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The inspiring needs research deep into the hearts and minds of your customer 
- where buying decisions are made.


FREE. Experience it with Michael. 45 min. Tailored to your category and brand.
 

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Never just theory. Results. Always.


This is the best research I have seen.
And the results speak for themselves.

Launa Inman, CEO, Target, 6% category sales increase in eight weeks

 


It showed us our donors' real needs - some of which we had never guessed. We found that we could fulfil them much better quite easily. Doing so increased conversion rapidly by up to 53% and teams achieved cancellation reductions of up to 1/3.
Marcus Frost. Global CMO, World Vision

 

Robust, deep-psychology that's practical and unboring.

Our training workshop experience: Practical. Fun. Gamified.


Empowering & Inspiring your teams: Example:
DonorDrivers, The Donor NeedsInSight Model that's our community commitment globally.

 

A-W Category Experience Examples. Feel free to discuss:
Aged Care   Airlines  Arts & Culture   Automotive   Baking   Beer  Banking   Canned Fruit& Vegetables   Charities/NGO  Cheese  Construction  Consumer Electronics   Credit Cards   Dairy Products  Employee Engagement   Energy   Entertainment   Fast Food   Fish Consumption   Franchising   Fruit Juice   Gov Health Behaviour Change   Health Insurance   Health Services   Intermediaries  Internet  Investment IT  Life Insurance   Live Events   Logistics   Mortgages   Pain Killers   Paint  Pet Food   Professional Services  Real Estate  Retail  Soft Drinks   Software   Sports Participation   Spreads   Superannuation   Supplements   Sustainability   Telecommunications   White Goods   Wine  

"Their needs are not singular. They have a number of dominant needs in our category - and want to fulfil them together."

Tired of dry insights your teams never use again?
Your team will serve irresistible value burgers in no time.


​The 'Irresistible Value Burger' analogy really resonated with me. I can see my friends and family in it.

Their needs are not singular. They have a number of dominant needs in our category - and want to fulfil them together.

We need to know them, layer them - and fulfil them in one execution or, like a deconstructed burger, over the journey.

Campaign Manager, USA

 

All your category needs and motivations from your customer's perspective.
The 5% conscious and 95% unconscious.

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Donor
 


Updated since 2003. Globally validated. Ready-made for your use.
 


copyright and trademark of Stefan Grafe/mext
 

Any category.
Know which combination is decisive to decide for you.
Your driver needs.

 

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Donor
 


Brand specific
 

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Predictive Impact Modelling that's proven in practice.
 

Know how to fulfil your customer's driver needs better - for their benefit and yours.
 


Example: Cancer Research
 

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Effective. Affordable.


Immediate implementation. Results fast. Sustainable.
 


Free Training & Demo
 


​45 minutes

Understand NeedsInSight in your category

We share  what we know

Know how to benefit NeedsInSight

 


FREE
 


2-hour Team Training
 

Understand NeedsInSight for your category

Explore your current work

Co-create first solutions

 


€ 3,000   USD 3,000   AUD $ 4,500


Your Custom Category  Model
 

Get your full needs and driver map.

Know the current and emerging hot-buttons

Understand the customer types
(personas/segments)

Know what action to take.

12x 90-min in depth interview. 4x group. Full quantification.  

 


€ 29,000   USD 29,000   AUD $ 44,000


Donor NeedsInSight
Our community committment

 

The Four Faces of Giving & their 27 Needs

Ready-made & Globally validated

Get the training

Get your brand quantification. Know your supporter's  specific needs to fulfil.

 


Training:
 2,000   USD 2,000   AUD $ 3,000

Full quantitative driver study

€ 7,500  US$ 7,500  AUD 12,000


FREE. Experience it with Michael. 45 min. Tailored to your category and brand.
 

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Track your fulfilment progress in line with commercial results.


animate with ai first all importance. then fulfilment one after aother
 

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Importance
Fulfilment

Be prepared to be surprised.

Your dramatic category psycho:logic captured systematically and simply.
Conscious versus unconscious. Tensions and contradictions. Intrinsic, extrinsic. Rational versus emotional. Weighing up and landing. Category conflict. Artfully integrating categories for family and friends. The admittable and the not so. Self-lies, comfortable and uncomfortable truths. 


When I go shopping, I use my velvety pink card and for bills my grey one.
Respondent Australia.

 


Mmmmmh. Now that I had time here, it's actually very different. But I find it hard to admit it - even to myself.
Respondent Australia.

 

I am very disciplined with food. But my wife isn't. She always orders these huge muffins she can never finish - and then I have to.
Respondent USA when insisting how disciplined he is with food - just for his wife to give him the perfect excuse.

 

I already have so many obligations to fulfil and give and give. If anyone wants anything else, thers' got to be something in it for me. Even if it's a talking point at the pub.
Donor interview, Germany. Altruism does not exist.

 


Before, we only knew parts of the landscape. Now we know the entire playing field and the moves to make.
CMO, Germany.

 

I thought it'll be just another theoretical framework I can't use.  At first I had my camera off and did other stuff.

But,... I love it. I can write to that. It's amazing what impact a few word changes had and how well we can fulfil key needs, but simply didn't know about them.

Copywriter, Canada

 


This is great. We can really see the needs at work in the 5 needs personas.
Head of Strategy & Communications, Australia

 

We, at mext studio, developed NeedsInSight, because no one could give us a usable map of the mind of the customer in the different categories we work in.

 

We have developed and updated category needs models for over 30 years and worked with clients ranging from AXA to World Vision across 40 countries from Australia to Zimbabwe.

We always work scientifically robust, because we found in our implementation work, that if the psychology and algorithms are robust, clients get the results they want - and often more. 

Melbourne
Australia

Stefan Grafe

mobile/whatsapp +61 400575410

Düsseldorf

Germany

Michael Grunwald

mobile/whatsapp +49 1786361468

Say hello

 

Michael (Lead psychologist)

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