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The role of research in developing Europeanwide corporate communications

Industrial organizations are increasingly being faced with the challenge of deciding how best to communicate - on a European-wide basis - not just with their customers, suppliers, and shareholders, but with a wider audience of stakeholders. These...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Richard Beswick, David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

June 15, 1991

All of the people all of the time: Using advanced autodialer technology with CATI software

The paper describes the implementation of a system using a CATI package and a predictive or statistical autodialer. The autodialer has the capacity to detect if a human voice has answered the telephone and make a connection to an available...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: How To Cope With Data Overload

Authors: Andrew Jeavons, Ed Ross

June 15, 1990

Marie Claire in Italy

Two years after the October 1987 launch of the Italian edition of the women's monthly Marie Claire, product of the collaboration between Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and the French publisher Marie Claire Album (Prouvost Group), the title has, on the one...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Authors: Luisa Pogliana, Arnaldo Aisa

June 15, 1990

New research possibilities by computerised personal interviewing

From telephone interviewing and then computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) the last few years have brought along two new systems of datacollection by means of personal interviews. One is the Telepanel-system, which consists of a random...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Leo van Doorn, Theo Hess

Company: NIPO

September 1, 1988

The validity and efficiency of data collection using screen interviews compared with telephone research

This paper describes the results of a methodological test conducted by NOW Research, on behalf of British Telecom - PRESTEL. The purpose of the research was to assess the validity and efficiency of collecting market research data through the medium...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Authors: David Baker, Cliff Holmes

September 1, 1987

Telephone, mail and other techniques

This chapter is still concerned with occasions when the ‘standard’ forms of interviewing are inappropriate, though before a fourth edition of this work appears it seems likely that such a definition will need revision. In general terms...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Authors: Leonard R. England, Peter Arnold

August 1, 1986

Problem solving in industrial marketing research in the Middle East

The paper presents the practical difficulties that an industrial researcher faces when undertaking a survey in the Middle Bast. The techniques and the approach are overall the same as in the West, but the task is that much harder. Desk research is...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Authors: George V. Vassiliou, Costas Kaimakis

Company: MEMRB

June 15, 1986

Readership surveys in business markets

Over recent years, our company has been engaged in several readership studies both by personal face to face and by telephone methods amongst businessmen in general and amongst specific target groups of businessmen. In the following, I should like to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: New Developments In Media Research

Author: Erhard Meier

June 15, 1986

How research is used to solve industrial marketing problems

We all know from our experience that amongst companies selling to non-consumer markets there is a wide divergence in the importance assigned to market research, the resources devoted to it and the way in which it is used, It was in order to quantify...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Problem Solving In Industrial Marketing

Author: Janet Levin

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

June 15, 1986