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New product sales forecasting recent bases model experiences in Europe and in the United States

This paper shows that a standardised concept/in-home use test, if properly designed, executed and interpreted, can provide a very accurate data base for forecasting new product sales volume and its sales components. To reduce the risk of introducing...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Alain Pioche, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1982

Price sensitivity, does it increase during a recession?

In this paper, the authors describe a method which has been tested over many years. It offers a means for testing the sales effect of price decisions before the new price has been released on the market. Thus marketing companies can evaluate pricing...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Alain Pioche, Lynn Y.S. Lin, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1984

Predicting sales volume and market shares

The paper argues the case for extending the value of much market research data concerned with concept testing, concept/product use testing and usage and attitude tracking studies by employing modelling systems to predict sales volume or market...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: New Product Development

Authors: Peter Sampson, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

November 2, 1983

Estimating sales volume potential for new innovative products with case histories

Estimating sales volume potential for new innovative products is generally quite difficult. Traditional comparative measurement methods of presenting to potential consumers some competitive products along with the new unique product is obviously not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1986: Anticipation And Decision Making

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Alain Pioche, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1986

The use of research in socio-political decisions

The authors put forward a personal view of the development of social research in Italy since the end of World War II. They describe some of the difficulties inherent in commissioning and interpreting this type of research. Examples are given about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Vincenzo Cesareo, Patrick G. M. Standen

June 15, 1977

Measuring awareness, do we measure advertising effects?

This paper describes the use of awareness tracking data to monitor differences in commercial quality and increases in brand awareness in time. It describes the relationships between awareness variations due to advertising spending and the quality of...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Patrick G. M. Standen

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1984

Recall and persuasion

Over a two year period the authors have been involved in the development of a new commercial testing system, that brings together, for the first time, measures of on-air recall and persuasion. The system named AD-VISOR, became officially operational...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Authors: Patrick G. M. Standen, Stephen Factor

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

Towards the elimination of risk from investment in new products

This paper sets out to show how a technique which was originally developed simply as a means of eliminating the fundamentally unacceptable product before it incurred substantial losses in test market, has shown itself to be capable of much more. The...

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

Authors: D. Reay, Brian C. Pymont, Patrick G. M. Standen

September 1, 1976

Customer satisfaction management in the banking sector

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of the proper management of Customer Satisfaction, in a sector, such as banking, that has seen enormous development in competition over the past few years. The paper will initially examine one or...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Banking And Insurance- Pressure On Profits, Pressure On Research

Authors: Patrick G. M. Standen, Stefano M. Castellani

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1992