Background

You are our how.

ONE thing remains constant—YOU. Purpose, story, and success are the backbone of our commitment to exceed expectations.

WE UNDERSTAND

Dice Media Group combines data-driven research with human observation to understand how people truly interact with brands. Insights help us build loyalty and lasting relationships that drive sustainable growth, saving you TIME AND MONEY.

 

Our methods include

Emotional Mapping

Emotional Mapping is a research technique that uncovers the emotional benefits of a brand and ties into how consumers/users feel about they are engaging with it. Understanding behavior is paramount.

Marketing Personas

Marketing personas help define how to market to people in a target audience as well as reach people on a deeper level and deliver on target and effective messaging.

User Experience (UX) Research

User experience research focuses on understanding a product and the context using it. Identify patterns and behaviors that strengthen a user's experience.

Interviews

Interviews with stakeholders, customers, or employees provide direct, nuanced feedback that reveals motivations, opinions, and brand loyalty drivers.

Workshops & Focus Groups

Workshops drive insights, opinions, attitudes, and sentiments that we used to help make more informed plans and decisions about your brand.

Product Concept Gen & Testing

This can allow us to validate design and marketing strategies early on and help save time and resources by moving forward with smarter and more refined concepts.

Surveys

Quantitative, on-line, and phone surveys in various formats allow us to gather sizeable insights from our target markets.

Social Media Research

We gather both historical and real-time data to inform your strategy about the topics associated with your product or brand.

Blog Data Research

Blog data research helps identify trending topics, influential voices, and emerging patterns in your industry, guiding content creation, improving visibility, and informing your marketing decisions.

 

With the right information comes the right strategy

Qualitative data and insights we gather at Dice Media Group help you organize, humanize, and refine findings to develop strategies that not only align with your business goals, but produce results that save you time and money.

Consumer insights that influence our strategy generation

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Process: How We Turn Insights Into Results

We want our creative work to help you, your brand, and your business, attain a connection to your stakeholders, build brand awareness, embolden your brand messaging and its reach, and develop and reinforce brand loyalty. Dice Media Group, uses our creative team uses an in-depth, 8 step process that allows for new discoveries, idea generation, and problem solving, and ensures that we all meet our goals.

We call this: 8 Steps To Attainment

Infographic with overlaid colored circles representing 8 steps to attainment
1

Research and Discovery

Through internal stakeholder workshops, we assess the challenges, develop a competitive analysis, and complete a consumer discovery. Then, using ethnography, personal interviews, charettes, focus groups, surveys, consensus building and additional investigation, we begin to unlock the untold stories that translate into the foundation of a brand's success.

2

Strategic Ideation

We take a deep dive into data collection and build customer personas, emotional maps and behavior models that translate into authentic, sustainable, economical, and emotional points of connection. We then align these points to create our brand strategy.

3

Brand Architecture

In collaboration and buy-in from all stakeholder groups, actionable insights established in steps 1 & 2 are translated into marketing opportunities, positioning strategies and a cohesive brand architecture, or structure that supports the brand's value proposition. Here we will establish the mission, vision, values, persona, essence, positioning statements and taglines.

4

Story Development

By knitting together the strategic positioning, brand architecture, essence, positioning, and differentiating characteristics of your brand, we reveal memorable brand stories that connect to every touchpoint and channel where your brand intersects with each audience.

5

Stakeholder Alignment & Analysis

Utilizing appropriate communications and evaluation methodologies, we connect with internal and external, and present and past brand communities, potential customers, and all relevant stakeholders to test, survey, confirm and reaffirm the brand strategy. If it's needed, we revise the strategy and then engage all channels and communities to share brand stories and begin to build brand equity.

6

Execution, Deliverable Analysis & Testing

Through omni-channels and tactics selected to connect brand to audience, the launch is executed. From brand ID, web, apps, and social media, to packaging, digital marketing, content generation, and video— there are countless channels to market within, test, analyze, and refine and relaunch if needed.

7

Deliverable Confirmation & Marketing Plans

Deliverables are prepared and presented to all stakeholder groups to obtain further insight and final buy-in. Utilizing the user experience research and data from step 6, we identify the optimal channels for each market segment, fine tune the execution and develop a strategic marketing plan to attain future success.

8

Implementation & Attainment Analysis

Following the execution and deliverable confirmation, tracking and a full-scale analysis of the results follows, to determine if we've attained success. If needed, improvement tactics to increase reach are implemented, and final attainment for future viability is established.