Black Pearl Intelligence is designed to empower you and your team to harvest, understand, prioritize and leverage business intelligence on consumer and industry perceptions of your brand, your product, the marketplace and your competitors.

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Background
Black Pearl Intelligence is designed to empower you and your team to harvest,
understand, prioritize and leverage business intelligence on consumer and industry
perceptions of your brand, your product, the marketplace and your competitors.
The breadth of intelligence we gather spans traditional borders. Our advanced
technology uses sophisticated analytic technologies that span the entire digital
landscape. This technology was designed for intelligence agencies, and it is now in
our commercial offering.
The business value of the intelligence we deliver is designed to support strategic
planning, comprehensive marketing and product/service assessment, enabling you to:
1. Assess consumer sentiment and perceptions of your organization in a
dynamic and evolving marketplace. We deliver insights on your brand, your
core products/services, perceived value of your organization, reputation,
image, campaigns and other offerings.
2. Define and deliver high-value market intelligence–used to inform both tactical
actions strategic planning and positioning. We identify trends that can help
guide your marketing and development actions.
3. Enumerate both the attractiveness and weaknesses of your brand and
products/services.
4. Amplify and affirm your core principals and marketing messages, and
reinforce your value proposition.
5. Deliver prioritized insights and actionable recommendations
Using the power of Black Pearl Intelligence’s proprietary software and stratified
analysis, we perform deep consumer perception research – delivering an
assessment of the viability of current and past reputation and brand and product/
service messaging. We identify dis-satisfiers, unmet needs, value perceptions,
service excellence and unleveraged strategic openings across the communications
platform. We will deliver statistically relevant quantitative information, and actionable
qualitative information – all of which can inform and guide decision making.
This information is consumer-centric. It is a foundation for building operational
priorities, rapid communications repositioning and for deciding on new strategies.
Abstract
In the digital world, consumers reveal amazingly candid information about likes and
dislikes, an organization’s reputation, brand preferences and product and service
successes and failures. This is where Black Pearl Intelligence lives!
On the Internet and through Social Networks, consumers openly discuss their
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Black Pearl Intelligence.
The World Wide Web of visitors’ comments is “real time,” unvarnished and highly
dynamic. Sentiments and perceptions shift and change over time driven by “group
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think,” thought leaders, news headlines and events happening across the globe.
These are memorialized digitally for those who have the technology and expertise to
mine them at will. We unleash this power.
Black Pearl Intelligence delivers analysis based on current and past dialog. There is
minimal lag between intelligence gathering and action. This technology empowers
our clients to stay in front of consumer opinions and leverage emerging trends.
It also unleashes the power of predictive modeling so you can earn maximum
efficiency and measureable return on investment.
Action Plan
With the predictive power of Black Pearl Intelligence, We empower
we can ensure you retain a sustainable competitive
advantage. Whenever there is a potentially disruptive our clients to
or favorable event on the global stage, we can arm you
with deep intelligence to leverage the event ahead of the
stay in front of
pack. Black Pearl Intelligence can help you stay in front of consumer opinions
the knowledge curve by conducting consumer research
based on Consumer Generated Media (CGM). and leverage
CGM is becoming increasingly popular, with the massive emerging trends.
proliferation of digital chatter, blogs, message-boards and
rich media social network destinations across the Internet.
These dialog portals are accessible by all demographics. However, the universe of
perceptions is immense and unstructured. It changes rapidly. Black Pearl Intelligence
captures billions of bits of data, performs statistical analysis, and reduces the data
down into actionable market intelligence. Black Pearl Intelligence operates in real
time, with no interviewer or survey bias. Our analysis is delivered in client context,
prioritized to your business objectives. With the proliferation of mobile technology,
consumers can be prone to spontaneous reactions.
It is important to understand the new realm of digital influencers. Black Pearl
Intelligence will track message-board postings, usenets, blogs and more. We then
capture what consumers are saying about the pre-defined subjects. We define
and deliver a database including quantitative metrics to measure and prioritize
sentiments, interest, attitudes and perceptions of consumers in order to understand
national and regional trends.
We then develop sentiment mapping and segmentation relating to traveling
preferences, satisfiers and irritants. We track changes through time. Using Black
Pearl Intelligence’s proprietary analytical tools combined with senior level subject
matter experts, we will produce:
• An aggregated client-friendly study, as well as quarterly pulse reports, to
monitor the effectiveness and the dynamics of consumer sentiment – yielding 3
a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Continuous intelligence and reconnaissance on the effectiveness of existing
and new campaigns.
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Our systems ensure that anecdotes do not become the “foundation for strategy
changes.” Instead, market intelligence derived from a wide cross-section of your
customer and community base is the bedrock upon which your strategy WILL thrive.
Position
A Black Pearl Intelligence baseline study will provide immense value to your
organization via the following:
• Empirical understanding – customer impact in real time.
• Insights and roadmaps to guide strategy and action planning.
• The opportunity to get in front, and stay in front of all formulating perceptions
and issues.
• A first responder strategy – proactive versus reactive!
Black Pearl Intelligence Deliverables
• Tracking Consumer Sentiments – Positive and negative
• Segmentation Based on Mind Share – Not traditional demographics, but
analytics showing segmentation of players.
• Mapping Perceived - Defining consumers’ hot spots
• Decision Trees – From where is the consumer getting information? How does
this information play into ultimate decisions?
• Concept Mapping – What is linked to what, in the mind of the consumer?
You will know: What’s working…what isn’t? Why are people engaged...why aren’t
they? What else they are talking about that affects your plan and your brand? What
can you do about it?
Black Pearl Intelligence (BPI) is a business intelligence firm with over a decade of experience
providing marketing and communications solutions to Fortune 500 clients. Through the
use of proprietary software and analysis, BPI taps into the digital and social stratosphere
to uncover the unvarnished truth about brand threats, perceptions and opportunities. BPI’s
category experts then interpret the data and package it into strategies within the marketing and
communications industry, giving BPI’s clients a sustainable advantage over the competition.
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