playing games with your customers: using gamification in concept development

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Playing Games with your Playing Games with your CustomersCustomers

Susan AbbottSusan AbbottAbbott Research +

Consulting

Lesley ParkerLesley ParkerSenior Manager,

Advertiser SegmentsYellow Pages Group

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the context

74% of Canadians have used an online or print

directory in past month1

9.9 million unique online visitors quarterly2

Google search partner

Source: (1) 2006 Canadian Directory Usage Study -  Ad Hoc Research (2) comScore Media Metrix, Q4 2007.  Includes YPG, Trader and LesPAC.

What’s been happening since 1908?

5

… plus more

6

a lot of research

a lot of ideas

Why not try something different?

A customer workshop

Three activities Homework

Re-design basic communication Buy-a-feature game

Statement captures what we already

know

Detail about the challenge

Some of the ideas the internal team

generated to “prime the pump”

Buy-a-featuregame

Pitching idea to the rest of the group – why

we need to buy this feature

Should I contribute my

last $10 or not?

Master list of features to keep track

Key learning

The client experience of this process

At the end of the day, objectives were met

… and priorities were set

Buy-in from the project team goes

up

The presence of the project team is not really a problem

It’s a lot of work

… for both client and researcher

A fire alarm is very disruptive

What else would you

like to know?

Susan AbbottAbbott Research & Consulting

Phone: 416-481-7409E-mail: susan@abbottresearch.comwww.abbottresearch.com

Susan AbbottAbbott Research & Consulting

Phone: 416-481-7409E-mail: susan@abbottresearch.comwww.abbottresearch.com

Lesley ParkerSenior Manager, Advertiser Segments

Phone: 416-412-5655E-mail: Lesley.Parker@ypg.comwww.ypg.com

Lesley ParkerSenior Manager, Advertiser Segments

Phone: 416-412-5655E-mail: Lesley.Parker@ypg.comwww.ypg.com

Monique BrûlotteSenior Manager, Marketing Research

Phone: 514-934-2603E-mail: Monique.Brulotte@ypg.comwww.ypg.com

Monique BrûlotteSenior Manager, Marketing Research

Phone: 514-934-2603E-mail: Monique.Brulotte@ypg.comwww.ypg.com

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