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Predic’on Markets for Fun & Prophet Jeffrey Henning, Founder & VP of Strategy

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Predic'on  Markets  for  Fun  &  Prophet  Jeffrey  Henning,  Founder  &  VP  of  Strategy  

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12/23   CSAT  

Predic8on  Markets  

We  See  Others  Be@er  than  We  See  Ourselves  

!   Presented  at  2010  AMA  MRC  

!   Randy  Berkowitz,  VP  of  global  market  research  

!   Side-­‐by-­‐side  test  of  tradi8onal  survey  methodology  vs.  Infosurv’s  predic8ve  market  method:  !   4  concepts  tested  in  the  health  product  category  

!   5  concepts  tested  in  beauty  

!   Respondents  in  target  market  rated  many  product  a@ributes  

!   “Traders”  allocated  virtual  dollars  to  concepts  

Combe  Case  Study  

Quotes  from  par8cipants  (recruited  through  a  survey  panel):  

!   “Excellent  way  to  judge  a  product.  Makes  one  think  of  the  best  logic  and  back  it  up  since  money  is  on  the  line.”  

!   “I  loved  the  idea!  It  was  a  super  fun  way  to  preview  new  products  and  get  feedback  on  what  other  people  think.”  

!   “I  loved  it.  You  should  have  more  of  these  to  do.  They’re  fun,  and  it  helps  you  to  learn  more  about  stock  market  trading.”  

       Source:  Combe  

Predic8on  Markets  for  Fun…  

Predic'on  Market   Survey  General  popula8on   Target  popula8on  What  would  they  do?   What  would  you  do?  Most  important  number   Dozens  of  metrics  Variable  incen8ve  based  on  performance  

Flat  incen8ve  

3-­‐4  days   3-­‐4  weeks  50%  budget   100%  budget  

…and  Prophet  

Source:  Combe  

!   BrainJuicer  ran  215  experiments  across  12  categories  

!   Awarded  the  Best  Methodology  Award  by  ESOMAR…  

   in  2005  

Old  News…  

!   Companies  reluctant  to  abandon  norma8ve  databases  

!   Product  launch  failures  can  be  assigned  many  fathers…  

 besides  the  concept  test  

!   Early  adopters  have  expensive-­‐to-­‐reach  target  markets  

 

Old  News…  But  S8ll  News  

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Ques8ons?  

Jeffrey  Henning  Founder  &  VP  Strategy  @jhenning  [email protected]  1-­‐800-­‐787-­‐8755  x  550