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Market research in the USSR: Reducing its costs and improving quality

The paper describes effective methods of solving problems that appeared in the durable consumer goods market (TV-sets) in the early 70's. In spite of time limitations the research program was successfully carried out at a rather low cost. The studies...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: B. A. Soloviov, A. B. Feldman, B. A. Khramtsov

September 1, 1978

A low-cost approach to the development of a new sales management tool (French)

The problem we had to resolve was of the simplest kind - the kind that can be handled in a matter of seconds by referring either to experience or to the findings of a survey panel, at least for a business working in ordinary kinds of market: that of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Michel Barjanski, Jean-Louis Laborie

September 1, 1978

An example of syndicate research

This paper shows an example of the optimization and reduction of a research budget. In 1977 an important research took place, based on 700 telephone interviews, 300 complete descriptions of stores, 300 interviews with points of sale managers, and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Francis Georgel, Jean-Pierre Piotet, Michel Haski

September 1, 1978

Research to aid the design of cost-effective holiday brochures

Survey research has played a central role in the development of the Thomson Holidays brochure style. This paper looks in detail at research conducted at two stages in this development when the approach to the brochure design was reviewed and will...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Cathy Riley, Nigel Spackman

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 1, 1978

BASIS

The mnemonic BASIS stands for Bottlers’ Accounting and Sales Information System. It is a computer software package designed and supported by The COCA-COLA Company and its purpose is to enable franchised bottlers of Coca-Cola to economically use...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Marketing Management Information Systems

Author: H. W. Stahel

Company: The Coca-Cola Company

February 2, 1977

The IJF-Questionnaire (German)

For more than 5 years, - since existence of the Institut fur Jugendforschung (IJF), Munich, - IJF has been using a questionnaire system which has demonstrated considerable advantages compared with customary opinion poll procedures, as regards costs,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Kurt H. Benz, Detlef Rlemer

August 1, 1975

The IJF-Questionnaire

For more than 5 years, - since existence of the Institut fur Jugendforschung (IJF), Munich, - IJF has been using a questionnaire system which has demonstrated considerable advantages compared with customary opinion poll procedures, as regards costs,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Detlef Rlemer, Kurt H. Benz

August 1, 1975

Practical considerations of the technique of telephone interviewing

The paper concerns with the practical aspects of telephone interviewing, but does not attempt to enter discussion concerning the characteristics of the telephone owning population. The authors have had experience over the past two years of using the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Derek Simonds, Gordon Haymes

September 1, 1974

A consumer segmentation using a standardised technology

The technology we are going to describe has been developed as a composite procedure, which retains flexibility, whilst solving the problems of interlocking complex interviewing and analysis systems. We have named this composite system, The Consumer...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Authors: Geoffrey M. Bickers, Gordon Haymes

June 15, 1972