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Innovation

In the 1960's Tom and Audrey Eyton started a bi-monthly magazine, Slimming and Nutrition, working on their kitchen table at home. It cost them £2,000 to start: some years ago they sold it to a big publisher for £4,000,000. That’s...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Publishing For Optimum Profit

Author: Michael Bird

November 25, 1987

Pricing research what should we actually remeasuring?

Pricing research should help companies to calculate the optimum price for each of their products, in order for companies to achieve their basic goal: Profitability. Pricing research however often fails to do this. Indeed, despite the large number of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Authors: Martine Leroy-Sharman, Ian Tinn

June 15, 1987

Profit from planned publishing

This paper is not so much about magazines or micros as about management, and in particular the use of information in management decisions. It just happens that the writer's business is magazines and he has found in the microcomputer the ideal tool...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Quality In Publishing

Author: Michael Bird

November 27, 1985

'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

A book as a mass product

The Marketing Oriented approach and the use of appropriate tools in terms of Advertising and Market Research permit to obtain successful results not only in the traditional Mass Market markets, but also in the market of pocket books sold by...

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

Authors: Arnaldo Aisa, Silvana Biasutti

November 6, 1985

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

Optimizing profitability through research amongst retail customers and staff

The study provided measures of the standing of W.H. Smith and its competition on specially-collected attitude dimensions. It also identified which aspects of the staff or the service they provide matter most to customers, and showed how the intensity...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Fred Y. Phillips, Robert Falconer

August 23, 1981

The role of the employee in retail profitability

In 1976, Woolworth's management were given a clear indication that a problem existed when MORI presented the findings of a major study they had carried out on the attitudes of Woolworth employees to the company. Although the main objective of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Keith Willoughby, Robert M. Worcester

Company: IPSOS

August 23, 1981

Profitably using research to identify, develop and launch a new product

The joint paper is given by the then European Marketing Manager of a major brewery company together with an Italian Qualitative Research Consultant who has worked closely with this client over a period of several years. The paper describes the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1981: Research For Profitability

Authors: Michael G. Vineall, Clara Origlia

August 23, 1981