DFW AMA Presentation this Friday

If you're in the Dallas area, then I hope to see you this Friday, March 27 at the DFW AMA Market Research SIG. Wow, that' s a mouth full of acronyms. If you don't know the acronyms, it's the Dallas Fort Worth American Marketing Association Market Research Special Interest Group. I'll be presenting on "Using Design Principles to Deliver Powerful Research Presentations."

In today's marketing world, researchers must do more than simply report that data. We must turn that data into a story for our clients that produces that "aha" reaction. They want to understand the insights and know the next actionable steps, and they don't want to have to work for it. So what do we have to do? We have to go from researcher to "storyteller".

In Friday's presentation, I will be leaving you with design principles and tips for creating effective and clear reports and presentations. It will be held at the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, 10707 Preston Road, Dallas, from 11:30 to 1:00. Click here to register, or go to www.dfwama.com.

Cool Research Deliverables

We all want to learn more more about how to communicate research findings succinctly and with a flair so key stakeholders can easily grasp and “buy-in” to the learnings.

So, this workshop, Design-Driven Deliverables: Adding Dimension to Your Research, was not only relevant but also insightful because it gave useful tips and examples of how to expand reporting beyond the Power Point presentation. Speakers, Steve Kulp and Lisa Broome, discussed creating shadowboxes , murals and inspiration stations to pull together “experiential” learnings.

By using a variety of unusual deliverables, the broader audience will have the ability to learn more through all of their senses. Some examples of these are shown below:

It was a great session of questions, answers and idea sharing. One interesting thought brought up by Dean Macko of Hyundai was the possibility of using actual respondents at the end of a segmentation study to better personify the segment learnings. Cool stuff!