• When and why should I engage with Silicon Valley Research Group?
• What will I need to do?
• How do I know what to ask?
• How much can I expect to spend?
• Why should I choose Silicon Valley Research Group over other companies?
• How long will my project take?
• What is my role in the project?
• What can I expect from Silicon Valley Research Group?
• How can Silicon Valley Research Group assist in implementing the findings?
• What should I do to maximize ROI from my project?
• What if I am not based near Silicon Valley Research Group office locations?
• What if my market is global?
• How will I determine the scope and scale of my project?
• What else should I know about Silicon Valley Research Group and its activities?
• Do you have resources such as whitepapers or reports available to help us learn more?

If you have additional questions, please contact us at info@siliconvalleyrg.com

When launching a new product.

Silicon Valley Research Group Inc. will provide you with the process, means and analysis to capture the Voice of the Customer™. Using VOC™, we will help you guide product development in a manner that ensures your final product will meet customer needs, positioning your product to be a market success.

Whether you are investing in traditional or non-traditional media, you need validation of the creative execution. Silicon Valley Research Group has proven processes to validate messages and to copy creative elements of execution. Remember, marketing is both a science and an art. We will help you understand whether or not your message will reverberate with your customer base and if it will drive purchase behavior.

When you need clarity on how to target and segment your market for a technology product.

Using both quantitative and qualitative data gathering processes as well as sophisticated techniques for market analysis, and providing you with the basics of segmentation, we will ensure that you are focusing on the most important target markets for your product or service. We know that when you have an effective message and maximize your marketing dollar, you also increase your ROI.

When you have a technology product or service that you sell through third party channels. You want to measure its performance, and also ensure that you’ve maximized performance of this channel.

Silicon Valley Research Group has processes to both assess channel performance and to create channel drivers and motivators that maximize performance.

When you are interested in equipping your sales force with the best market intelligence and tools to win against competition in the marketplace.

As Sun Tzu stated in the Art of War, "every battle is won before it is ever fought." The Silicon Valley Research Group Frontline™ series uses processes such as Objecions Mapping to help your sales force preemptively understand the hidden objectives of the customers and how to overcome them. Sales people equipped with battle cards are more able to succeed in sales and customer retention.

When your product has been launched and your sales are lagging despite marketing activity in support of the product launch.

We will apply our processes to ensure that marketing spending is optimized through analysis of strategy and adding more effective vehicles to your marketing mix.

When you are interested in creating an ongoing process for tracking metrics such as customer satisfaction, perceptions of your product or perceptions of your competitors.

Silicon Valley Research Group, through its innovative and proprietary e361™ offering, will provide processes for collecting data, as well as a vehicle for disseminating it through your organization via digital dashboards and portals. For more information, please request a datasheet on e361™.

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Please contact Silicon Valley Research Group Inc. to speak with one of our Senior Analysts. Our Senior Analysts have strong technical backgrounds, and will be able to work with you while you articulate the problem you are facing.

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We will provide you with many tools during initial discussions/brainstorming sessions. We will ask questions that will trigger and help refine your way of thinking regarding the needs and shape of the market investigation.

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The costing of our custom research services varies, depending on the scope and timing of each project. We will strive to provide you with the most cost-effective solution possible, while maintaining the high quality of its analysis. Please contact us for an estimate.

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Silicon Valley Research Group is a technology-focused market research firm. Since our inception more than 10 years ago, every project undertaken has related to technology. Silicon Valley Research Group is both eminently qualified and unusual, as it devotes all of its attention to the technology sector. This has given us a unique competitive advantage over any competition, as we have been able to provide focused, knowledgeable technical insight to our clients.

We feel that projects are most successful when:

• The fit between your organization and Silicon Valley Research Group is strong and we are in a position to help you
• We can ensure the time commitments necessary in order to execute on your project

In addition, the following distinctions set our company apart:

The depth of experience of our staff
Because of our focus on technology, we have an analyst team with extremely high credentials in this space. Our senior analyst team is comprised of individuals with extensive backgrounds within technology practice areas.

Our leading-edge processes
Silicon Valley Research Group has been a pioneer in the use of data collection techniques and project execution techniques that maximize client budget and minimize execution time. Through these processes, we are able to provide you with a high quality project output, with few distractions and the most efficient use of your budget.

Our global approach
With partners in strategic alliances across 23 different countries, we have the capability to execute in many languages and cultures. Given the global landscape of the technology sector, Silicon Valley Research Group. can provide you not only with a U.S.-based view of your marketplace, but also with a much broader spectrum.

Silicon Valley Research Group output
Our strategic outputs are unique and highly valued in the technology industry. we are committed to providing clients not only with robust data, but also with in-depth analysis of that data and its implications to your business. Providing this analysis requires a deep understanding of both your technology marketplace and your business objectives. Our analysts invest a great deal of time in learning about you and your business so that we can provide this understanding. As one of our clients said when they first approached Silicon Valley Research Group, “We are drowning in data”. we understand that data is valueless without context, meaning, and strategic implications. We have developed our business and processes around providing clients with actionable recommendations and strategies.

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As an Silicon Valley Research Group client your role is to provide us with strategic input for your project. Also, where necessary, help us engage with the appropriate personnel who will lead us to the resources necessary to gather insightful information for completion. Our staff will minimize your time involvement by taking as much of the responsibility from you as possible, and by providing you with seamless and successful project execution. 

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We will provide you with answers to your marketplace-related questions, but always goes further. We provide you with strategic analysis, recommendations, and deeper discussions related to the project’s implications for your business.

Silicon Valley Research Group’s final report have two parts:

1. An in-depth PowerPoint-based report providing you with critical analysis in order for you to understand the output
2. A one-minute Executive Brief to be shared with upper management

In addition, we deliver a final presentation, in a workshop format, to a group of stakeholders of your choosing.

The workshop process enables us to not only present the data, but also to interact and engage our senior analyst team with your stakeholders so that maximum value may be obtained from the investment that you made in this project. Upon your request, we can also provide subsequent presentations and workshops, including an executive briefing, and additional presentations of the workshop and data.

You may also expect the following from Silicon Valley Research Group:

• On-time and on-budget completion of projects
• Timely project status updates through our Frontline portal space on Microsoft SharePoint
• Analysis of both key and secondary objectives
• During the course of our data collection, any hot sales leads will be immediately passed onto the key stakeholder for potential follow-up

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Silicon Valley Research Group’s final reports provide strategic guidance and recommendations for implementation. Upon request and for an additional fee, we can provide assistance in implementing findings through ongoing workshops and check-in processes. Our technology clients have particularly taken advantage of such services during the incubation and pre-IPO stages (for more information, please contact Silicon Valley Research Group Inc. at info@siliconvalleyrg.com).

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Silicon Valley Research Group strives to maximize strategic value and ROI, and minimize waste, on every project we undertake.

1. Be prepared to align results with objectives. We will provide stakeholders internally with a clear view on project objectives so that they are in alignment, and are ready to implement the findings as we present them. This is a critical aspect of maximizing returns, and through our experience we are able to provide the guidance and assistance to ensure this.
2. Ensure that all stakeholders are available for project milestone reviews, and for the final presentation as appropriate. The success of your project will depend on the internal stakeholders’ allegiance. Silicon Valley Research Group assistance is valuable here, as our online portals facilitate your ability to bring other internal stakeholders up to speed on the project and its execution elements.
3. Be focused on implementation. Too often actual strategies and recommendations are not implemented because of a lack of focus and/or motivation in order to act on these items, even though they may make a critical difference to your business.

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The Silicon Valley Research Group client base is global, and we are able to service clients in locations throughout the U.S. and internationally.

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Silicon Valley Research Group fully expects that the technology client has a global view of its marketplace.

Over the years we have conducted many international studies, and have an understanding of how to get your products placed globally.

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The Silicon Valley Research Group team will work with you to determine what is achievable within the scope of your budget, and will also work with you whenever you need guidance in evaluating these projects.

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Yes. Please visit the Silicon Valley Research Group Knowledge Center in order to view our library of whitepapers and Executive Briefings that are available to the public.

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