How to Use Focus Groups and Depth Interviews to Develop Marketing Strategy

Focus groups and depth interviews can help expand knowledge about customers, prospects, and experts. It's insight.

Qualitative marketing research discovers, explores, and renders deeper understanding. It supports and amplifies quantitative marketing research.

Customers and prospects often decide your fate in the market.

By understanding customers, prospects, and experts, you improve your odds of success.

Learn about customer behaviors, attitudes, feelings, perceptions, opinions, and beliefs.

Build better marketing strategy with insights and knowledge.

Typical applications for qualitative marketing research include,

  • new business marketing research
  • exploratory interviews
  • competitive intelligence
  • channel marketing
  • market segmentation
  • describing consumers and customers

Qualitative research is a marketing research tool you can use.

Also see my e-book Instant Focus Group Questions

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Marketing SWOT Analysis and Segmentation
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Channel Marketing Research – Understand Your Gatekeepers
Channel marketing distributors, retailers, dealers, and agents are your gatekeepers. Get them to recommend your brand. Discover how to use qualitative marketing research to gain insights about channel.

Merchandising Strategies – How to Gain Insights
Merchandising strategies play an important role in retail sales. Discover how to gain insights in retail channels with depth interviews.


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