Supervised Customer Voice + Market Intelligence Research
Research Sprints · A program of the eMarketing Foundation

Find YOUR Business Blind Spots! Our Intelligence Method is Guaranteed! » or We Refund Our Fee.

Your customers, prospects, and lapsed buyers may already know what your business needs to fix. The eMarketing Foundation helps you hear it, interpret it, and turn it into a decision-ready growth plan.

Research Sprints powered by ReadingMinds.ai voice interviews. SEO and GEO research powered by Visible1 and additional tools. All research is conducted by supervised MBA and master’s-level research teams. Reviewed by senior executives and experienced professionals.

Now accepting up to twelve new research projects per month
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From the founder

Research Is Not What Slows Growth Down. Guessing Does.

Most businesses do not make expensive mistakes because they are careless. They make them because the market, the customer journey, and the competitive landscape are giving signals they have not captured yet.

Read the short script+

I used to think research was a nice-to-have. I was wrong.

After launching more than 10 businesses myself, and helping clients launch more than 100 businesses, products, and campaigns through Didit, I saw the real pattern. The expensive mistakes usually came from hidden assumptions: why customers buy, why prospects hesitate, why lapsed customers leave, which competitors matter, and how the business appears in search, AI, and the buying journey.

Research is not what slows growth down. Guessing does.

That is why the eMarketing Foundation created this program. Supervised MBA and master’s-level teams, guided by senior executives, use ReadingMinds.ai and structured research to uncover decision-ready insights for your business.

We accept up to twelve new projects per month, and accepted projects are backed by our Decision-Ready Value Guarantee. What might it be costing you to keep guessing? Apply for a research slot and let’s see whether your project is a fit.

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The real problem

The Most Expensive Marketing Mistakes Usually Start as Unquestioned Assumptions

Businesses often guess what customers care about, why prospects do not convert, which competitors matter, why lapsed customers leave, and how the business appears in Google, AI, and the broader market.

This program is designed to replace those assumptions with customer voice, market intelligence, visibility analysis, and practical recommendations.

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The mechanism

A Faster, More Affordable Way to Hear the Market

Traditional research can be slow and expensive. DIY surveys can be shallow and misleading. Our model gives you a third option: ReadingMinds-powered voice interviews, supervised research teams, and senior executive interpretation.

ReadingMinds helps capture customer, prospect, or lapsed-buyer input at scale. The eMarketing Foundation team turns that input into themes, implications, recommendations, and a decision-ready action plan.

“The platform helps us listen faster. The supervised process turns what we hear into strategy.”

The team model

Not a Student Project. A Supervised Research Engagement.

The research is conducted through applied teams of MBA and master’s-level students under the supervision of senior executives and experienced professionals.

The students bring analytical capacity, curiosity, and structured research support. Senior leaders help guide the scope, challenge assumptions, interpret the findings, and shape the final recommendations.

This allows your business to receive meaningful research while supporting the eMarketing Foundation’s educational and workforce-development mission.

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The process

How the Research Sprint Works

01

Define the Question

We clarify the business decision, audience, assumptions, and research scope.

02

Listen to the Market

We use ReadingMinds-powered customer voice research, plus market and competitor analysis where included.

03

Interpret the Blind Spots

The team identifies buying triggers, objections, positioning gaps, visibility gaps, and missed opportunities.

04

Deliver the Roadmap

You receive a decision-ready report with findings, implications, and prioritized recommendations.

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Research sprints

Choose the Research Sprint That Fits the Decision You Need to Make

Each project is reviewed before acceptance. Final scope depends on business question, audience access, interview volume, recruiting needs, complexity, and current team capacity.

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Customer Voice Research Sprint

$12,000
Founding cohort: $9,500

Best for: businesses that want to understand why customers buy, hesitate, leave, or choose someone else.

  • ReadingMinds-powered customer voice research
  • One primary audience segment
  • Up to 100–200 completed voice interviews
  • Buying-trigger, hesitation & objection mapping
  • Lapsed-customer & product/service shortcoming analysis
  • Executive report & prioritized recommendations
  • Senior executive supervision & applied research support
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Custom Research + Customer Voice Intelligence

$19,000
Founding cohort: $17,500

Best for: businesses that want customer voice plus broader market, competitor, positioning, and growth-opportunity intelligence.

  • Everything in Customer Voice Research Sprint
  • Market landscape research
  • Competitor analysis & competitive set discovery
  • Positioning review & messaging gap analysis
  • Review & sentiment mining
  • Channel opportunity review
  • Strategic opportunity map & prioritized growth roadmap
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Recommended
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Visibility + Customer Voice Intelligence

$37,500
Founding cohort: $30,000

Best for: businesses that want to understand both what customers say and what Google, AI, and the broader market see.

  • Everything in Custom Research + Customer Voice
  • SEO visibility review
  • GEO / AI visibility analysis
  • Brand/entity & AI-answer presence review
  • Competitor visibility comparison
  • Content gap & citation/source opportunity review
  • Prioritized SEO/GEO action roadmap
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Most Complete
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Full Blind Spot Intelligence Sprint

Starting at $60,000
Founding cohort: starting at $50,000

Best for: businesses that want the full picture — customer truth, market intelligence, SEO/GEO visibility, and the real buying experience.

  • Everything in Visibility + Customer Voice
  • Secret shopper scenario design
  • Phone, form, chat, email, booking & in-person journey testing
  • Response-time tracking
  • Sales / customer-experience friction analysis
  • Optional competitor secret shopping
  • Integrated cross-channel recommendations
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Visibility intelligence

What Customers Say and What Search/AI Sees May Not Match What You Believe

The Visibility Intelligence layer looks at how your business appears in Google, AI answers, content ecosystems, and competitor visibility.

The goal is not just to identify rankings. The goal is to understand how the market, search engines, and AI-driven discovery systems interpret your business — and what you should do next.

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Customer experience

See What Prospects Actually Experience

Customer voice tells you what people say. Secret shopper research shows what prospects actually experience when they call, click, inquire, book, or buy.

The Full Blind Spot Intelligence Sprint can include customer journey testing, response-time tracking, screenshots, timestamps, friction analysis, and lost-conversion opportunities.

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Decision-Ready Value Guarantee
The guarantee

Useful Insight or Your Professional Fee Back

If your completed report does not provide meaningful, decision-ready insight based on the agreed research scope, notify us in writing within 7 days of delivery and identify the specific areas where the work fell short.

We will revise the work at no additional professional-fee cost. If we still cannot make it valuable, we will refund the professional-fee portion of your program fee.

Conditions

To qualify, clients must complete onboarding, provide requested business context, approve the research scope, supply or approve access to the agreed audience or recruitment method, and participate in the final review process.

Carveouts

Platform fees, respondent incentives, panel costs, list acquisition, required purchases, travel, third-party data, and other out-of-pocket expenses are not refundable once incurred.

Outcome Disclaimer

We do not guarantee specific revenue growth, rankings, conversion lift, customer behavior, AI visibility, or market outcomes. We guarantee the usefulness and decision-readiness of the research deliverable within the agreed scope.

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Operational scarcity

Why We Accept Only a Limited Number of Projects

This is not a template report or automated audit. Each engagement requires research design, ReadingMinds setup, audience planning, senior supervision, applied research-team support, analysis, and recommendations.

To protect quality, we currently accept up to twelve new research projects per month.

We review each project before acceptance because the guarantee only works when there is a real business question, a reachable audience or approved research path, and enough context for our team to produce useful recommendations.

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Questions

Frequently Asked

Is this a donation?+

No. This is a program fee for a research engagement. Your participation supports the eMarketing Foundation’s educational mission, but you should not treat the fee as a charitable contribution unless confirmed by your tax advisor.

Is the work done by students?+

The work is conducted through supervised applied research teams that may include MBA and master’s-level students. Senior executives and experienced professionals supervise the process, review the findings, and help ensure the final report is practical and decision-ready.

Why use ReadingMinds.ai?+

ReadingMinds-powered voice interviews help capture more nuance than a simple survey. The platform helps collect customer input efficiently, while the Foundation team interprets the findings and turns them into recommendations.

Are you guaranteeing revenue growth?+

No. We do not guarantee revenue, rankings, conversion lift, customer behavior, or market outcomes. We guarantee that the completed research deliverable will provide meaningful, decision-ready insight based on the agreed scope.

Why do I need to apply?+

Each project requires senior supervision, research team capacity, research design, and audience access. We review projects before accepting them to protect quality and ensure the engagement is likely to create value.

What Might It Be Costing You to Keep Guessing?

Would it be unreasonable to spend a few minutes seeing whether your business is a fit for one of this month’s research slots?

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