About This Webinar
Additional Q&A -
Q: How can I distribute my questionnaire? If I am in the early stage of designing a specific product for India and I know my target audience... How can I reach them? Do you know any mailing services or lists?
A: In the US and Europe, the first two places we would look would be the following:
a. Professional societies that reflect your target audience - see if they offer email blasts as part of the advertising
b. Trade journals that target your proposed audience - again, look under "advertising" to see if they offer email blasts.
In both cases, confirm that you are able to include the link directly to your study. Another tip: Ask if they personalize the email (use mail merge). We get a much better response if we sent out emails to "Dear [First Name]", rather than just "Dear Colleague" or "Dear Sir".
Q: Helicos BioScience was delisted but they were at INFINITY for the M/E ratio. What went wrong?
A: Perhaps their M = 0?
Join us for a
FREE webinar: From Product to Profit
Early-stage, user-based research can impact business development, RD&E and rapid market penetration, and this webinar will tell you how. The presentation will include:
1. Two magic numbers that can determine if your product will be profitable;
2. Early-stage, user-based market research: the how, when, why, and where;
3. Impact on business development, product profitability, and speed to market;
4. Case Studies
a. How a study on the back of a bingo card led to a five-fold increase in sales
b. How two questions moved a product from the back burner into a sales leader
c. The answer was “No,” but it saved the client $500,000
Wednesday, July 30, 2014, from noon to 1 p.m. EDT
Presenter Barbara Foster just celebrated her 30th anniversary in this field. Between her work within industry leaders such as Zeiss, Cambridge/Reichert-Jung (now part of Leica) and Sarastro, and over 20 years in consulting, she has constructed strategy for and/or launched more than 100 products and seven companies. In addition to her business and product development experience, she is a master microscopist, with specialties in interferometry, microspectrophotometry, polarized light and fluorescence. She is a consulting editor to
American Laboratory and frequent contributor to other key publications including
BioPhotonics,
R&D and
Microscopy Today.
Foster runs the consulting firm The Microscopy & Imaging Place Inc., which specializes in early-stage, user-based market studies, as well as product and company launches. While their focus is on microscopy and spectroscopy, the expansion of imaging has taken them into far-flung fields ranging from microarrays and biotech to semiconductors and photonics.