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.
The Secret to B2B Sales Messaging Success: Marketing-Sales Synergy
Integrating sales expertise is essential for effective B2B messaging. Here's how marketers can harness the strength of their sales teams.
Offsite 2023
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SaaS Messaging and Positioning: Successful vs. Struggling
Discover what differentiates successful vs. struggling SaaS messaging and positioning, featuring real-world SaaS website examples.
Video: Top 5 Types of B2B Market Research
We often get the question: what are the most popular kinds of B2B market research projects? Here's our answer.
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 ...
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.
Video: Expert Networks vs. Panel Providers for B2B Research Studies
Expert networks are a fast-moving new industry that comes with both risks and rewards. These are the potential benefits B2B companies could gain – or what risks they might face – by working with expert networks.
Video: B2B vs. B2C Market Research – Key Project Differences
Almost every aspect of a B2B product is different from B2C. Here’s how those differences result in different strategies and approaches when conducting B2B market research.
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.
Video: B2B Market Research Recruitment – Right People, Right Questions™
Here are the best ways to recruit the best participants for a B2B research study – and how to get the most valuable info from them.
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.
Video: Why B2B Organizations Need Buyer Personas
Buyer personas are table takes for any B2B organization. These are the times when it is particularly crucial for an organization to procure buyer persona research.
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.
Video: How To Activate Your B2B Market Research Recommendations
Strong and compelling recommendations should always be included in market research findings. Here's how to activate them.
B2B Market Research: Exposing the Truth
In an industry where the truth is evolving at a rapid pace, you can trust B2B market research projects to uncover the truth and provide a guide for the future.
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.
Video: B2B Market Research Firms – We Deliver Bad News to Good People
Our unofficial saying around here is, "We deliver bad news to good people". Here's why.
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.
B2B Focus Groups: Virtual for the Win
Technology has changed how we conduct B2B focus groups. Learn some of the best techniques to get quality data from virtual market research.
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.
Untrustworthy B2B Thought Leadership: 3 Red Flags To Watch Out For
Just because a B2B thought leadership piece exists does not mean that it’s credible. Watch out for these 3 red flags to signal it’s untrustworthy.
Customer Satisfaction Research: Common Mistakes to Avoid
Customer satisfaction research is an important tool in your market research toolbox. Learn from these customer satisfaction research horror stories to improve your B2B customer satisfaction research strategy.
B2B Buyer Personas: 6 Key Insights to Build an Effective Marketing Strategy
Do your buyer personas lack information to help you create meaningful marketing? Learn how to create a solid marketing backbone with insightful B2B buyer personas.
