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A Closer Look at BRX

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Who is BRX?
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A Marketing Research Company
  • Specializing in survey research.
  • Formed by a merger of BRX Global, Inc. and Gutenberg Marketing Research.
  • Located in Canal Ponds Office Park in the offices of Catalyst Direct, Rochester, NY.


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We’re well rounded
  • We’ve developed these capabilities to meet the needs of our clients
    • Customer surveys
    • Customer Satisfaction surveys
    • Brand Equity research
    • Price sensitivity studies
    • Product development and testing research
    • Focus group management and facilitation


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Examples of our
 work…
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Custom Surveys
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Custom surveys
  • We’ve designed and implemented hundreds of custom survey projects on a wide variety of consumer and business topics during the past 20 years.
  • Our experience has ranged from two-question post-card surveys for CEO’s to online membership surveys with 1000+ variables



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Custom surveys
  • Survey media include
    • Telephone
    • In person
      • executive interviewing
      • consumer mall intercept
    • Mail
    • Online
    • Combination (e.g. phone-mail-phone)
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Custom surveys
  • Survey software includes:
    • Stat Pac
    • SPSS
    • Perseus Survey Solutions 6 (on line survey software)
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Customer Satisfaction Surveys
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Customer Satisfaction surveys
  • We’ve conducted numerous custom satisfaction surveys for consumer, non-profit, and business-to-business customers in a variety of industries including manufacturing, photography, healthcare, financial services, rehabilitation services, and many others.
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Customer Satisfaction surveys
  • Xerox has used us for 12+ years to manage their Parts and Supplies Division customer satisfaction surveys
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Brand Equity Research
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Brand Equity Research
  • We use a proprietary method developed by Joel Axelrod, BRX’s founder
  • Our approach includes:
    • Experimental design
    • Competitive context
    • Predictive scale (constant sum)
    • Diagnostics
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Brand Equity Design
  • Canandaigua Wine used our method to determine consumer reactions to new labeling for Inglenook wine.
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Price sensitivity testing
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Price sensitivity testing
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Product development and testing
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Product development and testing
  • Numerous concept tests (consumer and business products)
  • New product development placement (beta testing)
    • We managed the largest beta test ever implemented for Xerox’s SOHO group
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Focus group facilitation and management
  • Full management and moderation of local and nationwide focus groups
    • Design, recruitment, moderation, reporting
  • Experience in
    • Office products, healthcare, health insurance, education, financial services, human services, etc.
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Our goals
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Our goals
  • Give good service
    • Flexibility of a smaller organization
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Our goals
  • Give value added thinking
    • Your expertise was invaluable in designing the tests and analyzing the data for two key development projects associated with the (printer). Xerox Industrial Design and Human Interface


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Our goals continued:
  • Give value added pricing
    • Low overhead business model and low marketing costs
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Contact
  • Jeff Gutenberg, President
    • Doctorate in Business Administration, University of Southern California
    • Faculty member, State University New York at Geneseo School of Business
  • (585) 453-8387
  • jgutenberg@catdir.com