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Testing new product ideas

There is a limit to what one should expect from concept testing even under the best of circumstances. Often it is difficult to develop a product that will live up to the promise of the concept, or to develop a presentation of a concept that will do...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Bud Sherak

September 1, 1966

The meaning of "comparability" in multi-country research and how to achieve it

The basic themes of this paper are firstly that the idea of 'comparability' in relation to multi-country surveys needs to be examined specifically in relation to the market situation, and secondly that achieving comparability in this sense depends...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Robert L. Day

September 1, 1966

Test marketing

The case for test marketing is now widely accepted, and most of us here have been involved in carrying out research for test markets. The risks associated with modern mass marketing are so considerable that manufacturers gladly avail themselves of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: David Brown

September 1, 1966

The relationship between researchers and creative people

This paper aims to examine in rather more detail the reasons for some of the unhappy relationships, and suggests five specific approaches which could make progress in eliminating the underlying causes. There seem to be three main areas of troubles :...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Stephen King

June 16, 1966

A reassessment of the role of the pre-test in advertising research

What I would like to do is to suggest that ad pre-testing (or "copy-testing") techniques can be simplified considerably and their efficiency greatly improved by a reassessment of the role which the pre-test should play in improving the effectiveness...

Catalogue: Seminar 1966: The Role of Market Research In The Creation of Advertising

Author: Peter A. Rusby

June 1, 1966

Qualitative typology and its significance in market analysis

To build a significant typology, two variables must be taken into consideration: l) objective characterisation, 2) attitude. Each must be measured independently. For example, it appears reasonable to say: those who earn a lot of money (measurement of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Authors: Herbert Steiner, Lothar Neffe, Maria Rita Girardi

June 15, 1965

The Delta Copy Test

We decided to improve the diagnostic and prognostic value of our copy tests and conducted a number of experiments which measured the effect of advertising in terms of changes of attitudes towards the advertising product or service. The Delta Copy...

Catalogue: Seminar 1965: Measuring Advertising Effectiveness

Author: Otto W. Rohde

June 15, 1965

Basic research for product planning and product development

If a manufacturer of domestic appliances wants his product planning and product-development to be profitable in the long run, he will have to obtain some knowledge about the circumstances in which housewives do their work, besides analysing the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Sander de Leve

Company: Philips International

June 15, 1965

What is the market researcher doing in an advertising agency?

The contribution that market research can make to advertising it is, of course, important to test finished advertisements, both before and after publication. However, this is not the main contribution that market research can make to advertising. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Paul Howard Berent

June 15, 1965