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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.

Tactical Solutions