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Message Testing

How do you build a stronger bond between your brand and the consumer? With marketing communication and messaging that's relevant and creates an emotional connection. And because the strength of that bond dramatically impacts customer loyalty and ultimately brand and product success, message development and testing is a crucial part of this process.

MRSI's message development research helps you gain a true understanding of your target market and their wants, needs and motivators. Our strategic expertise helps you apply that insight to develop communication strategies that reach this group in a meaningful way.

Our experts guide you through the message development process using a blend of qualitative and quantitative marketing research tools:

  • Consumer Understanding and Definition - Qualitative insights generation, Segmentation
  • Message Development and Validation - Concept/white card development, Quantitative validation, Concept/language refinement
  • Marketing Plan and Creative Development - Qualitative storyboard, Animatic evaluation, Quantitative concept testing

We typically conduct qualitative marketing research as our initial step in the message development process to explore the experiences, wants and needs of your target audience, their underlying emotions and emotional drivers, and also to determine their "language" as it relates to your product, brand or category. This provides a wealth of insight from which to build your concepts/white cards and is also an invaluable resource to leverage during creative development.

MRSI's Concept Highlighter® helps you evaluate your concepts with ease by providing a visual experience that is more natural and engaging for you and the respondent. This online research tool allows respondents to click on specific words, phrases or visuals in an ad or concept that they like or dislike. Quantitative results are more closely tied to the actual concept since reactions are noted on the concept itself. Concept Highlighter can also measure purchase intent, believability and improvement areas.

MRSI's message development research helps you determine which messages work, which don't and why, so your brand stands out, connects with consumers and communicates in a way that ultimately motivates them to take action.

By integrating qualitative and quantitative findings and applying our research expertise across a variety of categories, MRSI provides insightful recommendations that help you make strategic marketing communications decisions that guide brand and products success.

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