Telephone depth interviews (TDI market research).
Explore professional or consumer perceptions to understand attitudes, needs and experiences of your products, services and brands.
Only by understanding your customers’ perspectives and experiences can you evolve to meet their needs.
We conduct TDI market research to help you get closer to the people that matter most – your customers. By connecting with people over the phone and one-on-one, we’re able to dig deep to understand customers’ needs and pain points, and discuss their views and experiences of your brand, products and services.
We conduct TDI market research for both B2B and B2C audiences and have particular expertise in engaging the hard-to-reach. We’ve spoken to CEOs and CTOs, right through to famers and salon owners – all through the power of TDIs. Our specialist interviewers are the very best in the business, skilled in building rapport with your customers to unearth powerful new insights and opportunities for your business.
The impact TDI market research can have on your business:
Build rich customer understanding
By directly engaging with your customers, you’re able to better understand what they’re looking for from your business.
Design your strategy around your customers’ evolving needs
The rich insights gained from TDI market research can enable customer-centric planning and strategy development.
Improve customer satisfaction in both B2C and B2B settings
By uncovering individual assessments of services and products, you can find ways to optimize and improve satisfaction.
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Embedding a customer-centric culture to inform all areas of business strategy for Havells
An ongoing customer understanding program has helped Havells understand emerging needs, trends and competitor perceptions amongst its customers across various categories.
Demonstrating the positive impact of CSR programmes on brand perceptions across Asia for Samsung
A comprehensive piece of research to validate Samsung’s CSR efforts in 9 markets, thereby confirming the importance of such initiatives and their positive impact on brand perceptions.
Establishing a pan-Asian Financial Health Index for GoBear
A collaborative and consultative qualitative & quantitative approach helped GoBear establish a Financial Health Index in key markets, thereby expanding its brand value beyond the current positioning.
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Our global footprint makes us the go-to partner for international market research. We offer all qualitative and quantitative methodologies across our office network and beyond.
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With over 30 years in the business of market research, we have extensive experience and a depth of knowledge across a range of sectors.
We bring this to bear to design the very best approach to meet your objectives.
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Arla Foods
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Bloomberg
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Bridgestone
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Discovery
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Treatwell
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