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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

How useful is proposition testing?

Arguments about proposition testing tend to generate much warmth but relatively little light. The situation remains confused. Among advertisers there is a whole spectrum of views, ranging from firm belief to total disillusionment. Most agency and...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1966

Author: Stephen King

August 1, 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

Pupil response as a means of evaluating television commercials

Today we are reporting on the first test carried out in England. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the basis of pupil response I will describe it very briefly. The technique is based on the fact that in constant light conditions the pupil of...

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

Authors: Gareth Johns, Jack Potter

June 1, 1966

A short method of testing the brand image

This paper will give a report on a practical procedure for obtaining information, with a minimum outlay of time and money, on the most important factors of a brand image to be tested.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1965

Author: Lois Pavlis

June 15, 1965

Is the tree-test applicable as auxiliary mean for poll-research?

In poll-research we have increasingly to solve functions concerning the character of people. In order to do this we need suitable methods for diagnoses, but specially such methods which are applicable to our current polls, and not only to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1963

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1963

A multidimensional test for measurement and prognosis of interviewers' aptitudes

The following is a report on a method to select interviewers. According to the variety of interviewer effects and errors caused by Interviewers this method had to follow a multidimensional conception. It was designed to allow: 1. A proper selection...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Otto Walter Haseloff

June 15, 1961

Methods of quantification in motivation research (German)

The recognition of those motives, which, arising from the unconscious or subconscious, become motivations for a certain irrational or "illogical” attitude, is not sufficient for the planning of advertising or sales campaigns, nor even for the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Peter Smolensky

June 15, 1961

A multidimensional test for measurement and prognosis of interviewers' aptitudes (French)

The following is a report on a method to select interviewers. According to the variety of interviewer effects and errors caused by Interviewers this method had to follow a multidimensional conception. It was designed to allow: 1. A proper selection...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Otto Walter Haseloff

June 15, 1961