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System Solutions

comprehensive, global BUSINESS STRATEGY.

  • Primary objective distillation, and goal hierarchy definitions

  • KPI metric development and application

  • Data and insight-driven future setting (predictive and prescriptive modeling)

  • Strategic planning and review for 5-year, annual, quarterly, monthly, or ad hoc time-frames

  • Opportunistic response to current events and market drivers

  • Projections and pro formas with detailed hypothetical scenarios

    • Goal setting and formulation, execution, analysis and go-forward implementation

    • Customer recency/frequency/monetary (RFM) action analysis

    • Behavior-driven customer preference and affinity analysis

    • New program and product recommendations and strategies

    • Creation of flexible, modular decision sets and funding allocation


BRAND

  • Brand voice and messaging

  • Unique value proposition

  • Visualization

  • Brand Spectrum Analysis

  • Brand theory, value and usage education

MARKETING STRATEGY

  • Comprehensive application of Behavioral Economics, neuroscience, and the psychology of influence

  • Product positioning and offer

  • Predictive and prescriptive data-driven messaging

  • Formulating and testing hypotheses and projections

  • Relevant audience targeting

  • Communication planning and budgeting

  • Tactics (including personalization, localization, affinity targeting)

  • Tools and technology optimization

  • Response and revenue generation

  • Conversion methodologies

  • Ruthless scrutiny of how it all worked and what to improve

  • A pathway to and arrival at better results

  • Deep dive surprise-finder methodologies

 

MARKET RESEARCH & INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT 

  • Conduct both benchmark and ongoing waves of empirical research, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, immersive events, off-site retreats and more, among prospects, customers and stakeholders. 

  • Monitor syndicated studies to identify the landscape of thinking regarding you and competitors in the category.

  • Create and manage brand studies to determine your unique, consumer-facing value, relevance, message applicability, awareness, key attributes and higher impact imagery 

  • Competitive and vertical industry comparative analysis 

  • Develop and implement audience research on demographics, psychographics, behavioral economic principles, buying habits, stage-of-life cycles, lifestyles and special audience profiles, to define personas and segments across all traditional and emerging communication opportunities 

  • Develop strategy and audit results of all media placement in every medium to monitor levels of influence and engagement

  • Formulate Pattern Regression Techniques against both custom and syndicated research to determine target segments, clusters of like characteristics, behavior, and activities, and development opportunities  

  • Maximize analytical tools (for example: Experian MOSAIC, mFour mobile geotargeting and eSiteAnalytics geographic mapping or equivalent) to target focused profiles of households and consumers 

  • Test market targeting and optimization through correlation coefficient application (and Little America type methodology) to match arrays of key characteristics of products and services targets to optimum relevance by market.