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The don't know voters

The paper presents a model for investigating the don't know phenomenon in the elections. The model distinguishes four different types of don't know voters according to the way people are stopped or remain stopped in the elections. The testing of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Paula Hirstiö-Snellman

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1986

A launch test programme designed to predict market performance for new youth magazines

Test marketing new magazine ideas is not an economically feasible operation for I.P.C. Magazines' Youth Group. However, I.P.C.'s editorial and marketing expertise, gained over many years of publishing in the youth market, enables it to minimise the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Author: Hilary Cross

November 23, 1983

Getting the product mix strategy right via model for positioning assessment and potential prediction

This paper will describe a model and market measurement system which predicts new product potential at the concept/product stage of development and explicitly links the prediction to perceptions before and after use. The discussion includes model...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Robert L. Klein, Katherine A. Moore, Sandra K. Eubank

November 2, 1983

Assessor

With 10 years of use and 500 applications, ASSESSOR has enriched its capabilities as a model structure, has incorporated quite a few decision aids and is delivering experience data base services. The model is a simultaneous system which structures...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Jacques Blanchard, Carlos Harding

October 2, 1983

Pre-testing with rough prototype commercials

Pre-testing with rough prototype commercials is now an established procedure for U.S. advertisers and agencies. Rough prototypes, of the animatic artwork, still photo or live action "rough cut" variety can be inexpensively produced and evaluated for...

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

Author: Harold M. Spielman

June 15, 1983

Comparability in the measurement of advertising persuasion

Lego System A/S is pre-testing television commercials and print advertising in their major markets on a continuous basis. Lately, a validated standardised persuasion measure - the BUY(c)TEST - has been used in USA, France, Great Britain, Germany, and...

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

Authors: Arne Krogh Nielsen, Lorenz C. Andersen

June 15, 1983

Finding the cube route

The paper outlines the case history of Knorr seasoning cubes in Nigeria, from initial identification of an opportunity through mix development to brand launch. It examines the contribution of research, in pinpointing and evaluating possibilities,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Authors: David N. Aldridge, Arthur J. Shore, Michael Willey

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

Using cumulative pretest experiences to improve the effectiveness of radio commercials

The work reported here is based on a pretesting procedure developed by Radio Recall Research of Homdel, New Jersey, U.S.A. and analyzed by Drs. Sard and Sewall, Over the years pretested radio commercials have been classified on a wide variety of...

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

Authors: Dan Sarel, Murphy Sewall

June 15, 1983