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Customer Intelligence

Uncover and analyze qualitative and quantitative customer intelligence, CX research, and audience personas.

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eBook: Measuring and Optimizing the Customer Experience

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Consumer & B2B2C

It is critical, when analyzing and working to optimize customer experiences, that three primary tenets of sound CX design be woven deeply into the fabric of the analysis, even when using artificial intelligence or other technology to do some of the information gathering and processing.

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How to Use Customer Segmentation to Answer the Difficult Questions Driving Consumer Behavior

Segmentation & Persona Development, Voice of Customer

Customer segmentation is much more than merely “categorizing” customers along traditional baseline filters: demographics, geographics, psychographics, and prior purchase history. While those data points are useful as far as they go, they simply don’t go deep enough.

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Customer Experience: Humans Experiencing Human Emotions & Making Moments to Remember

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Voice of Customer

Why a customer chooses to buy, and when, and whether that customer can be retained, whether he or she will become a vocal brand advocate, and why that customer chose our product or service over a competitor’s represent the secret sauce to replicating that behavior in others—creating customer experiences that drive future sales. But without understanding the why, you are more or less guessing at the what you are trying to replicate.

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How Emotion Intelligence Can Enhance the Customer Journey and Drive Business

Voice of Customer

AI-empowered methodology known as Emotion Intelligence (EI) has been helping brands better understand their customers’ and prospective customers’ buying inclinations, so that they can engineer optimal experiences that will appeal to humans’ emotional tendencies (and even their apprehensions) to facilitate exceptional customer experiences and increase sales.

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Apostle Analysis: How to Identify and Augment Your Brand’s Most Loyal Fans

Apostle Analysis is a model that categorizes customers based on their likelihood to repurchase and their overall satisfaction with a brand. By using a structured framework, businesses can pinpoint their most valuable customers and identify at-risk segments.

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Emily Bielak Invited on Podcast to Offer Customer Experience Insights

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Emotion Intelligence, Segmentation & Persona Development, Voice of Customer

Martec Director Emily Bielak was recently invited onto the Bullhorns and Bullseyes Podcast to share how brands can learn, understand, and leverage the emotional drivers that decide customer preference, convert customers into advocates, and elevate advocates to "apostles."

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Martec Partner Invited on DeskTalks Podcast to Talk VOC

Segmentation & Persona Development, Voice of Customer

Martec Partner Josh Emington recently joined the DeskTalks podcast to cover everything from data overload to the "research graveyard" to what separates organizations that truly embed VOC into strategy from those that merely collect feedback and file it away.

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The Feedback Loop is the New Alpha

Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Innovation Research, Automotive & Mobility, Consumer & B2B2C, Food & Beverage

There is a quiet arms race happening in product development right now, and it has nothing to do with who has the best model, the biggest engineering team, or the most advanced tech stack. The teams pulling ahead, the ones building products that customers actually love, are winning on something deceptively simple: the speed and frequency of their user feedback cycles.

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The Impact of AI on Commercial Due Diligence

Commercial Due Diligence, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Private Equity

This latest installment in our series on CDD is about drawing the line clearly: where AI accelerates CDD, where it creates risk, and where the frontier is heading. Because the firms that get this right will have a genuine edge. And the firms that outsource diligence to a chatbot will learn the hard way that LLMs (Large Language Models) don't have deal judgment, real-time human input from primary research, or accountability to a consultant who is proud to stand behind their conclusions, recommendations, predictions, and advice.

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Competitive Intelligence in Commercial Due Diligence

Commercial Due Diligence, Competitive Intelligence, Private Equity

Competitive analysis, benchmarking, and positioning are critical building blocks underpinning effective commercial due diligence. Without the context of other players' share, growth trajectories, capabilities/resources, intellectual property, and go-to-market strategies, growth estimates and feasibility assessments are likely inaccurate. Simply put: you cannot understand a company without understanding the field on which it plays.

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Winning in Export Markets Requires More Than Showing Up

Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Food & Beverage

One of the most persistent gaps in export promotion is the distance between how boards think about their markets and how buyers in those markets actually make purchasing decisions. That means that a market can look highly promising from a strategic planning perspective while presenting significant friction at the transactional level, friction that determines whether a first order becomes a second one.

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Post-Close Value Creation: Why the Real Work Starts After the Deal Closes

Commercial Due Diligence, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Strategic Planning, Private Equity

The highest-performing PE teams don’t treat value creation as a separate phase from diligence. They connect them. They use diligence not just to decide whether to buy, but to build the first actionable roadmap for what to do once they own. Post-close is where the investment thesis either becomes a repeatable plan or gets buried in PowerPoint promises.

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The Hard-to-Reach Imperative

Brand Research, Commercial Due Diligence, Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Research, Market Sizing & Opportunity Assessment, Pricing Research, Strategic Planning, Voice of Customer

In complex B2B markets, the individuals who hold the most meaningful insights are often the least accessible. When researchers reach the right voices, even when doing so requires creativity, persistence, and unconventional approaches, the insights gained are often more nuanced, more grounded, and far more actionable.

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Sentiment Analysis: Understanding the Emotional Drivers Behind Brand Affinity

Brand Research, Customer Experience & Journey Mapping, Emotion Intelligence, Segmentation & Persona Development, Voice of Customer, Building & Construction, Consumer & B2B2C, Food & Beverage

Sentiment Analysis goes beyond what customers think about a brand to uncover how they feel about it…and why those feelings matter. Understanding sentiment is not about replacing quantitative brand metrics; it is about interpreting those metrics more accurately and more deeply.

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From Insight to Action

Commercial Due Diligence, Innovation Research, Strategic Planning

Allovance is also a powerful tool for corporate development teams. We’ve used it in projects where a client wanted to explore product categories, sub-markets, adjacent markets; identify acquisition targets; and evaluate which companies would create the most value within the constraints of a predetermined acquisition budget.

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The Art and Science of Identifying and Engaging Difficult-to-Reach Audiences

Brand Research, Competitive Intelligence, Innovation Research

A “difficult-to-reach” audience is one that, by virtue of its specificity, authority level, scarcity, or privacy, is not easily found nor convinced to participate in research studies. At Martec, we’ve built a reputation over decades for reaching precisely these types of respondents — not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary.

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Customer Intelligence as Part of Commercial Due Diligence (CDD)

Commercial Due Diligence, Private Equity

Customer Intelligence in the CDD realm applies a methodology known in the market research world as “Voice of Customer,” or VoC, which is important to understand and leverage when evaluating target acquisitions and their viability or upside.

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Case Study: Driving Strategic Growth Through Voice-of-Customer Insights

Brand Research

By leveraging a robust Voice of Customer research approach, the manufacturer aimed to optimize its distribution strategies and better align its offerings with the needs and preferences of its end-user customers—driving a 10% growth gap between its distributors and the overall market.

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Brand Research 101: Following the Funnel

Brand Research, Consumer & B2B2C

While the idea of a brand funnel is straightforward, proper deployment is crucial for ongoing brand tracking, development, and action. 

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Updated eBook: Advanced Pricing Strategies for Maximum Competitive Advantage

Pricing Research

To help business leaders navigate this unprecedented terrain, Martec Group has updated and republished our popular Pricing eBook that examines three such strategies in detail, including some of our own proprietary and unique methodologies. 

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