GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME - We get it right the first time - that's the value of experience. Brass Ideas is a branding and advertising agency that specializes in solving difficult challenges. We’re best known for our Bill Lumbergh campaign for Atlassian HipChat, which achieved 20 times the average response to digital video advertising. We believe in certain things that work: intellectual honesty, the power of emotion to drive decisions, over-servicing clients. We have deep experience in and love for technology advertising. We bring humanity and thus motivating power to it. We’ve helped solve B2B problems for technology clients ranging from Atlassian, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, HP and Google Wallet to start-ups like SmartRecruiters and Galvanize. We’ve also done lots of consumer tech, for brands like Sprint, Verizon and Nokia. In consumer advertising, we’ve worked with global brands such as Diageo and PUMA and here in the US, packaged goods brands like Jimmy Dean, Nestle and General Mills. We’ve worked on cars, (Subaru and MINI), golf (Taylor Made Golf, Mizuno), media properties (The Weather Channel, ABC) and lots of financial services (iShares, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Silicon Valley Bank). In addition to creative and media, we offer a branding consultancy focused on ideation, brand strategy and brand identity. We’ve been doing this awhile and know what we’re doing. If you want to put yourself in proven hands when you have a difficult challenge, call us.
ABOUT US - Founded by ad veteran Gerry Graf in 2010, Barton F. Graf is a full-service independent creative agency known for its culturally penetrative and breakthrough creative work. Headquartered in New York, Barton F. Graf has received multiple agency accolades, including Ad Age Agency A-List and Creativity A-List; Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies; and 4A’s Mid-Size Agency of the Year.
DESIGN THINKING FOR CUSTOMER INSIGHT - STORYLINE is an insights agency specializing in Design Thinking. Companies partner with us when they have identified a compelling opportunity to innovate and seek to better understand it through a people-centric lens. Our work ultimately empowers our clients to focus on what should be done for their customers, rather than what can be done; thereby shifting enterprise-level thinking from inside-out to outside-in. Our clients are innovators and their project stakeholders are change agents. If you're looking for breakthrough insight into your customers and need to rally your organization around the customer story, get in touch!
THE HOW & WHY BEHIND BUILDING BETTER SOFTWARE - InMotion Software is a national user research, design and engineering consultancy with headquarters in Austin, TX founded in July 2008. We design products, services, and experiences to improve the lives of people. We practice human-centered design, a creative approach to problem solving. It is a process that starts with the people you're designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor made to suit their needs.
LEADING INDEPENDENT CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH FIRM - Second To None offers a comprehensive suite of integrated and stand-alone Customer Experience Management services, including Customer Feedback Surveys, Mystery Shopping and Brand Compliance Audits. Solutions are designed around our Holistic Customer Experience Management℠ methodology, where we model, measure and manage the customer experience to better align with your brand promise in order to create more authentic brand experiences. The result is practical business intelligence delivered in real-time. We empower your organization to proactively manage the customer experience by driving customer satisfaction, loyalty, advocacy and ultimately revenue.
ABOUT US - Vision Strategy and Insights is a full service market research consultancy that uses its cultural and trend expertise, along with customized and hybrid research approaches, to deliver segment and total market insights that grow client businesses. We build true partnerships via in-depth understanding of our clients’ business and brand challenges. We believe that brand synergy across ethnic groups is fundamental to winning new mainstream multicultural market. Executional expressions may vary by ethnic group but they should work seamlessly to support an overarching brand promise. We help clients build meaningful relationships and provide cross-cultural insights for integrated marketing strategies. We’re unique because we have the experience and internal expertise to understand the distinct and converging needs of multicultural segments and the total market. Contact us at [email protected] for more information and to review your next research project in this growing consumer segment.
ETHNOGRAPHIC & USER INSIGHT RESEARCH - dig generates insights and creates compelling insight communications (engaging films, thoughtful reports) to ensure that the insights spread throughout organizations. our insight communication tools help our clients build emotional intelligence, align disparate audiences, and incite growth.
INVESTIGACIóN Y ESTRATEGIA ON-DEMAND - Observadores de lo nuevo, exploradores incansables, detectives de formas de vida, curiosos de muchos mundos, catadores de experiencias y productores de contenidos para tiempos líquidos. Inmersión en Cultura Digital: -Escucha cultural -Análisis transcultural -Tensiones e insights -Desk Research Creativo Construcción de Marca: - Brand Key Development - Brand Book Development - Elaboración de Brief & Briefing Consultoría de Síntesis: -Brand Emergency -Product Development -Workshops ad-hoc
RELATIONSHIP BRANDING™ - Implementing a unique approach to marketing that it calls Relationship Branding™, Emisare blends rigorous research, sharp strategic analysis and exceptional creative into traditional and new media communications programs that build strong bonds between its clients’ brands and their customers. Based in Greensboro, North Carolina, the company serves a diverse portfolio of companies in both the business-to-business and business-to-consumer categories. 2008-2009 Inc. Magazine Fast 5000 (#815) 2008-2009 Business Journal of the Triad Fast 50
WORLD LEADER IN SURVEY MONITIZATION - Peanut Labs is a social monetization company that helps publishers maximize their earning potential via virtual goods and currencies offered through a mix of market research surveys, global payments, and offers. In early April, social networking giant Facebook introduced Peanut Labs’ platform as one of the first three alternate ways for users to earn Facebook’s virtual currency, Credits. Peanut Labs is a fast-growing innovation, technology and social media monetization business. The company enables social media sample through partnerships with highly diverse social media applications and communities, including major social and gaming networks. Peanut Labs has won numerous awards, including a FAST Top 50 and the Advertising Research Foundation's Silver Innovation Award.
EMPOWERING YOU WITH DATA - Right now there are conversations happening about your brand. Do you know what’s being said? MGO Marketing has been helping businesses like yours develop a compelling brand identity, gain deep customer insights and improve their employee engagement for over 29 years. Leveraging sophisticated market research techniques, we create smart strategies to grow your company's brand, revenue and profit. MGO Marketing empowers your business with targeted data to help your company plan, act and grow. Whether you are looking for a one-time project or a long-term process, we offer powerful, pragmatic solutions to your marketing and branding needs.
GETTING YOU CLOSER TO CONSUMERS - As an innovative, award-winning consumer insight agency, we get you closer to consumers and their cultures. With offices in Manchester, London and Singapore, we help blue chip clients innovate through the application of our passion and skills in five core areas: • Online insight communities: we lead the MRS training in Online Panels & Communities • Customer journeys/ experience: improve service delivery, understand the path to purchase • Digital: website, social media, mobile, apps and email • Product and service optimisation including NPD, price and range • Brand communication We work with leading consumer brands, including British Airways, British Gas, The Co-operative, Diageo, easyJet, Eurostar, GSK, Homebase, Nationwide, Next, Sony, Tesco and Unilever.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - We are an Australian private company that is in the business of creating images and stories to help your company grow. Our specialty is business to business marketing and we develop innovative programs to differentiate your business and make it stand out from the crowded competition. MAP Marketing is a wholly owned Australian private company that has been in business for more than 21 years. Our company's specialties include: online portals, online retail sites, business events, business communications, business research and business publications. Our national client base includes professional associations, professional practices, technology companies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, engineering and land development companies. The Managing Director, Maria Charlton, is a Certified Practicing Marketer with the Australian Marketing Institute and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Masters in Business Administration. She has extensive experience in strategic marketing, market research, business development and business publications.
CATALYST IN ACTION - 1Lotus Market Research is an independent market research fieldwork agency, assisting fieldwork partners and Clients. 1Lotus Research specializes in delivering fieldwork services in B2B and healthcare segment across 30 countries across Asia, Middle East and Australia.
- Brandtrust is a leader in deep social science led emotional research methods that reveal the unarticulated needs of consumers specific to your category and brand. Our trademarked methodologies discover what consumers and customers can’t tell us by tapping into the 95% of human behavior that is driven by the subconscious mind. For nearly two decades, Brandtrust has been trusted advisors for some of the world’s biggest brands and organizations helping them drive their business performance by identifying the often elusive and unspoken needs of their customers, leading to the creation of more emotionally engaged employees, brands and marketplace experiences and ultimately to happier, more loyal customers. Our work extends beyond traditional insight generation by employing storytelling techniques that help our clients socialize insights and ideas throughout their organization. We strive to provide a clear, coherent compilation of rich insight and strategy that squarely aligns with your consumer’s deep emotional drivers and motivations. Brandtrust will help you move beyond the voice and into the mind of the consumer, and understand their unarticulated needs. We promise to change the way you think about your customers and your business.
ABOUT US - Formed in 2004, Brandspeak provides qualitative, quantitative and neuromarketing-based market research and brand strategy services. Our B2C and B2B clients range from small, UK start-ups to truly global organisations. Our offices are in London and Bristol and we have partner offices located around the world.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Pinpoint is a design strategy group in Portland, Oregon. We help companies identify opportunities and hidden niches, then design engaging products that fill them. We get the question more than any other — What is it, exactly, that you do? It is, of course, a completely fair question. At a basic level, we learn about you and the people who care most about your work. With a fundamental understanding of both, we design ways to thoughtfully connect you both. It sounds simple. That said, the complexities of business problems, company structure, deadlines, budgets and internal organizational challenges often force project teams to forget the very people they are designing a product or service for. Similarly, we work to gain a rich understanding of your audience. We like to meet these people. We want to hear about their lives. How do they live their lives? What do they do every day? Why do they do these things? This sort of information paints a much larger picture of a person—they transform from users to people. Viewing business through the eyes your people reframes the problems, understanding, design, and indeed the complexity of your work. This perspective shift is what motivates us. It provides the foundation for everything we do for our clients. Our process of constant learning, testing, and refining along the way has helped our clients develop new relationships with their people — Cisco, Intel, Department of Defense, Stanford University, Nike and Mercy Corps.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - At Tandem Associates, we deliver the expertise, insights and action plans that will transform your marketing initiatives into proven business success. We offer the perspective and objectivity to define the best strategy as well as the right people and resources to implement initiatives and see them through. So whether you're thinking of launching a new product, redefining your brand, or need help executing a strategy, we can help you get there quickly, thoughtfully, expertly.
VISIONARY TECHNOLOGY, CRITICAL THINKING - At Vision Critical we build online platforms that facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees and citizens in contexts ranging from market research to civic engagement. We help our clients ask better questions, listen more intently, and learn what the people they care about think and say. Over 600 organizations around the globe, including a third of the top 100 brands, have come to rely on the private online communities developed and supported through our cloud based software and global services. We are at the forefront of the smart, online communities movement, and are working with our customers to make conversations ever richer, more insightful and linking with their wider social data. We believe that the essence of consumer/citizen sentiment measurement is two-way dialogue - whether through structured surveys or guided peer-to-peer discussions. We combine the art of design, robust engineering and sector specialists to make this dialogue meaningful, efficient, and comprehensible. At Vision Critical we deploy over 2.5 million survey invitations per month across 26 languages. most of which involve the millions of consumers and citizens who are members of the online panels that we build and support. The cloud based software that powers these engagements is built around our Sparq ™ platform which matches an accessible user interface with fully featured modules for survey authoring, community management, discussion forums and reporting. As a solutions company we provide professional support services, either directly or through our partner channels, to enhance our technology. Our experts play a dual role; first, they guide and often execute client assignments using our software. Second, they play an integral role in the development of our platforms and applications. Vision Critical continues to invest heavily in R&D, new sales capacity and in IT infrastructure. With offices across North America, Europe , Asia and Australia, we offer a truly global perspective in almost every industry niche, from consumer goods, retail and technology to financial services, health, public affairs and media.
ABOUT GROWTH ENGINE - Growth Engine is an Innovation Agency dedicated to helping thought leaders and their companies achieve sustained revenue growth through innovation. Growth Engine provides the following; new products or services, brand positioning, marketing strategic planning, vision and strategy workshops with company leaders, innovation process development, operations, and culture change. Growth Engine was founded by Bryan Mattimore and Gary Fraser. The combination of Bryan's skill as an industry-leading ideator, facilitator, author, speaker, and inventor of applied/focused ideation techniques, and Gary's 20 + years experience as an innovative, award-winning, consumer products marketer has created a unique, dynamic agency capable of working with organizations to develop exciting, new areas for growth. By providing continuous strategic innovation leadership to help with innovation efforts, the Growth Engine team ultimately leads organizations to become more innovative and develop more creative leaders.
ABOUT PASKILL STAPLETON & LORD - Paskill Stapleton & Lord is a full-service research, marketing and enrollment management firm specializing in results driven solutions for higher education. Founded in 1986, we’ve worked with over 400 liberal arts colleges, faith-based institutions, public and private universities, and United States service academies to develop marketing and enrollment programs that successfully recruit students. Our approach is comprehensive and holistic, taking into account how each marketing component affects the others. We focus on ROI. Specialties: o Advertising, Media Planning and Inquiry Generation o Enrollment Management o Recruiter Training and Staff Development o Admissions and Marketing Assessment o Market Research o Brand Positioning, Identity and Strategic Planning o Publication Design and Recruitment Communications Strategy o Website Assessment and Design o Photography and Video Production o Campus Map Illustration o New Media
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - D50 Media helps our clients win in Acquisition and “Activation” marketing. We leverage both traditional and digital media, including mobile platforms, to find your target customers more efficiently. We drive measurable results to help you win in highly competitive categories, where sometimes winning means finding “needles in haystacks,” or just a small audience for a specific product or service. We are different in the way we blend direct marketing know-how, strong analytics capabilities, creative talent, and multi-channel expertise, to optimize those critical first points of communication with customers. While some agencies focus on impressions, visits, or engagement, we go further to transition the consumer from being a hand-raiser to a customer. For d50, this means starting with a registration, a survey completion, or a “like,” and then moving to a revenue-generating transaction or confirmed appointment. We also have a “total customer” point of view. We recognize consumers are surrounded by messages and multi-channel connections every day, so our campaigns reach them in all relevant media to drive action and engagement. Blending science and art, we continually test and optimize, looking holistically at the media mix and messaging to find ways to achieve even stronger marketing ROI. Ultimately, we get results.
WHY WE'RE UNIQUE - Join our movement! http://www.facebook.com/StrawberryFrog StrawberryFrog is the global Cultural Movement agency. StrawberryFrog challenges the status quo with fragrant ideas and a steely resolve that combines culture, entrepreneurship, imagination and technology into Cultural Movements. Our competitive edge is developing Cultural Movement strategies for our clients, who are increasingly global brands. Our capabilities include - FrogLogic, our process to develop Cultural Movement strategies for our clients. - Anthropological research - Creative excellence on all platforms - Digital presence, social media, mobile expertise - Communications architecture/planning/investment modeling - NPD development - Global brand stewardship - Analytics and evaluation We believe brands can identify, crystallize, curate and sponsor Cultural Movements. When you have a Cultural Movement, you can do anything in a fragmenting media universe. We are a global company, with offices in Amsterdam, New York and Sao Paulo.
ABOUT DATAMARK INC. - DATA-DRIVEN ENROLLMENT MARKETING Datamark provides innovative, data-driven marketing exclusively to higher education. The company provides marketing research services, delivers full-service lead generation and management, and offers conversion marketing solutions designed to reach, engage and motivate prospective students.
INTELLIGENCE APPLIED - TNS is the leading full-service custom market research agency in North America, delivering precise insights and actionable growth strategies that provide a vital competitive edge for our clients. TNS advises clients on specific growth strategies around new market entry, innovation, brand switching and stakeholder management, based on long-established expertise and market-leading solutions. With a presence in over 80 countries, TNS has more conversations with the world’s consumers than anyone else and understands individual human behaviours and attitudes across every cultural, economic and political region of the world. TNS is part of Kantar, one of the world's largest insight, information and consultancy groups
TURN RAW DATA INTO A FEAST OF ACTIONABLE RESULTS - FRC brings a thoughtful and creative approach to your research needs, along with insightful back-end analysis. • Founded in 1972 • A full-service market research firm with the highest standards of study execution and a strong orientation toward making actionable marketing recommendations • All projects closely overseen by senior management, from initial problem definition through analysis and on-going counsel • Clients include a mix of Fortune 500 corporations and mid-size companies, working with both research professionals and marketing management • One source for all types of custom marketing research
ABOUT ORNICO - Ornico collects and analyses a tsunami of marketing information to produce brand and reputation intelligence. Ornico aggregates advertisements and editorial coverage on brands, businesses, governments, products and services. Ornico audits and interprets this information, then converts it into knowledge that puts decision makers in the know about the most important decisions they’ll make to drive their success of their brand. Ornico empowers marketing decision makers.
IDENTIFYING TRENDS IS JUST THE BEGINNING... - GDR provides the world’s leading consumer facing companies with the thought leadership they need to remain ahead. We do this with our access to a unique network of innovators in design, architecture and experiential marketing, which provides us with the primary material we need to make sense of the consumer world and accurately predict mid term trends. We produce the coveted Global Innovation Report. A distilled quarterly view of best-in-market retail and hospitality case studies, set within early stage consumer trends.
CREATOR OF PREMIER SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR ONLINE RESEARCH - We’re creators of the premier software tools for online research…and we know how to use them. Founded in 1996, we were one of the very first companies to conduct a focus group online. It was over an AOL dialup connection (ask your grandma) in a New York City hotel room. Over the last decade, we’ve conducted over 16,000 qualitative market research sessions across all kinds of different industries and topics. The knowledge we’ve gained from our vast research experience is priceless. The good news is that we like to share.
ABOUT US - GMG insights offers strategy, analysis, and research services for companies with complex B2B sales. GMG's client assignments generally fall into 3 buckets 1. Assessing Market Opportunity for new solutions or services: New product or service development Vertical and horizontal market extensions 2. Go-to-Market marketing strategies and tactics: Discovering pain points that drive action and adoption Gauging permission gaps Identifying purchase process Developing positioning and specific messaging 3. Brand assessment and development: Naming Creative testing For over 20 clients including Forrester Research, EMC, CA, Iron Mountain, PTC and Westcon Group we have studied and analyzed the IT infrastructure impact of cloud computing, mobility, virtualization, data storage, IT security and IT as a Service. Recent relevant studies conducted include: cloud adoption, data center automation, network service management, business service management, IT security adoption, data backup/recovery and protection, email archiving and SharePoint adoption. GMG has conducted hundreds of interviews with CIOs, VPs, Directors and Managers of IT Operations and Architecture, GCs, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Security Officers and Chief Compliance Officers and their staffs. We focus on the analysis, insight, positioning and strategies that drive compelling marketing programs and create tighter alignment with sales.
ABOUT SCHLESINGER ASSOCIATES - Schlesinger Associates is the leading data collection company offering a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research solutions. Working in partnership with you, we provide reliable recruitment for any methodology your study may require, including online surveys, online communities, webcam focus groups, traditional focus groups, telephone interviews, ethnographies, quantitative, and in-depth interviews. We provide, fast, effective online surveys, including programming and hosting. We apply an unparalleled understanding of quality drivers across panel, sample and survey in online research Our expert Global Management Solutions team takes care of your international healthcare studies in any country, any language and any culture with just one knowledgeable point of contact throughout. Our high-specification focus groups facilities are located in key markets across the US, the UK (The Research House), France (ConsuMed Research & Passerelles) and Germany (Schmiedl Marktforschung). With a lifetime of experience and an uncompromising commitment to your success, we are your global research partner, anywhere, anytime.
WHAT WE DO - You’ve got a product launch approaching or a digital experience that you need to create and you need to know your end user to ensure that it’s a success. The goals and objectives of your engagement determine our approach to gathering feedback from people – in-home interviews, offices, factories, in-lab at our facility, remote interviews or even through our social media intelligence solution. At User Insight, we go beyond segmentation data and simple usability testing and get to know your customers’ behaviors, motivations, habits and pain-points to create actionable insights for your move-forward strategies. We leverage our experience to consult with you on execution, as well as create user experience roadmaps to pair with your product roadmap, ensuring that you are testing at all the right points and avoid costly mistakes. User Insight’s consulting services are founded upon our strategic solutions and 10 years of experience conducting over 125 projects a year, across 25 different industries. We consult on products and digital experiences, mobile experiences and social media for companies, agencies and government organizations. Our strategic solutions include foundational research that can be applied to your products, services and overall brand.