Entire marketing mix


A brand is indivisible. This is why mindline supports its customers in all marketing decisions, being product and packaging to price and communication, or brand positioning to customer satisfaction.

Regardless of it being a continuation of your established research standards combined with our proven mindline instruments or developing tailor-made tools that precisely cover your wishes and needs.

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mindline helps to optimally coordinate all elements of marketing. That is what makes brands strong. And satisfies customers.

Full scale toolbox


Don’t use a hammer to turn a screw into a wall. In very the same sense, every question needs specific methods. And every company needs different results to support decisions in the best possible way.

mindline is happy to advise its customers as to the most suitable approach for their respective knowledge goal. And doing this, choose from a wide spectrum of survey and evaluation methods: whether quantitative or qualitative, classic or innovative, online or in a test studio, at the consumer’s home or POS, statistically precise or psychologically valid. Here are a few exciting highlights:

VIPER: The mindline e-store simulation

The VIrtual POS TestER (VIPER) combines the implicit measurement of shopper behaviour with classic diagnostic test procedures such as concept tests.

The user experience of VIPER corresponds to the standard of well-known players – with features such as hit list, watch list, shopping cart, checkout – and can be adapted to customer-specific requirements at any time (e.g. mass market vs. pharmacy).

VIPER can be operated via classic desktops and notebooks as well as via mobile devices.

The realistic shopping environment enables direct competitive benchmarking.

Baseline Studies 2.0 Modular U&A

Thanks to a modular approach, U&A studies can be conducted faster, cheaper and more holistically overall. And easier and shorter for respondents, making them more mobile – in short: better overall!

Flexibility: Maximum interview length of a module of 15 minutes increases the mobile suitability, improves the work flow and thus increases the reliability of the results.

Universality: Conducting interviews on mobile devices increases the accessibility of young target groups without self-selection and simplifies the use of multimedia feedback from the respondents.

Modularity: Central individual modules are Needs & Attitudes, Usage Routines, Brand Penetration, Brand Image, Motivational Map and Shopper Behaviour.

Category Entry Points: The path to growth

Analysis of Category Entry Points (CEPs) and market potentials based on the theories of Prof. Byron Sharp (‘How Brands Grow’).

Qualitative extraction of the central CEPs, quantitative weighting of their market significance and determination of the respective top-of-mind brands.

Strong brands are associated with multiple CEPs – this is proven by years of academic research.

To seize a brand’s appropriate and attainable CEPs increases its penetration and thus secures future growth.

Visual Conjoint: What you see is what you get.

Photorealistic representation of all possible product combinations for conjoint tasks.

Enables analysis of preference effects regarding varied package information as well as design features via conjoint.

Not only higly releavant for packaging, but also for all technical devices or products where design and visuality play an important role.

Realistic simulation of the selection behavior leads to particularly valid conjoint results.

mindline SemioSphere: Images are the key to the soul

Implicit measurement of the emotionality of a brand using visual stimuli. Including all its manifestations of life from communication to packaging.

Intuitive and entertaining assignment tasks for the test persons ensure psychological validity.

Calibration of the images to the six facets of the mindline SemioSphere, the semantic core dimensions of human aspiration and experience.

The output: The emotional profile of a brand in a competitive environment. Or the emotional consistency of an entire brand system.

smoove: Automated market research/ DIY

Thanks to in-house programming expertise at mindline analytics, mindline has its own agile DIY platform: smoove.

smoove offers guided DIY market research in the area of tension between standardisation vs. agility.

smoove ensures efficient processes and time & cost savings through standardised processes and user-friendly questionnaire wizards.

smoove allows customised study content to be integrated at any time by our experienced programmers and thus offers maximum flexibility.

During the entire market research process, an experienced researcher is at your side if needed.

DIY design test with automated shelf set-up

For DIY studies – via smoove – a virtual shelf setup solution can be integrated. This way, KPI results are available within 72h.

Simple set-up: Images of test designs and other shelf products can be uploaded to smoove and labelled as desired.

Editable design: Product images are automatically displayed on a shelf embedded in a shop environment. The product arrangement can be easily adjusted.

Output: Online dashboard incl. export function for native ppt-charts.

Online Ethnography via In-Home Video

Cost-effective option for ethnographic videos within the scope of quantitative surveys.

Unfiltered, direct quotes of the test persons make quantitative results more tangible.

Barrier-free recording of spontaneous opinions without interference from keyboard inputs.

Usable on desktop PCs with webcam as well as for mobile device participation.

Possible integration into ongoing online interviews , optionally also filtered/depending on prior answers.

Tomorrow’s tools …

mindline constantly screens the market for exciting innovations in order to implement promising approaches in established research designs.

You can find a selection of innovative tools that we are currently monitoring and testing under the following link:

Extensive know-how of trades


Context defines meaning. That is why research can only develop its full power if when interpreted in the light of market-specific perception patterns and impact factors. mindline can build on an extensive knowledge base regarding all relevant markets. From food to finance, face cream to forklift trucks, newspapers to cigarettes, from stationary retail to the digital economy.