Month of May, 2008

Since my days of running my own PR and Marketing Consultancy, VasMark Group, Inc., I have valued market surveys as a marketing tactic. VasMark was acquired by UtiliPoint of course and was transformed into the Trading & Risk Management practice now headed by Patrick Reames. But surveys I still believe in.

Market surveys, if properly set up, can provide a wealth of information for your firm. A survey can actually generate sales leads, improve our brand awareness, help you gain knowledge about the competition, the market and buying criteria. They are an underused tactic in marketing from my perspective.

How To Set Up A Market Survey
A market survey has to be thoroughly thought through to be effective. It can't be too long and yet it needs to ask the right questions. Often, those dong a market survey miss the chance to truly add value by not asking the right questions or framing the questions wrongly i.e. they are open to interpretation on the part of the respondent.

As crude oil prices have rocketed dragging up the cost of everything including gasoline, there have been many complaints but no real evidence of a consumer demand eduction in the US - until now!

Mastercard Advisors reports that gasoline sales are down 1% over last year and motorists pumped an average of 9.091 million barrels per day in the week that ended May 9th. That was down 7 percent from the year-ago level. Meanwhile weekly gasoline demand dipped 0.6 percent from the previous week.

Meanwhile the API has announced similar figures. Deliveries of gasoline, a gauge of demand at the pump, fell 1.9% in April from the same month a year ago, the American Petroleum Institute said in a monthly report. It was the biggest decline since December 2000. Gasoline demand was down 0.7% in the first four months of the year compared with the same period in 2005, it said.

But.... are US drivers already adjusting their budgets for higher priced gasoline? The Energy Information Administration reported that the four-week average gasoline demand was up 0.2% last week from the same period a year ago, after falling the previous week.

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