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A new tool to better plan and control the marketing-activities for the 'outlet' of growing importance

The highly important but complicated channel of distribution - the vending machine, has not yet been covered by a market research institute as to the flow of products through it. Of course, we do have distribution data, but no information about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Author: Hein C. H. Schmidt

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1978

Control techniques in a sample survey

The analysis described in this report concerns the control techniques used in sample surveys , and is based on a ten-year experience made by field work in this area and specifically applied to the survey on the Italian Periodical Press Readership by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Angela Amoroso, Costantino Jannacone

June 15, 1979

Profit from research in social and legal context's

All designing a controlled experiment should begin with the design of the ideal experiment. If the ideal experiment cannot be executed because of financial, factual, moral, or legal obstacles, we should make a systematic effort to save the controlled...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Author: Hans Ziesel

August 23, 1981

TV advertising pre-testing

This is a case history of an attempt to use established, non- innovative research techniques to construct a system of T. V. advertisement pre-testing which could provide actionable results. For marketing management the research results must relate...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Roger S. Parkyn

September 1, 1976

A new method for measuring advertising effectiveness

For scientific elaboration of a media plan, planners have at their disposal audience surveys giving the numbers and characteristics of the readers, listeners or viewers. In order to optimize a media plan, information is necessary not only on the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1965: Measuring Advertising Effectiveness

Authors: Daniel Adam, John Parfitt

June 15, 1965

Specific problems of data collection and data control in industrial survey research

The purpose of this paper is to discuss certain specific problems associated with the collection of data in industrial survey research and to present information control procedures which can be set up to remedy those difficulties. It is proposed in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Ways And New Ways Of Data Collection

Author: Daniel Debomy

November 1, 1977

'Below-the-line spending' the need for understanding and control

SPAR has been designing, implementing, evaluating and executing promotional programs since 1967. Our approach has been successfully implemented in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. In the UK, through a joint agreement, AGB...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Author: William H. Bartels

November 6, 1985

Experience of a computer system for the quality control of interviewers

This paper describes a method of using the computer, as a stage of the checking process, to look for interviewers, who have cheated or deviated from the specified instructions. The method is simple and has often been recommended, but to our knowledge...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Authors: R. King, P. Trotman

Company: Nestlé

October 1, 1973

Prognoses today for the behaviour of tomorrow

Within the scope of the IHA method research programme we have endeavoured to develop a hypothesis under test which is capable of discerning continuous developments in the market, before these are measured in the form of buyers, or non buyers, as...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Josef Stofer

August 1, 1975