Three Reasons to Start Utilizing Focus Groups for Strategic Decision Making

by | Jun 5, 2014 | Market Research Expertise |

You may have been considering focus groups for some time but are unsure if they are right for your business. Here are some insights as to how your business can benefit from focus groups. We hope that this might help speed up your decision to employ this powerful tool in your strategic decision making process.

Focus Groups Strategic Decision Making

Immediate Results: Immediate results means quick changes. If the group feels that you should change an aspect of your business, it will not take months, or even days, to hear their opinion. Your business can implement changes right away. Also, immediate results take current trends and technology into consideration. This means that you will not hear an opinion that is obsolete because of technological advances or a change in the market.

Get Opinions From Around The World: This can be important for a number of reasons. For businesses with many locations, or global reach, you may not have access to speak directly with people in all of those locations. That can change through online focus groups as they provide direct access to far-reaching opinions.

View Your Business Through the Eyes of Clients/Customers: Viewing your business or marketing campaign through the eyes of your clients/customers can help you in many ways. Gaining the perspective of your clients will allow you to understand how to better market your business, providing insight so that you will reach your target audience. This can be an enormous advantage because reaching the right audience is imperative. You are better off reaching ten people that are interested in your product/service than one-hundred people that don’t have a need for it.

Learn more about focus groups, or our other marketing research programs, please contact us. We look forward to helping you integrate focus groups into your business plan.