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Predicting sales volume and market shares

The paper argues the case for extending the value of much market research data concerned with concept testing, concept/product use testing and usage and attitude tracking studies by employing modelling systems to predict sales volume or market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Peter Sampson, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

November 2, 1983

Comparative industrial buying patterns in high level economies

Despite the fact that well over 1000 articles appeared on industrial purchasing in the past two decades, relatively little progress has been made toward understanding and predicting buyer behaviour patterns. The key reason for this phenomenon, in our...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: Peter M. Banting, David Ford, Andrew C. Gross, George Holmes

June 15, 1983

Can pretesting be validated?

In talking here about pre-testing we are not concerned with decisions about budget setting or about the choice of media, or about the various aspects of campaign scheduling. We are dealing exclusively with content, the design of the advertisements as...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Effective Advertising- Can Research Help?

Authors: John Downham, Tony Twyman

Company: Unilever

June 15, 1983

Strategic planning is not dead but different

The strategic planning process has changed very significant since the early 1970s. Planning has changed in terms of scope (it needs to encompass a mere diverse range of publics) in terms of time span (the need fox' greater flexibility dictates...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: Martin van Mesdag

June 15, 1983

Multivariate data analysis and consumer behaviour

The purpose of this communications is to review the main applications of multivariate methods to a preeminent area of marketing research consumer behavior. Three areas of application are distinguished, based on a paradigm of consumer behavioral...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Yves Evrard

June 15, 1982

Pre-classifying consumers

This paper discusses current and future developments in the ways pre-classification can be used. The paper particularly examines the use of small area statistics linked to other data bases. A suggestion is also made as to how pre- classification can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Bill Blyth

June 15, 1982

The current state of methodological developments in the multivariate analysis of surveys

The paper considers the current state of multivariate analysis when the data available only take the form of binary and classified variables. This restriction has meant that researchers have had to develop new techniques to deal with problems of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Paul Harris

June 15, 1982

Off the beaten track

This paper deals with new methods of determining target groups in media research. Over the past three decades, media research has essentially developed in response to the advertising industry's interest in information about how large segments of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Friedrich W. R. Tennstädt

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1982

Practical use of consumer panels

The paper provides a comparison of some aspects of Consumer panel operations in Canada and the United States with those in Europe. The main difference is the method of recruitment, the use of mail and telephone in North America compared with personal...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Ivor McGloughlin, Jim Lockyear

June 15, 1982