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A study of the decision processes in the selection of an advertising agency

Lintas London has collaborated with MIL Research in a study among leading British advertisers as a guide to the Advertising Agency on how best to promote itself and gain new clients. The two main areas of research were: - Decision processes in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Authors: Gerald de Groot, S. Orwell

June 15, 1971

Election polls

The election polls as now operated have few prospects to offer. This is also true if we confine ourselves to the causes of error brought about by insufficiencies in the questionnaire and leave out of consideration the purely technical aspect of...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1971

Author: R. P. Greiner

June 15, 1971

A comparison of sales forecasting methods

The purpose of this article is to present a comparison of three alternative methods for sales forecasting - trend analysis, time series analysis and regression analysis. Rather than looking at the theoretical differences, the focus is on practical...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1971

Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Steven Wheelwright

June 15, 1971

The people and gold

The People and Gold is the title of a consumer research project carried out by InterScan during 1969. The project was concerned with investigating the consumer markets for gold in a number of countries. We took the title from one of the items in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Multi-Country Research

Author: M. Haines

June 15, 1971

Some anomalies in advertising research terminology

The process here described is quite straightforward in concept, although highly complex mathematically. It is not the purpose of this paper to discuss in detail the technicalities, and it will be sufficient to remark that the factor Analysis used in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Translating Advanced Advertising Theories Into Research Reality

Authors: F. Harmar-Brown, P. Macarte

June 15, 1971

Realities in research and advertising

One of the realities of advertising research is continuous, usually syndicated, research on recognition and recall, and - roughly these last five years - of intent-to-buy. That seems to go on whatever the latest fashion in schools of thought (or...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Translating Advanced Advertising Theories Into Research Reality

Author: Jan Stapel

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1971

Test and physical simulation of schemes directed to the consumers

At a time where Market Testing is criticized for its costs and mathematical modelling is developed, sometimes imprudently, one has not to forget about the potential of Physical Micro Modelling, as well as Physical Simulation. Reason why we have...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Below-The-Line Activities

Author: Jacques Bonnafont

June 15, 1971

The application of panel techniques to promotion measurement

The subject of this paper is the measurement of the sales effect of promotions by the analysis of consumer behaviour in terms of penetration and repeat purchasing. The type of penetration/ repeat purchasing analysis required for this purpose, and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Below-The-Line Activities

Author: John Parfitt

June 15, 1971

A recent in-store experiment for pre-testing promotions

This paper presents the findings of the experiment for one of the product groups tested and shows to what extent our objectives were achieved. It points out the difficulties encountered in carrying out a test of this kind and furthermore, the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Below-The-Line Activities

Author: R. Chib

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1971