3D Research Partners is a full-service quantitative market research consultancy, where our mission is to partner with clients to positively impact their business through data-driven decisions. If you have a business challenge or opportunity that could benefit from structured customer/stakeholder input, 3D Research is here to help. We’ll partner with you to ensure the right questions are asked in the right way; the data are analyzed extensively and from different angles; and that the story that emerges from the data is conveyed in a clear, compelling way – going beyond just providing information toward delivering impactful insights and actionable implications for your organization.
Online surveys are our specialty; solving business problems with data is our passion. As a full-service research provider, we’re prepared to manage all aspects of your project – survey instrument development, programming & hosting, respondent sample sourcing, fielding, analysis, reporting, and delivery of findings. You frame the problem/opportunity for us; we’ll handle the rest – in close collaboration with you as our partners, of course.
Read on to learn more about the problems we can help solve, and the decisions we can help support…
There are countless scenarios that could benefit from the data-driven decisions that 3D Research can help support. What scenario couldn’t benefit from more customer insight rather than the “gut and air” upon which so many business decisions are based? Below is just a small sampling of the scenarios that may suggest a good fit for a 3D Research Partners engagement...
Better understand the customers in your target market –their behaviors, attitudes, demographics, product usage/perceptions, pain points, and unmet needs.
Gauge the market appeal of potential new product/service ideas, and gain valuable formative feedback to help further refine its development.
Understand what messaging elements resonate best when it comes to telling the story you want to tell – or more importantly, what your customers want to hear – about your products and services.
Make sure your creative design and product management teams aren’t the only ones in love with the imagery and other media you’ve developed to bring your product/company story to life. Test it with customers to help refine your ideas, or test among alternatives.
Ensure your products are priced competitively, at a price point your customers deem fair and representative of the product’s value, and one that your target audience would be willing and able to support.
Take the pulse of your customer base – and/or that of your competitors – to gauge their satisfaction, and many other perception dimensions, with your company and/or products.
Advanced Customer Segmentation, Concept Optimization, Brand Equity, and more!
There are plenty of research providers out there. So why opt for 3D Research Partners? The short version: Our combination of research expertise and strategic business acumen positions us well to deliver high-quality research, translated into insights, implications, and recommendations that are highly relevant and impactful to your organization.
Want the longer version? Here are some of the ways we believe we stand out from the pack …
Nearly 15 years of market research experience on the 3D Research leadership team, with hundreds of survey projects (among others) completed. We are experts at translating business intel needs into effective, methodologically air-tight research instruments, and you’ll get nothing less (and plenty more) from us.
As research consultants, we pride ourselves on getting smart about our clients’ business dynamics in short order. We’re confident we can support clients in just about any industry with quality research – but we also come to the table with a great deal of experience concentrated across several verticals, including:
We’re not just a vendor waiting to execute on a survey project you’ve spec’ed out in full detail. Sure, if you have a confident and crystal clear vision of what you need, we’re happy to partner with you to deliver on it. But you can also come to us with just an idea, a problem, a challenge, an opportunity…any scenario you believe could potentially benefit from some customer input or structured research. We’ll think and talk through the potential options with you. And we won’t try to force the square peg into the round hole. If what we believe you really need is outside of our wheelhouse, we’ll tell you. If you think you need a survey when what you really might need is some qualitative research, we’ll tell you that too. We certainly hope we can help you get the insights you need – but if we’re not the best fit for the task, we have several trusted research providers in our network and we’d be happy to help you source the right partner for your needs.
The highest quality, most methodologically sound research isn’t all that useful if it doesn’t deliver relevant, contextualized insights and implications. We don’t just deliver research expertise; we’ll work to understand the context of your business and market dynamics, and we strive to deliver research that leverages that understanding to optimize its beneficial impact on your business.
We aren’t a “one-trick pony” that will try to fit our square peg into your round hole; every project is custom-designed to accomplish your objectives. And we have plenty of tools at our disposal to ensure success – including a robust survey platform enabling a wide variety of question types and formats, and partnerships with multiple respondent sample sources, enabling access to a variety of target audiences, from the mainstream to the highly specialized.
As a small boutique research provider, we are laser-focused on delivering high-impact research for our clients. Successful research requires close, collaborative partnership and effective, timely communication – and at 3D Research you’ll get nothing less.
Another benefit of our small organization is our very low operational cost. At 3D Research, our professional fees don’t need grossing up to account for an expansive support staff or a robust marketing budget, and we aren’t interested in turning a big profit on pass-through expenses like sample acquisition costs or respondent incentives. High quality research shouldn’t be a budget-breaker, and with 3D Research it won’t be – you’ll get high ROI research at reasonable investment levels.
Brian Feltz is the founder and principal research lead at 3D Research Partners. Since obtaining his M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 2003, Brian has enjoyed an extensive and diverse career in market research – both on the supplier and client side, covering many research methodologies and approaches (including qualitative and quantitative, concept optimization, cluster segmentation, online research communities, multi-relational databases) and in support of a broad spectrum of industries (educational publishing, food/beverage/personal care products, financial services & banking, consumer electronics, and retail – just to name a few).
The only thing Brian loves more than solving problems with data is living in beautiful Harvard, MA with his wife and two daughters (and two cats, and seven chickens…and counting?).
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