Market Research Project investigating Customer Support/Ticketing System for Condos

Closed
BoardSpace
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Pat Crosscombe
Founder & CEO
(29)
4
Project
Academic experience
100 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Market research Marketing analytics
Skills
target market issue tracking customer support marketing budgets market size marketing strategies project management software branding market research sales
Details

We are looking to launch a new subscription software service related to this. We already offer board management software to the condo and nonprofit market. We would like to offer ticketing/support services for the condo/HOA market. We need to better understand the potential for this service in our target market and ensure there is a need and demand for it.


This will allow us to determine if we are targeting the right segments to be profitable. We want to ensure we offer benefits and use our marketing budget most effectively.


Tasks:

  • Assess the size of our market with metrics such as sales data and number of competitors, and compare them to the size of our customer base to determine our market share and how many potential customers we could obtain.
  • Analyze our current offerings and the positioning of our brand.
  • Create a survey and interview questions for empirical interviews and conduct the interviews to gain feedback on the potential for this new service.
  • Analyze survey and interview results to create recommendations on improving our positioning, branding and products/services.
Deliverables

By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities (this is basically a retelling of the steps above):

  • Assessed our market size and share to determine the amount of potential customers we have.
  • Analyzed our current offerings and the positioning of our brand.
  • Created survey and interview questions to gain feedback on our brand, products, and services.
  • Analyzed the survey and interview results to create recommendations for next steps.

Bonus steps would include:

  • Researched the most effective marketing strategies for our segments to include in the report and recommendations.

Final deliverables should include

  • A report including research, survey data trends, and recommendations for next steps for our branding and positioning.
  • Final presentatio


Mentorship

Students will connect directly with us for mentorship throughout the project. We will be able to provide answers to questions such as:

  • Who is our target market?
  • Are we happy with our current positioning and marketing strategies for that segment?
  • Which of our products and services are most popular?
  • Input on choices, problems or anything else the students might encounter.

About the company

Company
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Technology, It & computing

BoardSpace is an online portal for the volunteer directors and administrators of condos, HOAs, non-profits and charities. BoardSpace overcomes the daunting task of looking after hundreds of documents, attending lots of meetings, preparing agendas, approving minutes and keeping on top of to-lists by providing boards with the tools to get their work done more efficiently and in less time.

Pat Crosscombe founded BoardSpace due to her experience on a condo board. BoardSpace is on a mission to organize the boards of directors of the world and was built by a team that understands the needs of condo and non-profit boards.