A concept testing platform is a necessity for your product development process because it helps your team distinguish between a product idea, and a product idea your customers will love.
The true barometer of success is your customer. Seek their feedback at the beginning of the product development cycle to ensure the product you’re planning to launch is set up for success.
In product development and merchandising, the future success of a product is critically linked to the concept testing stage. Concept testing enables you to validate your market opportunity, inform product design, direction and positioning, and mitigate the risks of future product returns, unsold inventory, and unhappy customers.
Validate your product with concept testers who fit your target market with new data-driven product concept testing on the MESH01 platform.
Enhance your product development process with concept testing best practices. When you take advantage of a product concept testing solution with an integrated product tester community, you can immediately generate critical voice of the customer feedback on product design, positioning, branding and more before you launch your product.
Concept testing best practices using MESH01:
Concept tests are fast and easy to launch, allowing you to test your product concepts even on tight product development timelines. Find the right product direction, right away and invest only in the product concepts with validated opportunity.
The MESH01 concept testing platform gives you the power to launch concept surveys to highly-targeted testers and collect results quickly and easily, all in one place.
Implementing reliable concept testing methods helps teams avoid developing suboptimal products by identifying the right product direction right away. With technology designed specifically for product development, concept testing has become an integral process for pre-market product validation that won’t delay timelines.
Enhance the beginning of your product development process by applying concept testing to assess your product opportunities by measuring your customers’ interest and purchase drivers. This step provides directional validation for your product development from the start.
Download our concept testing checklist to dial in your process and enhance product development.
The main objective of concept testing is to validate that a new product concept has appropriate market demand and is designed to drive customer interest and purchases. New product concept testing confirms that you should move forward with product development and into the product testing phase – and that level of validation is easy to achieve on a concept testing platform.
If you’re using people in your immediate circle to provide feedback on your product concepts, it’s important to consider that they may not be truly representative of your target consumer, and they may not be completely honest with you. This is especially concerning with concept tests that may use smaller sample sizes. Be confident in the feedback you’re receiving, and pressure test your concept with the right people.
With MESH01’s tester community of qualified concept and product testers, you can use deeper lifestyle, purchase behavior and activity participation data to identify those who best represent your target customers and will give you the most valuable feedback. Conversely, putting your products in front of a generic panel for testing can risk the quality and relevance of concept survey feedback.
With a dedicated community of product testers, you get the benefit of:
– Matching tester demographics, bio-attributes, profession, activities, and purchase preferences with your product’s market and intended use.
– Engaging the right testers quickly, so you can test numerous concept directions before committing to product development.
A concept testing platform, like MESH01, provides a significant advantage for your concept testing process by integrating a vast community of relevant and reliable concept testers right into the platform along with all feedback data in a single source of truth. A concept testing platform also streamlines the distribution of voice of the customer feedback across teams, keeping products and operations on track and on time – and ensuring everyone is on the same page.
We’ve broken down the MESH01 concept testing process into 5 steps.
1. Define your concept testing objective
2. Target your sample
3. Gather your concepts
4. Create your survey
5. Launch your concept test
Accessing information beyond simple demographics is essential. To recruit testers efficiently and effectively, you’ll need deep tester information like:
Enhanced Tester Profile Details
Zero-in on critical tester criteria fast by accessing pre-existing survey data showing details like work environment or attire, shopping habits and more.
Product Tester Activity Details
Information about lifestyle, activities, level of participation, and frequency of participation in a certain activity or sport allows you to identify a tester who can provide the most accurate feedback on your product concept.
Tester Ratings and Reliability
Don’t just take the tester’s word for it – access constantly-calculated reliability ratings based on previous testing so you know you’re making the best choice for your concept survey.
Choosing the right testers for your concept survey is an important step. Infuse your product development process with valuable voice of the customer feedback and be confident that you’re launching a market-leading product.
Conduct new product concept testing and go to market with confidence.
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