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Marketplace Detectives

Discover Exactly How to Take Your Company
to Phenomenal Sales and Profits Through
Incredible Customer Relationships, Now!

  • What would the impact on your business be if you increased both sales and profits?

  • Would you like to have your customers in a buying frenzy at your next product release?

  • How would you like to build such rock solid relationships with your market that your sales and your profits take off like a shot?

We’re the Answer
 
Marketplace Detective will help you if you
answered "yes" to any of the above.

I’ve been a strategic business consultant for over 25 years.  In that time, I’ve helped clients use surveys to get input from customers, prospects, citizens, employees and teams within companies.  I’ve also run a large organization and for the last 25 years I’ve been an entrepreneur, so I know exactly what it’s like to deal with the realities of business every day.


You know you must be focused on sales, profits and customer relationships to succeed.  When I asked businesses owners what they want market research surveys to do for them, here's what they said:

  • Learn what customers want, thus make more sales

  • Insight into what new product features would turn prospects into customers

  • Increase customer loyalty, traffic and referrals

  • Qualify prospects

  • Build customer and prospect lists

  • Generate new business

  • Turn survey feedback into profits

  • Know the wants, needs, challenges and problems of your market

  • Get the most "bang for your buck" in doing surveys

  • Avoid pitfalls and mistakes in doing surveys

  • Know how to create the survey questions

Build Trust

Let me tell you a story

Dead in the Water Are Us, Inc. isn’t doing so well. Their sales are falling. Their employee morale is in the tank. Their profit margins are rapidly shrinking. And unless they do something very soon, they’re going to be out of business. Their competition seems to always have the edge somehow. What’s going on here? These guys aren’t much of a threat, are they?
But wait; by any chance did any of this sound like your business? Are you the company your competition isn’t worried about? If this sounds like your business, aren’t you sick and tired of maximum struggle for minimum reward?

Our story continues ...

The Titanic Has Nothing on Us, Inc. has launched a new product that they’ve put tons of money into developing and marketing. Customers are indifferent. Sales are terrible. The impact on the bottom line of the company is disastrous and the news in the business press is affecting their credibility in the industry. To add insult to injury, this has caused their customers to shy away and their sales to fall even further. The downward spiral is picking up speed and the outlook is pretty grim. OK, so these guys don’t look like much of a threat either.

But, have you ever been in their shoes, even a little bit? If any of this fits your business, what’s the impact down the road going to be on your peace of mind and your business success?
Let’s take a look at a competitor you were really worried about 8 months ago and see how they’re doing now.

If Only We’d Known Up Front, Inc. launched a new product successfully and thought they had it made. Within six months of the product launch, customer service crashed because they weren’t prepared for what their customers expected. The more the complaint and return rate soared the more their reputation sank. This sucked away attention from the other parts of their business, which then began to suffer. As consumer confidence eroded, so did their bottom line. And what started out as a shinning triumph turned into an embarrassing disaster.

If any of this describes your business, how much longer can it withstand this?
For that matter, how much longer can you stand it?

What’s your company’s story? Perhaps your own situation is a less dramatic . . .

Maybe your company is doing OK, but sales are growing very slowly, if at all, and profits are nothing to write home about, while expenses continue to inch up day-by-day, and sometimes, in leaps and bounds. Nothing really dramatic is happening, but the lack of progress means you’re slowly sliding backwards, like being in slow acting quicksand. In business there is no such thing as standing still. It may not be obvious at first, but you could be on the road to trouble, couldn’t you?

Maybe your company is doing pretty well. Sales and profits are climbing slowly, but fairly steadily and your company is not in any danger of fading away, but you’re convinced you can do a lot better. You know your company has something to offer the market, but it just hasn’t caught fire and, right now, there is no indication that it ever will.

Maybe you’re better off than all those companies above, but YOU WANT MORE…….


What’s the secret to success in business? 

  • It’s knowing exactly what your customers’ wants, needs and desires
    are and providing products and services that match them every single time.

  • Knowledge is power!

  • How do you gain this knowledge about your marketplace?  You ask them.


You may have done market research using surveys, or used other techniques for gathering
information about the wants, needs and desires of your prospects and your customers. 

BUT . . . . . . .

Did you build long lasting, loyal customer relationships as a result?

What happened after you got the information? And what was the impact on your
bottom line? Most businesses don’t use the power of surveys very effectively.

Many businesses are unsuccessful with
or hesitate to use surveys because:

They aren’t sure what they’ll get out of it
They don’t know how to reach their target population
They're not sure what the right questions are or how to write them
They don’t know how to address the other issues in survey design
They think people won’t respond to their survey
They fear it will be too much work for too little payoff

Would't you like to easily become a master
at effectively using surveys for market research?

Let’s look at one more scenario...... (It has a happy ending, I promise!)

Phoenix Company aspired to be the leader in their market, but they were struggling with customer retention.  They were thinking that the solution to that was to launch a new product with a lot of hoopla.  But, as it happened, luckily they purchased Marketplace Detective and followed its easy instructions for their market research.

And what they discovered was that the product they were getting ready to build, which was going to cost a substantial amount of time and money, was absolutely not the product that their customers wanted.  So, they not only avoided wasting all that money, but in the process, they discovered exactly what their customers did want. 

So what did they do then?  They proceeded to build and launch that product and their sales increased by 27.9%.  So then they did exactly what the Marketplace Detective system told them to do.  They followed up with those customers and prospects on a regular basis getting more input, getting better ideas for exactly how to tweak the product.  They found out precisely what service and support their customers really wanted.  They built a relationship so that when they needed to know things, their customers actually responded and told them.

Based on the customer feedback they got, they improved their product and service. Their sales rose again by an additional 21.7%.   As a result of getting this input from their customers, they discovered that they actually could build an entire suite of products around their customers’ needs.  So, they began a two-year development process to bring out three additional new products. During that time they stayed in close contact with their customers via surveys and updates on the results of those surveys.  Through that process, they developed a list of people anxiously awaiting the release of the product who wanted to buy it as soon as it become available.

They successfully launched all three of those products because they knew exactly what their customers wanted and how they wanted it delivered.  Their customer service got rave reviews. Sales quadrupled and the profitability of the company soared.

Would you like to have your company become a star like Phoenix?

Now You Can

Marketplace Detective helps you to understand your customers' needs, wants and desires. As a result, you will drive more sales and keep your customers longer. The lifetime value of your customers will be much higher and your profits will be much greater, now and in the future.

"You completely reveal how to drive sales through the roof with just a few simple questions. Not only do you demonstrate how to make more money by creatively implementing surveys, you walk me through the process from A-Z leaving nothing to chance." 
  -  David Perdew, corporate consultant and business owner

Marketplace Detective is a Complete Solution

It’s not just about asking questions.
It’s about giving value.
It’s not just about single survey events.
It’s about building relationships.
It’s about win-win.

Accelerate Your Growth
With Marketplace Detective!

Business owners know that they need to communicate with their market and that surveys are a great way to do it, but are unsure how to do it to get super results.  Isn’t that so?  Most have no idea how powerful a business builder surveys can be when used really effectively. They want help, but don't know where or how to get it. 

Marketplace Detective takes you by the hand and walks you through every step
of using surveys in market research including:

blue checkmark Understanding all the possible benefits of using surveys
blue checkmark Target market identification
blue checkmark Survey project planning
blue checkmark Getting the most bang for your buck from your surveys
blue checkmark How to design your survey including question creation
blue checkmark Options for distribution and data collection
blue checkmark How to structure your data analysis
blue checkmark How to wring maximum benefit out of what you have uncovered
blue checkmark How to create a success system that builds ongoing positive momentum

The Marketplace Detective systematic approach to survey use in market research goes well beyond doing and analyzing a survey.  It shows you how surveys can be a powerful tool in building relationships and shaping everything you do in your business. 

With the Marketplace Detective system, you will become a master 
at every aspect of using surveys to supercharge your business.

Create sales and profits that you’ve
only dreamed of until now!

When you apply the Marketplace Detective strategies you

Grow your sales and your profits exponentially
  • Know your customers’ and your prospects’ wants, needs and desires
  • Internalize an understanding of the problems, challenges and dreams of your market
  • Tailor your product development precisely to your market wants and needs
  • Offer only products and services that your customers are willing to pay for now
  • Ensure great return on investment from laser focused marketing campaigns
  • Build a foundation for the future
  • Save time, money and frustration
  • Build enormous trust and credibility with your customer base
  • Have a referral rate that just grows and grows
  • Have greatly increased repeat business
  • Have a customer retention rate better than the industry norm or your competition
  • Get input from your customers any time you need it because of your relationship
  • Have an incredibly motivated sales force
  • Beat the competition by a very wide margin
  • Are now a leader in your industry and your market
  • Have stockholders, family members and employees who are deliriously happy
  • Have high quality applicants beating down your door
  • Have joint venture partners coming to you in droves
  • Have customers passionately referring others - they are your best sales force!
What’s Unique about the Marketplace Detective System?

I conducted research to find out what my customers want in a survey based market research system. And, as always happens, I discovered some things that changed the way I built this system.  What did I discover?  Well, some customers want a complete system that allows them to create their own surveys from scratch and know that they are doing it right, but others want something quick and easy that doesn't’t require knowing how to create a survey or take a lot of time and effort to do it.

In response to these needs, I built Marketplace Detective to be very versatile. No matter what your needs are in using surveys to do market research, this product will work for you.  What was that?  Oh, you’d like a peek into the inner workings of Marketplace Detective. OK, let’s take a little tour, shall we?

The Marketplace Detective System
The Marketplace Detective Quick Start Guide gives you a simple, but powerful turn-key system that you can begin implementing immediately once you have this product. It doesn't’t require that you learn anything about how to create surveys correctly. I hand you a set of surveys ready to be customized by you. I even show you how to sequence 5 of them into a complete survey campaign for new product development. That would be really easy, wouldn't’t it?

Surveys are included for getting input in four areas
:
  • Current products and services
  • New products and services
  • General market research
  • Checking customer satisfaction levels

  • The Marketplace Detective Survey Project Action Guide walks you through creating your own survey project and system for your business.  It leads you through each survey project step-by-step.  As you create your own surveys, you simultaneously discover how to do this well until you become a master at it. If you started with the Quick Start Guide, when you are ready to do more, this system will take you exactly where you need to go.  If you're already beyond the Quick Start, then you start here. That gives you real control, doesn't’t it?
    The Marketplace Detective Comprehensive Manual for Survey Mastery is a complete practical reference resource.  It explains the reasons behind the most effective way to create and use surveys to build your business.  It's also a quick reference guide where you will find the answers to your specific questions about using surveys for market research.
    The Survey Question and Response Scale Library currently contains over 300 sample questions and more than 100 sample response scales, sorted by survey type like customer service or current product improvement.  You can use these as written or customize them to your particular situation.
    If you prefer video or you want the executive summary version, then this is for you! In less than 2 hours, this video will have you more knowledgeable and comfortable in using surveys for market research than you could possibly have imagined. It's a pleasure to watch while you listen to the special tips from Marie along the way.

    Audio Interviews

    Mark Hendricks
    90 minute interview with Mark Hendricks, one of the most widely respected and experienced internet marketing educators in the world, wherein he shares many secrets for using surveys in your online business plus the complete PDF transcript of that interview. This is invaluable information for internet based businesses and offline businesses desiring an effective online presence.
    Terry Dean
    65 minute interview with renowned Internet Marketing Mentor, Terry Dean. Terry has built a million dollar business by expertly leveraging the power of the internet.  He shares inside tips on how to be successful using surveys, with special attention to using surveys before you enter a new market and much, much more. Terry gives practical real life suggestions for using surveys in both online and offline businesses. Includes PDF transcript.
    Rick Jorgenson
    80 minute interview with Rick Jorgenson, sales and marketing expert for both online and offline businesses for over 20 years, whose experience includes online lead generation campaigns for Fortune 50 corporations as well as for small to medium size businesses. Rick includes the secret to how he used surveys to vastly increase his conversion rate, creative ways to get the best lists for conducting market research and much more.  Includes PDF transcript. 
    Marie Kane: Relationships
    Brief, high impact interview with Marie Kane on using surveys to build relationships. You’ll never think about surveys the same way again! PDF transcript included.
    Marie Kane Small Business
    60 minute interview of Marie Kane talking with Ken Compton on using surveys in the home inspection business industry.  Ken also shares his wisdom as a veteran in sales and marketing, coach to small business owners and business owner himself.  Marie includes tips on survey use in general as well as specifics for this industry, which can be generalized to similar small business situations.

    Use Marketplace Detective Now and
    You Will Make Your Business Successful!

    Take a peek inside the Table of Contents of the Comprehensive Manual for
    Survey Mastery that is just one part of this system.

    Table of Contents
    1.   Introduction
    2.   Why do market research using surveys?
    3.   Targeting your survey
    4.   Recruiting participants
    5.   Survey format and delivery methods
    6.   Scheduling
    7.   Sample size, response rates and incentives for participation
    8.   Managing your survey project
    9.   Ethical and privacy issues
    10.   Creating your survey
    11.   Pre-testing your survey
    12.   Data analysis
    13.   Follow-up
    14.   Surveys as a relationship building vehicle
    15.   Creating a system for regular survey use in your business
    16.   Checklists
        A. Keys to getting the most "bank for your buck"
        from your survey process
        B. Avoid the fifteen most common pitfalls and
        mistakes in using surveys for market research
    Appendix
        A. Feedback Survey from Pretest Participants
        B. Cover Letter Samples
        C. Specific Recommendations for Conducting Interviews >

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    Here's the Entire Marketplace Detective System!

    For the Physical product everything is supplied in a physical product shipped to you. In addition, owners of the physical product also get full free membership site and access to the digital download version of the product. Owners of the digital download version of the product receive the same material and membership site access, but no physical product.

    Here’s what’s included:

    • The Comprehensive Manual for Survey Mastery with everything you need to know

    • The Quick Start Guide containing easily customizable surveys ready to use complete with response scales and a complete survey campaign for new product development.
    • Surveys are included for getting input in four areas:

      • Current products and services

      • New products and services

      • General market research

      • Checking customer satisfaction levels

    • The Step-by-Step Survey Project Action Guide that leads you through the process so that you create your surveys one easy step at a time

    •  The Survey Question and Response Scale Library with over 300 sample survey questions and over 100 sample response choice sets

    • An Audio that is cued to and augments the Action Guide for those who prefer to both see and hear the material

    • Video presentation of all the key concepts and steps in using surveys successfully for market research. This video provides an excellent executive summary of the material found in the Comprehensive Manual for Survey Mastery

    • Many hours of audio interviews with practical, real world survey experts sharing their secrets with you and the transcripts of those interviews

    • Free Gold membership site for online access to all parts of the product with the right to allow any employee in your company to access it.  Complete online access allows you the flexibility to do things like download the MP3 audios to an MP3 player, for example, or have multiple people using the information simultaneously.

    Features of the Physical Product include:

    • A quality tab indexed binder with each of your main manuals and guides plus extra tabs for the special reports that will be provided periodically as updates

    • Standard audio CD’s of all the audios that can be played on any CD player, including your car, or computer with standard media player software.  You can listen wherever is convenient for you. 

    • A separately bound transcript of all the audio interviews

    • The video “How to Use Surveys for Market Research” is ideal to orient those developing your surveys to all the keys to successful survey use. The physical product includes a data CD with Flash video so you have complete portability. You can show it, using your computer, to a group in your company or play it on your individual computer even when you don’t have internet access available.

    • Complete access to the online version of the product.  You have total flexibility with both print and online formats.

    Additional Features Are:

    • Free Monthly group consultation where you get to ask questions and get answers about your own current survey project and simultaneously learn from the questions of others (This one alone is worth the investment in this product.)

    • Free lifetime online updates as new material is added to the product

    • Risk Free 12 Month Money Back Guarantee – if not satisfied, you get your money back

    With the above system in hand, you simply decide which of the many commercially available software platforms that you want to use if you're doing your surveys electronically, then implement your survey process and watch your sales and profits take off! 

    Using surveys is easy once you know what to do and how to do it. Marketplace Detective shows you how to easily use surveys to research your market so you build enormous competitive advantage. Wouldn't that be fantastic for your business?

    With Marketplace Detective
    Your Business Will Take Off Because

    Products and Services are targeted to what your customers and prospects are already looking for and willing to pay for
    You have a system that not only gets you this critical information, but also provides a vehicle for staying in touch with your prospects and customers
    You have a relationship of trust and loyalty with your customers
    Concerns about survey design and implementation are a thing of the past
    The system helps you turbo-charge your business whether you are a newcomer or an old hand at your business
    You improve the positioning of your business regardless of how well or how poorly you are currently doing

    "Asking better questions is the sure way to get better answers from the marketplace. The examples and many methods that you provide for extracting information are brilliant. This is a step-by-step executable program that every business owner should implement. The who, what, when, why and how is covered. You didn't miss anything! You have shown the way to use surveys to increase customer response and company profits exponentially." 
      -  David Bullock, Internationally know expert on testing market messages and improving sales and profits

    Marketplace Detective works equally well
    for online and offline businesses

    Marketplace Detective will help you to:

  • Grow your business more rapidly and successfully

  • Increase your profitability significantly

  • Use your time and resources wisely

  • Reduce or eliminate current frustrations

  • Create a foundation for ongoing success
  • Marketplace Detective gives you the magic formula to accomplish your business goals far into the future. Right now, is the time to discover how this supremely effective system can make you very successful, year after year.

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    This product will pay for itself hundreds or thousands of times over when you really use the information because of the impact on your business. It gets even better.  The product will continue to evolve as future upgrades are already in the works and price increases are anticipated.  Purchasers of Marketplace Detective now at the current prices will receive all future upgrades at no additional cost.  You will receive what those paying much higher prices later on do. Upgrades will be made available on the Marketplace Detective owners free gold membership site and notices will be sent each time these become available.

    Here are upgrades we currently have planned for 2008 with more to come!

    • Additional checklists covering more aspects of the system as shown in the Comprehensive Manual for Survey Mastery
    • Interviews with business owners and managers who are successfully using surveys to build their businesses where they share their experience and secrets
    • Addition of more ready to use surveys to the Quick Start Guide
    • A special report on some leading survey software platforms and the key differences, advantages and applications of each

    OK, so about now you’re asking, how much is
    this investment in my business going to be?

    The impact of using this product in your business is worth thousands of times what you are investing in it.  You will start reaping these benefits as soon as you start using the Marketplace Detective System. 

    For the Physical product, the current product at the time of purchase is supplied in a physical product shipped to you. In addition, owners of the physical product also get full free membership site and access to the digital download version of the product. Owners of the digital download version of the product receive the same material and membership site access, but no physical product.  Product upgrades are provided digitally to all product owners.

    The price of the physical product is $897.00 plus shipping and tax, if applicable.  The price of the digital download product is $797.00.

    Let's put this in perspective.  The average client pays me, as a corporate consultant, to do surveys for them using the very same knowledge and techniques that I lay out completely for you in Marketplace Detective, but they pay me $5,000 to $30,000 to do that, depending upon the scope of the project.  You can do surveys for your business using that same knowledge because Marketplace Detective is "Virtual Marie"!

    There’s nothing on the market like this!

    Believe me, that was the first thing I checked before I decided to create this.  I invite you to do as I did and go online or to your local bookstore and try to find a system that not only takes you by the hand and walks you through every step of using surveys for market research to build your business, but also hands you a turn-key quick start package AND gives you  access to free consultation every month on your surveys AND lifetime updates and special reports at no charge. 

    I couldn’t find one and, I assure you, I looked.  I wasn’t about to build this system if someone else had already done it.  After all, it was a huge amount of work and I wasn’t interested in building a “me too” product.  (And, neither should you be in your business!)

    No one else has everything Marketplace Detective offers

    I really hope you take a giant step towards building your business and your profits now.
    Nothing would please me more than seeing you and your business be hugely successful.

    Shape Your Own Future!

    Be the first to take advantage of this great system.
    You owe it to yourself and your business!

    Here’s another reason to act now. If other people in your marketplace are applying the principles found in Marketplace Detective, no matter how they know them, then they know what your market wants, needs and will pay for.  When they deliver it, you will have lost competitive advantage and all the sales and profits that go with it. 

    This isn’t about me. It’s about you and your business and
    how soon you want to create the business, the profits and
    the life that you’ve always wanted.

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    Don't Be Caught Short!

    If your business is not where you want it to be, nothing will ever change until you change what you’re doing. If you’re currently losing money, you’re going to go on losing money unless you change something. There’s no treading water in business. You either really swim, or you’re sinking. If you’re standing still, then you’re going backwards.

    You want to eliminate all these frustrations and get all the benefits of a powerful survey system that supercharges your business, so order now.

    When you use Marketplace Detective you will

    • Turbo-charge your business

    • Target products and services to what your market wants and is willing to pay for

    • Have no more unanswered questions about using surveys in your market research

    • Have customers who will trust you and be loyal to you

    • Apply the system to your business presence both online and offline

    Nowhere else are you going to get what the
    Marketplace Detective System gives you

    • The Comprehensive Manual for Survey mastery with everything you need to know about using surveys

    • A Quick Start Guide containing easily customizable surveys ready to use complete with response scales

    • A Step-by-Step Survey Project Action Guide that leads you through the process so that you create your surveys one easy step at a time. What may have seemed overwhelming becomes clear and easy when you just follow the process

    • The Survey Question and Response Scale Library with over 90 pages of sample survey questions and response choices

    • An Audio that is cued to and augments the Action Guide for those who prefer to both see and hear the material

    • Video presentation of all the key concepts and steps in using surveys successfully for market research. This video provides an excellent executive summary of the material found in the Comprehensive Manual for Survey Mastery.

    • Many hours of audio interviews with practical, real world survey experts sharing their secrets with you and the transcripts of those interviews

    • Free monthly group consultation where you get to ask questions and get answers about your own current survey project and simultaneously learn from the questions of others

    • A Risk Free 12 Month Money Back Guarantee

    So now that you have Marketplace Detective in your business toolkit, you implement your survey process and watch your sales and profits grow! Won't that be great?

    This system allows you to master using surveys to supercharge your business. Then, watch your business take off!

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    Every day you don’t take action you’re losing money and losing ground.

    Partnering together we will build your business and your dreams.

    See you in the winner’s circle!

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