In our analysis, the market is a tool that has been used for business growth.

When Dow Jones decided to return by the Wall Street Journal in the mid-2000s, newspapers had to endure five years of flat circulation and advertising revenue, and the industry is in trouble. Although the magazine did not want to alienate the audience, he wanted to attract new readers – especially young people appreciate, advertisers will. Dow Jones he turned 125 years to make the newspaper. But the object of this company is to meet the needs of an emerging segment of consumers for new business opportunities, to understand that the magazine did not reach properly.

Assistance in developing the strategy, the Dow has used variants of conjoint analysis, a technique widely used in market research for 30 years. In traditional conjoint analysis, respondents were asked what products or product features that they value is repeated as a compromise between two or more choices, the combination is enough to provide a reliable ranking of the importance of each attribute. Dow Jones has the kind of analysis in a new way to identify potential readers and express their preferences are used. To win in the re-design of a new segment of customers who looked Journal is now part of News Corporation, a 35 percent increase in their search for new customers by marketing directly add, reversing a three-year decline in sales for the ad and has one year to increase revenue by $ 25 million for new programs and initiatives prices.

Can use, in fact, for companies in fields as diverse as luxury goods and retail banking, the analysis together into a strategic tool, providing business intelligence BI to go beyond the optimization of products to support organic growth. To use the methodology for conjoint analysis in new ways is very similar to traditional methodologies that represent the type of analysis used, but one important change: The marketing team to use the results in sets of customers and candidates with the same settings and provide a more detailed comparison with category they belong to, their needs, and the possibility that more resources or less income.

In other words, the analysis of joint is the source of new insights from customer segments. Of course it would be difficult to find a company that is not the kind of customer segmentation, and joint analysis is certainly not the only way you find to do this. These companies usually have the sense that their potential customers are real and have an idea of ​​what makes each segment becomes important. But with the help of a customer segmentation analysis, companies can develop a common understanding of multi-layered, with implications for how the segments, value propositions they offer, and how to prioritize markets for them.

looking for buyer

In recent years, as a manufacturer of luxury gifts are not satisfied with the pace of growth in one of the largest geographic market. The company has been targeting the wrong customers, If you use the wrong materials. Do you support the brand with a value proposition that undifferentiated.

Advertising is not effective

The company thinks that if he could answer these questions, he will need some idea of ​​helping to change the strategy of organic growth.

By joining techniques question the traditional analysis of consumer buying luxury gift manufacturers in 2000, to discover the extent to which they are brand-conscious and price of recycled materials like smooth leather, textiles and metals, and want to get donations from friends and family. Manufacturers then combine the data from the analysis together with the results of the survey questions to identify customer segments for five years and he decided to distance – called in a number of segments, including a group – to gain significant market share her traditional opportunity buyers.