{"id":5147,"date":"2016-12-08T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpoint.it\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T09:15:31","slug":"product-testing-a-resource-for-companies-a-benefit-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testpoint.it\/en\/product-testing-a-resource-for-companies-a-benefit-for-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Product testing: a resource for Companies, a benefit for consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">To launch a new product on the market, to re-launch an improved version or to understand its positioning against competitors, Companies need qualitative and quantitative data summing up consumers\u2019 opinions about the product in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Generally speaking, these are the reasons why Companies use product testing.<br \/>\nThis has positive effects also for consumers and therefore for all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en-US\">Taking part in a product test<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Taking part in a test &#8211; together with ensuring that your opinion concretely contributes to create a product \u2013 can offer important benefits.<br \/>\nWho would not like receiving at home the products they normally use and to try them for free?<br \/>\nBy participating in the tests, you have the possibility to try cosmetic products, food products, technological products and many other types of products.<br \/>\nBy filling out a questionnaire, each of us has the possibility to \u201chave their say\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span lang=\"en-US\">How to evaluate the data from a test <\/span><\/h2>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The consumers\u2019 assessment of a product, of the way it is presented or the comparison with its competitors on the market are all elements Companies must consider when taking their decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span lang=\"en-US\">The testing techniques and the experience of the researchers who apply them are essential to systematize and make each feedback collected usable for manufacturers: that is why the market research world always search for new techniques and innovative strategies that make product testing more and more effective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The opinion of consumers who receive the products at their homes and test them, however, remain a subjective opinion.<br \/>\nDespite the undoubted importance of these opinions \u2013 because it is the subjective opinion that drives the consumer\u2019s purchase \u2013 Companies need also objective feedbacks from people with a specific expertise in this area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">That is why there are appropriate facilities where testing the products in a more technical and specific way, producing in this way objective results to be submitted to the Companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">A well-interpreted mix of consumers\u2019 objective and subjective opinions will offer Manufacturers the essential data on which to base their strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Pierluigi Salzano<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To launch a new product on the market, to re-launch an improved version or to understand its positioning against competitors, Companies need qualitative and quantitative data summing up consumers\u2019 opinions about the product in question. 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