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Consumer Insight: A Must for Successful Package Development

insight_logo_275pxAn in-depth strategy report from PTIS that gives you details on steps you must take to successfully tailor package development to what consumers want. It 70 tightly-packed pages you can:
  • See why a strategic path that gets “inside the consumer’s head” is necessary to win.
  • Learn how to develop packaging that conveys product value to shoppers.
  • Learn how packaging tests can work to define consumer needs and aspirations. And learn when tests fail.
  • Read case studies that show how packaging can transform the category and create outstanding new sales growth.
  • Get clear, concise charts that detail the research process and how to integrate it into package development.

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Section 1. Executive Summary   

A. Sensation Transference    
B. Use qualitative tests the right way    
C. Know it is a strategic toolbox

Section 2. Packaging Success Case Story   

The Story of Smucker’s Plastic Squeeze for Jelly

Section 3. PTIS Packaging Lessons Learned

  • Start with the consumer!   
  • Sensation transference   
  • Remember the PTIS Product Formula©   
  • Look for gaps
  • Metrics are critical
  • Eye tracking can be a useful tool
  • Tests have to echo reality   
  • Test everything in context
  • Qualitatively test to develop insights and direction
  • Quantitatively test integrated solutions   
  • Test commercial samples
  • Preview the work of screeners and discussion guides
  • Design must support the brand   
  • Never test in the board room
  • Use observation and video   
  • Don’t accept “I can’t do that research”
  • Differentiation and relevance drive brand value
  • Push for new approaches   
  • Use case stories to relate packaging’s value
  • Rely on expertise of consumer insight pros
  • Packaging is responsible

Section 4. Where Consumer Insights Guide Package Development   

Typical Development Cycle for New Consumer Products

Section 5. Sensation Transference - The Foundation for Packaging Consumer Insight

A. Cheskin’s contribution to marketing (and ultimately packaging)    
B. Sensation Transference and Packaging

Section 6. Critical Junctures

A. First Moment of Truth
B. Understanding How We Buy    
C. Second Moment of Truth    
D. The need for functional packaging research

Section 7. Development Tools and Processes   

A. Qualitative Tools   

Focus Groups    
1:1 and Dyads and Triads
Proprietary Insight Groups
Custom Approaches to Qualitative Research    
Observational Research: Ethnography and Exnography
Ethnographic research    
Exnographic research    
New Resources for Consumer Insight Identification   

B. Quantitative Tools   

Surveys    
Eye-Tracking Systems
Virtual Store Simulation Testing    
Usage Testing   

Section 8. Comparison of Consumer Insight  Tools and Processes   

Summary Description: Consumer Insight Tools for Package Development

Section 9. Implementing Consumer Insight Tools   

Appendix I. Case Stories

A. Case Story. Domino® Sugar Plastic Canister
B. Case story: Dutch Boy® Twist and Pour Paint Can    
C. Case Story: Dean’s Milk Chug and Flavored Milk   

Appendix II. Testing Methods in Detail   

A. Retail Experience Centers    
B. Social Networks Dimensions of social media
C. Collaborations    
D. Open Innovation

1. Procter & Gamble
2. Kraft    
3. General Mills

E. PTIS Packaging Consumer Roadmap   

Why Use It? When Is It Useful?    
Who Has Used The Consumer Roadmap Tool?
Potential Pitfalls    
Costs and Timing   

F. Quantitative Tools - Surveys
G. Eye Tracking System    
H. Virtual Reality Testing    
I. Usage Testing

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Brian Wagner

is an author, speaker and consultant at the forefront of leveraging packaging as a marketing tool.


 

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Anne Bieler

is a PTIS Associate whose expertise is in retail dynamics and retail packaging.