ADV Post test
To provide a measure of the combined effect of media weight, buying effectiveness of the target audience and quality of the advertising or creative execution.
Concept screening
To assess the potential of different concept positionings, in-depth investigation is needed that goes beyond mere liking and deeply explores all the aspects underlying the success (or failure) of a concept: the real understanding of the core message, the relevance of promises and benefits, the empathy of the insight, the product profile conveyed. With Ales you can be sure to "bet on the winning horse".
Concepts Optimization
Everything can be improved, everything is perfectible. To make a concept completely 'tailor-made' to consumers, to help them identify and trigger them to purchase, Ales offers meticulous concept reworking in terms of content, structure and semantics, based on consumer feedback and the broad researcher experience.
Shopper
A behavioural science approach to retail that aims at identifying nudges and biases that intervene in the buying process with both a qualitative and quantitative approach.
Driver & Barriers
How to motivate consumers to take action to buy your product? Not only by communicating the benefits your product offers them, but also by focusing on reassuring them on the consumer doubts currently hindering purchase of your product.
Creative lab
To generate new ideas/concepts that are truly responsive to consumer expectations, needs and desires and that stand out in the competitive scenario, it is necessary to go beyond one's own beliefs and expand thinking by involving all the players (consumers, expert researchers, clients, agencies, visualisers) in a co-creative and co-participative process that ignites the spark of innovation!
Shelf test
Puncturing the shelf, being recognisable, attracting the consumer's attention. The best way to test these elements is the shelf. Ales proposes several technological solutions as an alternative to the physical shelf.
Marketing mix assessment
Estimate volumes in order to assess the marketing mix factors (price, communication, distribution and product).
Tracking study
Keeping track of the effectiveness of a creative and advertising route in the consumer sample, in order to monitor the variations in buying effect that the spot is able to trigger among consumers.
Price positioning
Identifying the optimal price for maximising value share and determining the effect of promotional pricing is never easy. Ales can help you with this through price sensitivity models.
Concept development & workshop
A method of innovation that aims, through guided Concept Writing sessions with consumers and/or customers, at creating (or optimising) structured marketing, communication, product or service or packaging concepts.
Marketing Mix Mode
An analysis of sales data to estimate the impact of different marketing mix scenarios.
Net Promoter Score
A tool to assess customer loyalty and satisfaction in their relationship with a brand or product.
Consumer observations & connection
To bring unmet needs & relevant insights to light, it is essential to "see the world through the consumer's eyes". Ales can help you immerse yourself in your target's daily life at every moment of purchase, consumption or when the need arises!
Copy pre-Test (quali e quanti)
An advertisement is effective, able to move the target to purchase only when it is able to work on both the consumer's rational side (convince) and more emotional and deeper side (persuade). Ales has developed an ADV pre-test tool capable of deeply analysing all the qualitative and quantitative indicators at the basis of a creative route's success.
Design Thinking
A creative method aimed at generating innovative and actionable solutions to marketing issues, through the strategic activation of end-users', business stakeholders', specialised partners' collaborative intelligence.
Brand Assessment
The most direct way to understand the state of health, identify strengths and areas not covered to develop your brand and your business.
Pack Test
We evaluate not only the graphics, but the pack's functioning also by having consumers try it to gain insights that are useful not only for communication, but for the engineers who design the packs as well.
U&A
The exploration mode to get to know consumers, their habits, their needs and the way they buy and use products.
Habits study
Even the most impulsive consumers can be predictable in their purchasing decisions. By discovering the factors that drive the target's buying habits, you can sell the consumer what they want before they even know they need it.
Post launch monitoring
In order to create a successful brand, not only is it necessary to develop and launch a new product, but also to monitor and optimise the product once it is available on the market. Understand the brand's health, measure effectiveness of the advertising campaign and anticipate the competition's counterattacks.
Workshop & Courses
We organise training course at ALES or at our client location:
Insight generation and new idea development
New concepts (writing and screening)
Ales works with you to write together your concepts in the most appropriate way and to evaluate their performance.