How to Create a Jobs-to-be-Done Framework to Identify AI Investments
Discover how a Jobs-to-be-Done framework can identify AI investments that solve real problems so that your AI investments drive real impact.
Avoid the Costly Flop: Achieving Product-Market Fit in the New AI Era
Achieving product-market fit ensures your AI integration becomes a profitable solution that people actually need and are willing to pay for.
AI-Fabricated Studies: A Wake-Up Call for B2B Research Integrity
Imagine a world where an entire B2B research study—participants, interviews, insights, and final deliverables—is completely fabricated by AI. Here's how to spot an inauthentic study.
12 Signs Your B2B Tech Company Needs a Market Research Agency
Here are 12 key signs that your B2B tech company could benefit from partnering with a market research agency.
AI for Market Researchers: A Practical Guide for Enhanced Data Analysis
AI tools are making a huge impact in the field of market research, particularly in the ways in which researchers are able to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data. These tools excel at efficiently processing vast amounts of information, identifying key themes, visualizing trends, and more. Their true power, however, emerges when combined with human expertise. By automating repetitive tasks, AI frees researchers to focus on their unique strengths: applying critical thinking, leveraging industry knowledge, and interpreting data to develop actionable hypotheses. By marrying AI’s processing power with researchers’ analytical skills, domain knowledge, and critical thinking, organizations can unlock deeper insights and make more informed decisions.
The Role of the Human vs. AI in Modern Market Research
Here's how AI tools can supercharge a researcher's efficiency, depth of analysis, and ability to generate actionable insights.
The Power of Tech-Only B2B Market Research Firms: Why Specialization Matters
In B2B tech, specialization isn't a luxury – it's vital. These are the specific benefits you'll receive by working with a B2B tech specialist.
Research-Backed SaaS Marketing Strategy: Your 5-Step Guide
Here’s how to incorporate research into every stage of your SaaS marketing strategy development for maximum impact.
ICP Research: Transforming Market Mirages into Real Opportunities
ICP research reveals your most profitable market opportunities, sharpening your focus for maximum sales and product success.
SaaS Churn: 5 Reasons Why Your Customers Are Leaving
These are the top 5 reasons why we see SaaS customers churn – and what you can do to turn things around.
SaaS Go-To-Market Strategy: The Crucial Role of Research
SaaS go-to-market research is the crucial element that builds a GTM strategy built on certainty – not guesswork.
B2B Quantitative Research: Designing High-Impact Surveys
In a B2B quantitative research survey, these specific question types can make for a challenging analysis phase.
B2B Qualitative Research: The Power of Follow-Up Questions
Follow-up questions are indispensable in B2B qualitative research. These are the top tactics that we employ to ensure that we gather quality responses.
Case Study – How to Use B2B Message Testing to Drive Leads and Sales
Here's how we used message testing to help our client understand what messages would resonate best with B2B customers.
The Power of Niche Positioning for Professional Services
Niche positioning allows professional services to generate more value for their clients, deliver higher quality services, and so much more.
SaaS Messaging and Positioning: Successful vs. Struggling
Discover what differentiates successful vs. struggling SaaS messaging and positioning, featuring real-world SaaS website examples.
Cascade Insights Announces New Ownership Structure
Cascade Insights, a leading provider of market research and marketing services to B2B-focused technology companies, is pleased to announce that it has transitioned from a dual to a single ownership structure. Due to this change, as of June 16th, 2023, Sean Campbell, Cascade Insights’ long-standing CEO, has become the company’s sole owner. Moving forward, you can expect us to serve you in all the ways we have in the past, alongside some new and creative approaches to research and marketing that we look forward to sharing with you. — Cascade Insights is a trusted advisor to enterprises, mid-markets, and startups focused on the tech sector. Our team includes a potent mix of seasoned market researchers and experienced marketers, all of whom are 100% focused on B2B. At Cascade Insights, our goal is to help you Act With Clarity™.
Generative Image AI: A Picture of B2B Marketing to Come
Generative image AI has a lot of potential uses in B2B Marketing, but only if you know how to write prompts to get the results you expect.
AI Content Marketing Tools: A Supersuit for Modern Marketers
AI-based content assistants are continuing to evolve, and a marketer who fails to get used to wearing a super-suit will be left behind. Worse yet, while you’re falling behind personally, your team, company, clients, or partners will feel the pain as well.
Why SaaS Companies Need Market Research
SaaS companies require specialized B2B market research partners that understand their unique challenges. The following case studies illustrate exactly how we’ve managed to meet those needs.
Video: Cascade Insights Company History – What We Don’t Do
Services firms need to be able to say where they provide value and where they don't. This is our story of how we came up with that answer.
B2B Thought Leadership: Tough Times Call for a Second Opinion
B2B thought leadership is more important than ever during a tough economic period. These are our five tips for creating great thought leadership content during a downturn.
Message Maps, Frameworks, and More: Decrypting the Differences for the B2B Marketer
Have you ever wondered if there are any significant differences between the ways marketers label a messaging effort? We decrypt those here.
4 Market Research Studies Every Biotech Startup Needs
B2B market research helps biotech startups get buy-in from investors with insights that help plan for a successful launch and sustained success.
4 Ways B2B Buyer Persona Research Supports the Sales Process
Just as actors rely on their script to perform well in a movie, sales people rely on B2B buyer persona knowledge to understand buyers throughout the sales process.
B2B Messaging Frameworks: Grounded by Research, Activated by Marketing
The best messaging frameworks come from research and marketing teams working together. Here’s how to make it happen.
3 Types of Market Research to Benefit Healthcare Cybersecurity Startups
Here’s how market research can help a rapidly-expanding healthcare cybersecurity startup grow in the right direction.
Don’t Stop Believin’ in Message Testing
Great B2B messaging, just like a great song, resonates. To resonate with buyers, it’s best to learn from the greatest hits of all time.
Panel Providers Vs. Expert Networks: Who Gives the Highest Quality Respondents?
Research vendors should field surveys with high-quality respondents. But as we have discovered, that’s not always the case. Our investigative journey digs into the issues we found with some vendors and how we made those discoveries.
5 Pieces of Bad News a Competitive Landscape Analysis Can Deliver
A competitive landscape analysis has the potential to shock marketers with bad news. Here are five examples of things to look out for and how to respond.
4 Types of Bad News B2B Brand Research Delivers
Brand research can sometimes reveal bad news to good marketers. Here’s how to take the negative news and use it to improve your company’s brand.
B2B Buyer Persona Research: Truth Over Templates
Are you wasting your time with buyer persona templates? These case studies show how customized B2B buyer persona research can make a difference.
Cascade Insights Recognized as Top Business to Work for in Oregon
Here’s Cascade Insights’ account on how we became a “top business to work for in Oregon” as a 100% remote company.
B2B Buyer’s Journey: Buyers and Marketers in the Blender
Are you in a new role? Has your marketing budget been slashed? You’re not alone. The B2B Buyer’s Journey has changed, and you need research to stay ahead.
B2B Customer Experience Research: Turn Grimaces Into Grins
Learn how to turn your customers’ grimaces into grins by including qualitative research in your approach to customer satisfaction.
B2B Quantitative Surveys: Design Them Like You Give A Damn
You can’t write an effective quantitative survey if you don’t care. Yet, unfortunately, that’s how many surveys are created today, by folks who don’t give a damn. Follow these 8 steps to design great research questions.
