The secondhand economy is thriving in Canada, and Kijiji is the largest facilitator of secondhand trade in the country. Thriving companies like Kijiji, need to keep a constant look ahead to innovation, growth and maintaining relevance in an ever-evolving market – and market research is no different. Sole reliance on the tried, tested and true no longer will help market researchers and our clients achieve success. Integration – in research methods used and of the different information we have access to – will be critical.
While the market leader, Kijiji was challenged to squeeze out even more success across its key businesses, each with differing needs, challenges and objectives: building and positioning the brand relevantly with target audiences; identifying and understanding new opportunity segments in successful markets while determining issues in a more resistant one; and exploring the path-to-purchase context to grow its customer base in another.
Environics and Kijiji embarked on a months-long research partnership using both traditional and newer, innovative research tools to uncover the integrated insights needed to inform its overall and business marketing strategy. This helped Kijiji to identity the most effective ways to build its brand, make inroads in a challenging market, and strengthen its stake in others.
Interest Statement:
We've entered a new era of research, with continuously-growing sources of data available, much of it readily at our fingertips – and our clients (and their customers) are expecting more added value. As similarly as Kijiji strives to disrupt the marketplace, so do market researchers feel compelled to do something new, something different, to innovate, to evolve… all while never losing sight of the core fundamentals that traditional research provides. And just as each business comes with its unique challenges, different research objectives demand customized approaches.
The session will share a few cases studies created with one client, focusing on how specific market growth and branding challenges can be effectively addressed through a thoughtfully integrated research approach – spanning secondary and primary research data – balancing both old and 'new'. We will share the combination of desk research, social media analysis, in-person focus groups, in-depth one-onones, online surveys and video-captured responses fed into an iterative, multi-phased approach that delivered insights that spoke to Kijiji's various target audiences for brand building, turning around challenging markets and growing new ones – and helped to answer the Kijiji's core business questions smartly.
Researchers and users interested in learning how a multi-method approach helps to come at business challenges from all angles, by making use of a wide range of research tools, and connecting seemingly disparate insights into a cohesive result will benefit from this session. Researchers interested in how newer tools such as social media and integrating video response capture can work in tandem with tried and true traditional methodologies will be inspired with how it can all come together.
The discussion will serve as a valuable reminder that making use of all the resources available to researchers and clients will provide the maximum (and most meaningful) outcome and helps researchers become a more insightful and collaborative partner to their clients.
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