
Brand Research 101: Following the Funnel
While the idea of a brand funnel is straightforward, proper deployment is crucial for ongoing brand tracking, development, and action.
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While the idea of a brand funnel is straightforward, proper deployment is crucial for ongoing brand tracking, development, and action.

Benefit-Value Analysis is a proprietary methodology developed by Martec to gain insights from an intended market to determine appropriate and acceptable pricing strategies on products before they are introduced and released into the marketplace.

Facilitating modern focus groups and research panels requires more than just asking questions—it’s about building trust, understanding entire industries, and creating environments where participants feel comfortable sharing valuable insights.

Price-Value Mapping analyzes the relationship between what customers value about your brand or product and the price they are willing to pay. In this case, a category-leading automotive aftermarket parts manufacturer was faced with a crossroads: Continue to support multiple sub-brands that competed in the same market and at similar price points, or make the difficult decision to discontinue one of the brands?

As brands strive to understand what drives consumer actions, emotions, and motivations, effective audience segmentation is key to creating tailored strategies that resonate. Exploring different ways to segment audiences and how it allows brands to gain richer insights into the forces shaping consumer or customer decisions.

Modern technology has conspired with tried-and-true best practices to make “focus groups” more powerful and more effective than ever.