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Market Research Services

M. Davis and Company, Inc. (MDAC) has experience and expertise in both qualitative and quantitative market research techniques and has applied this knowledge to serve a broad spectrum of industries.

  • MDAC conducts advertising/brand awareness and positioning studies for a variety of clients and types of industry.

  • MDAC specializes in the design and administration of business to customer/consumer (B-to-C), business to business (B-to-B) and employee satisfaction surveys for a broad range of clients. We believe measuring satisfaction is important, but improving satisfaction and the competitive position of your business is our goal. With ROInfo™, our research experts help our client partners develop actionable programs to effect measurable improvements in awareness, imagery, market share and employee satisfaction.

  • We keep pace with the global economy by providing our clients with multi-lingual, multi-cultural B-to-C and B-to-B research capabilities on the internet, telephone and face-to-face.

  • By employing a broad range of research techniques, MDAC provides valuable information to optimize product development through concept development, refinement and evaluation; product evaluation and optimization; and market development.

  • We believe in capitalizing on benefits of Internet-based market research and have invested in the tools and knowledge to provide online services.

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Research Techniques

M. Davis and Company, Inc. (MDAC) employs an extensive array of market research techniques to ensure our clients receive a high return on information (ROInfo)™ by employing our unique perspective and market insights.

  • Our audience feedback studies provide unbiased, continuous measurements of marketing and advertising concepts with same day decision-making.

  • We believe in capitalizing on the inherent benefits of the Internet to advance the science of market research. MDAC offers both qualitative and quantitative internet techniques.

  • Our team of experienced focus group moderators have collectively moderated over 1,000 focus group sessions, consisting of a wide variety of participants from various socio-economic, ethnic and demographic backgrounds. We provide a complete range of qualitative research services.

  • M. Davis and Company, Inc. specializes in the design and administration of quantitative research services. MDAC professional staff members have a broad knowledge of advanced survey methodology with extensive experience in managing large-scale, national projects.

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Qualitative Research

The M. Davis and Company, Inc. (MDAC) team of experienced focus group moderators has collectively moderated over 1,000 focus group sessions, consisting of a wide variety of participants from various socio-economic, ethnic and demographic backgrounds. Our team of experienced and knowledgeable moderators directs meaningful qualitative exercises and provides insightful action-oriented reports. Our areas of research include:

Advertising Research

Focus groups from concept development to the finished advertising promotion. Our moderators have provided action-oriented research findings that have been the foundation for successful national advertising and promotional campaigns.

Communications Research

Our expertise covers all the consumer touch points, from custom publications to broadcast media. MDAC moderators bring this knowledge and experience to your communication research needs.

Product/Program Development

Our moderators conduct focus groups and in-depth interviews in product/program development for all our clients and the industries they represent.

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Quantitative Research

M. Davis and Company, Inc. (MDAC) specializes in the design and administration of national and local telephone, mail and Internet surveys for business, consumer product and services companies, government and non-profit organizations. MDAC's professional staff combines a broad knowledge of advanced survey methodology with extensive experience in project management to produce high quality surveys. The staff is supported by state-of-the-art technology for sampling, data collection, analysis and report writing. Areas of research expertise include:

Concept and New Product Testing

Extensive experience conducting studies to evaluate the market acceptance and sales potential of new or restaged product ideas or services at various stages of the marketing process - from concept development through launch.

Promotion and Advertising Research

Pre-testing and post-launch evaluation methodologies to assess the effectiveness of new and ongoing advertising and promotion campaigns regarding brand image, perception and attitude shifts and actual change in sales.

Tracking Studies

M. Davis and Company, Inc., has developed proprietary methodologies to assess advertising campaigns in the context of what they were designed to achieve. We can assess the impact of your marketing decisions, formulate recommendations to improve results of your campaign and look at the bottom-line benefit of potential corrective action steps.

MDAC's research staff has comprehensive backgrounds in questionnaire design, sampling, project management, data quality assurance, data analysis and report writing. The M. Davis and Company, Inc. research facility is equipped with a modern, powerful and versatile array of computerized survey research tools.

The cornerstone of M. Davis and Company's state-of-the-art research facility is our telephone call center, which is equipped with 40 computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) work-stations utilizing Computers for Marketing Corporation (CfMC) software. CfMC is the leading data collection software in our industry and affords MDAC the ability to export data directly to advanced statistical reporting software (e.g., SAS, SPSS).

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MDAC Online

(Internet Research Services)

M. Davis and Company, Inc. (MDAC) believes in capitalizing on inherent benefits of the Internet to advance the science of market research. We have invested in the tools and knowledge to be a leader in the development and administration of online research.

As experts in custom-designed surveys, we have the experience to successfully apply internet-based techniques in a variety of areas:

  • Customer/Consumer Satisfaction

  • Business-to-Business

  • Employee Satisfaction

  • Web site Evaluation

  • E-Commerce Evaluation

  • Product/Program Development

Our specific services in each of these six areas is the design and administration of e-mail, web-hosted and/or Iintranet surveys to support quantitative market research.

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