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Customer Insight Tools: Turning Insight Into Effective Marketing Strategies

Related Programs
  Business Marketing Strategy
  Consumer Marketing Strategy
  Managing Customer Relationships for Profit
 

Upcoming Sessions
  October 5-8, 2008
$ 5,500
  March 8-11, 2009
$ 5,800
  October 4-7, 2009
$ 5,800
   
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Understand the importance of a customer insight-driven business strategy
Develop an insightful relationship with customers by understanding their rational and emotional needs 
Understand the role of ethnography in developing new customer insights
Understand when you should trust a marketing research study and when you should be cautious
Ask the right questions of your marketing researchers in order to gain valuable and actionable customer information 
Make appropriate decisions with the customer information that is gathered
Obtain more accurate forecasts for new products
Gain maximum value from your market research expenditures
 
 
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Uncovering insights about your customers is essential for developing products and services that deliver value to the customer and generate profit for your organization. But while companies spend millions of dollars on expensive market research, how much actionable customer insight is actually being created? What should you do with the data generated by your marketing research? How do you unlock insight-- and value--from the customer information gathered? Many consumer products giants have been able to take advantage of the insights gained from their customers, but such success is also possible for other firms.

For companies in both B-to-B and B-to-C environments, this program will provide users of market research with the skills to ask the right questions and make the right decisions in order to gain sustainable competitive advantages.

The program provides a thorough understanding of how the right blend of qualitative and quantitative marketing research tools can be used to gain powerful, valid insights into customer needs and perceptions. Building a marketing strategy based upon deep customer insight can give a firm a powerful competitive advantage. This program helps managers achieve that goal.  

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Program Content

Creating a Customer Insight-Driven Organization

No Marketing Research Is Better Than Bad >Marketing Research

Understanding Consumers

Understanding B-to-B Customers

Quantitative Tools

Experimentation In Marketing and Test Marketing

Comprehensive Case Study


Format
Discussion, case analysis, and exercises facilitate participation and involvement in the seminar. In the evenings, participants work in study groups to prepare for the next day's case analyses.

Who Should Attend
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