Clay Dethloff is an expert qualitative researcher who excels in uncovering consumer perceptions and motivations. Below is a collection of blogs he has written.

Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Driving Results:

Bringing Qualitative and Quantitative Together (pdf file)

Integrating qualitative with quantitative can lead to more actionable insights.

Activation Workshops

Speed of Implementation:

Why It’s the Ultimate Competitive Advantage

How do you energize an entire organization to adopt a new roadmap?

Customer Brand Connection

“Disconnecting” the Customer-Brand Connection

What happens when a brand we love or grew up with makes a change that feels like a betrayal?

Become a Research Superhero With An Activation Workshop

Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Activation Workshops are extremely effective in both consumer and B2B environments.

The Art of Pivoting

The Art of Pivoting

Utilizing insights and data to pick a direction to pivot to, will help to ensure a successful change.

Key Elements to Advertising

Super Bowl…

Are You Ready For Some Ads?

It is critical that the ads have a purpose and a driving strategy, and fits within the overall campaign.

Qualitative Research

The Eye Of The Beholder

To better understand the consumer perspective, and make sure that we do understand the world from the “eye of the beholder” (i.e. consumer)

Understanding you Customers

Newton’s Law of Inertia:

Conduct a Consumer Checkup

Organizations need to understand who their current customers are and the issues that are important to them.

Online Survey Sample

Where’s My Herd?

Connecting with Consumers

People by nature seek to belong to groups, and a general sense of community is important and needed.

Path to Purchase

Workshops: A Conduit For Change

At its top levels, workshops provide the opportunity for organizations to internalize and process information

Qualitative Research

Breaking Through Information Polarization In An Online World

What happens when Information Polarization is taken out of the consumers’ hands?

Helping Business Grow

Helping Your “Garden” to Thrive:

Ideas to Help Your Business Grow

Business, like gardening, is not static; it’s a living and changing thing. With both, you have to expect the unexpected.

Shopping Research

What Are Consumers’ Current In-Store Shopping Behaviors

As a retailer, how do your “brick and mortar” stores fit into the consumer’s purchase journey?

Customer Horizon

Keep an Outward Focus

We too often look inward and focus on the here and now, rather than what may be a ways off, out on the horizon.

Motivating Marketing Segmentation

We Need to Motivate Those Segments

Regardless of how segments are developmented, once the segments are identified, the question always becomes, ‘Now what do we do?’