting and converting consumers?
The shift to online ordering for alcohol has grown significantly in recent years, and with it, there have been new challenges and opportunities that brands face in eCommerce. Lisa Caro, Director of Insights & Analytics for Emerging Opportunities, Constellation Brands, and Elizabeth Kadrich, SKIM, discussed how Constellation Brands turned to mobile-optimized images to influence shopper behavior.
How pricing research is helping FMCG brands fight inflation in developing countries
When inflation hits, your pricing strategy inevitably feels the pressure. On the one hand, raising product prices will protect margins. On the other, you can’t risk pricing yourself out of the market. When consumers feel this pressure, their spending habits are likely to change, especially in developing countries and high-inflation regions.
Why it’s time to optimize your approach to brand trackers
Explore a driver analysis solution for analyzing stated and unstated factors
Tracking studies provide extensive information on brand perceptions over time. They play an important role in understanding what influences consumers and professionals to make decisions. However, as these groups become more empowered and have more choices to consider, your approach to brand trackers needs to evolve as well.
Optimizing subscription pricing with a new approach to segmentation research
Today’s subscription economy not only presents consumers with more choices, but also more personalized experiences. For telecom, tech and online brands these heightened expectations place even greater pressure on maximizing the revenue per user.
Whereas in the past you could position your products and services based on traditional demographic insights, those rules no longer apply today — especially when it comes to pricing.