MARKET RESEARCH

Know the market before you bet the budget on it

We conduct deep industry research to map competitor strategies, target audience demographics, and emerging trends — uncovering positioning opportunities, price elasticity insights, and customer pain points.

70%+
of new products and campaigns underperform expectations when launched without research grounding decisions
1
the number of pricing or positioning mistakes that research typically catches before it costs real ad spend to discover the hard way
The problem

Most positioning decisions are guesses dressed up as strategy

Pricing, messaging, and audience targeting decisions often get made based on internal assumptions about the market — what competitors are probably doing, what customers probably want, what a fair price probably looks like. Every one of those assumptions is a place a campaign or launch can quietly go wrong.

The businesses that avoid expensive missteps aren’t the ones with the biggest budgets — they’re the ones that validate assumptions against real data before committing spend, rather than discovering the mistake after the campaign has already run.

What we do

Competitor strategy mapping

Real competitor positioning, pricing, and messaging mapped out, not assumed from a quick glance at their website.

Audience demographic research

Target audience defined with real data — demographics, behavior, and platform presence — not a rough persona guess.

Trend & opportunity analysis

Emerging market trends and underserved positioning gaps identified before they become obvious to everyone else.

Pricing & elasticity insight

Pricing informed by real market data and elasticity signals, not a number picked to feel roughly competitive.

Full scope

What's included in every market research engagement

One clear scope, whether it’s a new launch or repositioning an existing product.

Competitor analysis & benchmarking

Target audience & persona research

Market trend analysis

Pricing & price elasticity research

Customer pain point identification

Positioning & gap analysis

Survey & primary research design

Industry & category sizing

Customer & review sentiment analysis

Opportunity & recommendation report

Go-to-market input

Ongoing market monitoring

What proper market research gives you

Decisions grounded in real data, not internal assumptions.

of major positioning and pricing decisions grounded in real research
0 %
clear, data-backed blueprint delivered to guide launch and growth decisions
0
assumptions treated as facts without checking them against real data
0
guesswork — every recommendation tied to a specific research finding
0
How we do it

Researched, analyzed, delivered

01

Define the questions

We clarify exactly what decisions the research needs to inform, so effort goes toward what actually matters.

02

Gather the data

Competitor, audience, and market data gathered from a mix of tools, public data, and where useful, primary research.

03

Analyze for opportunity

Findings analyzed specifically for positioning gaps, pricing insight, and customer pain points, not just summarized.

04

Deliver the blueprint

A clear, actionable report delivered with specific recommendations, not just raw data dumped without direction.

Tools we use

SEMrush & Similarweb (competitor data) · Survey & primary research tools · Social listening tools · Industry & category databases

Timeline: a standard market research engagement covering competitors, audience, and positioning typically takes 1–2 weeks; research including primary surveys or interviews can take longer depending on response collection time.

Why BetterSell

Research built to answer specific decisions

Question-driven, not generic. We start with the decision the research needs to inform, not a template report.

Real data, not assumptions. Positioning and pricing insight are grounded in actual market and competitor data.

Actionable, not just informative. The deliverable is a blueprint with specific recommendations, not a data dump.

Pain points, not just demographics. We dig into what’s actually frustrating customers, not just who they are on paper.

Research finds the opportunity, product hunting finds the product

Market research maps the landscape and the gaps in it — but if you’re specifically looking for a product to launch into that gap, that’s a more targeted, product-specific research process.

Recent results

What this looks like in practice

Positioning gap, found

Before: A brand was competing directly on price against larger competitors, with margins shrinking as a result.

Diagnosis: No one had mapped what competitors were actually emphasizing in their messaging, so the brand had never noticed an underserved positioning angle.

Fix: Researched competitor messaging and customer pain points, identifying a service-quality gap none of the major competitors were addressing.

Result: The brand repositioned around that gap instead of competing purely on price, improving margins on the following campaign.

Pricing, validated before launch

Before: A company was about to launch a new product at a price point based on internal guesswork about what felt fair.

Diagnosis: No pricing or elasticity research had been done, so the price was essentially a guess dressed up as a decision.

Fix: Researched comparable products and price elasticity signals in the category, then recommended an adjusted price point backed by that data.

Result: The product launched at the research-informed price point rather than the original guess, avoiding a costly repricing after launch.

Audience, redefined

Before: A brand’s ad targeting was based on an assumed customer persona that didn’t match who was actually buying.

Diagnosis: The original persona had been created from internal assumptions years earlier and never validated against real customer data.

Fix: Researched actual customer demographics and behavior, uncovering a meaningfully different audience than the original assumption.

Result: Ad targeting was rebuilt around the research-backed audience, improving campaign relevance and performance.

Let’s ground your next decision in real data

Book a free research consultation and we’ll talk through what questions matter most for your business right now.

Here are some frequently asked questions

What people mostly ask us about market research and what you might wanna know –

Competitor analysis, audience research, trend analysis, and pricing insight, delivered as an actionable blueprint — see the full scope above.

Yes, repositioning, pricing reviews, and audience validation are common uses for existing businesses, not just new launches.

Yes, primary research design is part of the standard scope where it’s useful for the specific questions being answered.

You get a clear, actionable report with specific recommendations, not just raw data without direction.

Yes, pricing and price elasticity research is part of the standard scope.

We use a combination of competitor analysis tools, public data, and review/sentiment analysis to build an accurate picture.

No, that’s a more specific process we call Product Hunting — market research is broader, covering positioning, audience, and pricing for a business or category.

A standard engagement covering competitors, audience, and positioning typically takes 1–2 weeks.

Yes, findings are delivered specifically to be usable for marketing, positioning, and go-to-market decisions.

Yes — book a free research consultation and we’ll talk through what matters most for your business.