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Maximising the effectiveness of direct response television advertising

Direct Response Advertising (i.e. Ads with telephone numbers) on television is growing. It is in the interests of all to try to ensure the medium is used with maximum efficiency. This study merges two sets of data, the audience to DRTV commercials...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Advertising, Sponsorship And Promotions

Authors: Richard Fielding, Hugh Johnson

June 15, 1995

Branding in Central and Eastern Europe

In this paper we describe the findings of major global study as they apply to Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided into two parts. In the first part we describe some of the technical issues involved in conducting so large a study in this region....

Catalogue: CEE Conference 1995: Towards A Market Economy

Author: Jim Williams

April 1, 1995

Changing data collection methods means different kind of data

Information technology has improved to such an extent that computer assistance is now possible for telephone interviews (CATI) as well as for personal interviews (CAPI). Data quality is increased by using the computer because sequential effects are...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Information Technology- How Can Research Keep Up With The Peace Of Change

Author: Gerd Meier

Company: GfK

January 1, 1995

Building universal brand equity

This paper compares the nature of the response to advertising in different parts of the world. The paper shows that people's reactions to advertising are a normal part of every individual’s repertoire of response behavior employed in all manner...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Author: Michael F. Cramphorn

September 1, 1994

Beyond focus groups

The purpose of the paper is to explain a new method - editing groups - of understanding viewers' response to programmes. The paper begins by questioning the claims that qualitative researchers make for research using focus groups. It argues that,...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Andrea Millwood Hargrave, Brent Macgregor, David E. Morrison

May 1, 1994

Hard to get respondents

Media surveys are very often used as a basis for demographic data within a market. While carrying out these surveys "Hard-to-Get Respondents" are often tackled at the field level or even later on by weighting. This paper is on a study carried out to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/MERF/IAA Conference 1994: Challenges And Opportunities For Research In The Middle East

Authors: Sanjay Badhe, Titoo Ahluwalia

January 1, 1994

Developing and using a consumer panel to assist book marketing

This paper is divided into three sections. The first deals with some of the main points derived from the Adams Readers' Panel which bear on the title. The marketing of books is an order of magnitude more difficult than the marketing of most products,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: Competition In Publishing

Author: James Adams

June 15, 1993

Myth or reality?

This paper discusses London Underground's continuous Customer attitude research program: known as the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). It is written in the spirit of describing the genesis of an actionable management information tool: one that now...

Catalogue: Seminar 1993: The Ideal Product, The Ideal Costumer, The Ideal Company?

Authors: Mark G. J. Hodson, Robert Falconer

June 15, 1993

Market research for mergers and acquisitions

The number of M&A transactions involving German firms has risen sharply since the mid-1980s. An important influencing factor was the development of the internal market of the European Community. The demand for professional services in the area of...

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

Author: Hans-Jürgen Kräh

June 15, 1992