Exploratory research for deepest consumer insights
We uncover and visualise consumers' mental maps.
We build a compass to let you know where and how to position your product and brand.
If your question sounds like these, you've come to the right place!
- What motivates women to wear make-up or stops them from using it?
- Breakfast rituals: what’s on the plate in France and Germany?
- What symbolism can be found in a fully automatic espresso machine, in a cleaning robot, in an electric face skin cleansing brush?
- What does ‘naturalness’ mean in various cultures?
- What is the role of the sauce in a pasta dish for Italians and for Germans respectively?
- What are the main barriers for German households to investing in the stock market?
Our online and in-person tools and techniques
Usage and Attitudes Studies (U&A) to investigate consumer behaviour
Social listening, social media monitoring
Cognitive interviewing about CX, UX, BX
Online consumer and user communities, online bulletin boards
User typologies, segmentation, personas
Behaviour observation, online diaries
Ethnographic interviews with your customers
Text data mining, upcycling of existing reports
Projective techniques and provocative questions
Free sorting/ Clustering of brands, categories and products
The other 3 pillars of our research expertise
Brand & Strategy Research
- Advertising impact
- Product re-launches (360° marketing checks)
- Packaging
- Prices & promotion
- Marketing mix coherence, portfolio
alignment
Shopper Research
- Shopping experience (online and offline)
- Optimal layout, co-creation with Do-It-YourShelf
- Shopping mood, shopping mission
- Loyalty drivers
Product & Packaging Test
- Opportunities for adopting new concepts and ideas (both products and services); addiction factor
- New formulas, flavours, fragrances, textures, colours, shapes, dosage forms, handling, devices, packaging materials, service components, names, claims, etc.
- Customer & user experience