Pharmaceutical market research solutions
RapiTests® print
effectiveness
Scope
Central location tests enable to pre-test ads and study
magazines in a totally controlled and
secure environment.Central location tests are used to:
- validate and diagnostic your new print
- compare various alternatives to select a winner
- study media characteristics and "ad vehicling" capabilities

Validate and diagnostic new material
A simple test exposing a new print to a
sample of 75 practitioners or other health care professionals can help
validate its objectives.Options can include:
- additional open-ended questions or mini-depths interviews to provide explanations on improvements
- an optimization module to model an optimal copy studying respondents "liking" or "choices" of its various analytical features
- with an increased sample of 150 respondents, two sub samples of
75 respondents can compare uptake among
two different target groups. (i.e. specialists versus generalists)
Select a winner among alternatives
Testing various alternative prints increases chances to find a
winner.
Selection compares new alternatives, and when an enhancement is
envisaged, its current version should be used as benchmark.Two techniques are proposed depending on the number and nature of tested materials:
- Sequential
comparisons: When many prints are compared to seek one or a few
winners, or if materials are in a draft or rendering format, 1WR
recommends that
sequential tests be performed. Sequential comparisons enable
respondents to review the various alternatives and indicate her/his
preferences.
- Matched sampling comparisons: When materials have reached a prototype stage or are compared to its current version, 1WR recommends using matched samples comparisons.
Study media differences or
complementarities
Special tests may assess media "ad vehicling capabilities" in terms
of
characteristics and adequacy.
Reporting
Typical RapiTests projects include: - methodological recommendations
- questionnaire preparation and translations
- central location fieldwork
- top line results (delivered 48h after fieldwork)
- tables, project files, appendices
- report and presentation.
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updated last Sept. 2004
updated last Sept. 2004