Your Market Research Is Flawed. Here's How To Change That.

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Your Market Research is Flawed! Here’s How to Change That!

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"Your Market Research Is Flawed. Here's How to Change That" is a presentation by Ravin Shah, the founder of QuickTapSurvey, the highest rated mobile data capture app on the App store! The presentation was made on Oct 29, 2014 at the #MarketersUnbound event in Toronto. It was organized by Marketers Without Borders, and sponsored and hosted by Wealthsimple. The key presentation themes are: • best market research tools and methods • how to approach market research in B2B vs. B2C • how to get more genuine feedback • if you must ask one question, it should be...

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Your Market Research is Flawed!

Here’s How to Change That!

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What is Market Research?

Market research is any organized effort to gather information about target markets or customers.

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Why is it important?

Understanding the needs and pains of your target market can be the difference between SUCCESS and FAILURE.

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Famous Failure

The disastrous launch of New Coke in 1985!

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Common Mistakes

Researching the wrong group

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Common Mistakes

Asking too many irrelevant questions

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Common Mistakes

Using family and friends as your focus group

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Common Mistakes

Not offering people an incentive

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Common Mistakes

Not using modern research tools

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B2C vs. B2B

Key difference is in the target audience and how to relate to them.

• B2C – Need to relate with consumers• B2B – Need to relate with businesses

General principles are the same

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Research Methods

Primary - Creation of studies to answer specific questions

Secondary - Use of existing research

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Research Tools

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Getting Genuine Feedback

• Get it directly from the source• Ask only relevant questions (use skip

logic) • Make it a painless conversation• Make it a positive experience

The quality of your decisions will be determined by the quality of your information.

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One Question

What are the biggest challenges you face around…

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Thank You!

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