Brand and Product Research
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Brand Research
Determines brand positioning and customer attitudes. Brand and marketing strategy research is the “compass” that helps a business decide how to differentiate itself in the market, what value to deliver to customers, and through which channels to communicate it.
The main elements and content identified through the research can be categorized as follows.
This section is aimed at defining the brand’s “soul,” or internal essence, and its position in the market.
- Brand Awareness: Measures how well customers know your brand and whether they can distinguish it from competitors.
- Brand Positioning: What does your brand stand for in the customer’s mind? For example: Is it the fastest, or the highest quality?
- Brand Value Proposition: What problem does your brand solve for the customer, and what benefits does it provide?
- Brand Identity: Whether the logo, visual appearance, and tone of communication are suited to the target customers.
Product Research
Product research refers to the process of collecting and analyzing the actual data and information required to launch a new product in the market or improve an existing product.
It determines how to plan and successfully carry out activities aimed at introducing a new product to the market and improving the product. This research is conducted within the methodology of studying customer needs and experiences. By studying customer experience, it becomes possible to understand how customers evaluate the given goods and services, and based on their evaluations, it makes it possible to plan how to improve goods and services.
Let us consider this research in the following three main sections.
What product research identifies
During the research, we obtain answers to the following questions and define the product’s “image”:
- Customer needs and problems: What problems are target customers facing? What solution do they want?
- Market opportunity: Is there room in the market for the given product? What is the market capacity?
- Competitor analysis: Who are the companies offering similar products? What are their strengths and weaknesses?
- Price sensitivity: How much are customers willing to pay for this product?
- Product features: Which characteristics provide the greatest value to customers? Features that must have and features that are good to have.
Product Research
Product research is generally divided into two main categories, and the following methods are used.
A. Qualitative Research – Understanding the “Why”
- In-depth interview: Meeting with customers one-on-one to understand their behavior, motives, and expectations.
- Focus group interview: Conducting a discussion with 6–10 participants to test the product idea.
- Observation method: Observing how the customer uses the product in real life.
B. Quantitative Research
- Survey: Collecting information from a large number of customers through questionnaires
- A/B Test: Showing customers two different versions of the product (for example: two different designs) and measuring which one is more effective.
- Conjoint Analysis: Mathematically determining which product attributes (price, color, quality) customers place more importance on.
As a result of the research, companies become able to prevent risks and make the right decisions.
Reducing risk
- Prevents the loss of large amounts of money and time by launching a product with no demand in the market.
Product-Market Fit
- Offers exactly what the customer wants and ensures sales.
Pricing strategy
- Sets a profitable price that matches the customer’s purchasing power.
Development sequence
- Determines which product functions need to be developed first.
Marketing message
- By understanding the problems faced by the customer, it makes the advertising wording and message more precise.