REALeResearch

New site coming soon...

...in the meantime, REALeResearch provides the same quality Qualitative and Usability Research provided to companies for over 20 years!

Please contact Susan Reale directly, at:  susan@realeresearch.com   |   (510) 832-6484

 

SERVICES:

REALeResearch offers custom, qualitative and usability research services - designed specifically for your research needs:

  • Expert Level Focus Group Moderation
  • Individual In-Depth Interviewing
  • In-Depth Telephone Interviewing
  • Usability Test Interviewing (for both Web-based and products)
  • "Expert" Heuristic Web site/software analysis

BIO:

Susan Reale, founder of REALeResearch, has conducted thousands of successful research programs for clients from a multitude of industries - from smaller startups to Global Fortune 500 companies...

  • Career in marketing research began in 1985 as the Business Project Director at Fleischman Field Research for B2B, high0tech and medical studies. Gained extensive experience moderating in-depth interviews with C-Level executives and medical professionals.
  • Research/Field Director for DDMH Worldwide, a marketing research firm in San Francisco. Responsible for all field aspects and development of qualitative research reports for consumer research, product packaging, etc., for consumer product companies such as Unilverver, Chesebrough-Ponds, Levi Strauss, Elizabeth Arden, etc.
  • In the late 1990's Susan began focusing on product and Web usability. She helped create the user experience group (UEG) at Socratic Technologies, an interactive marketing research firm based in San Francisco, when "UI Testing Research" was an emerging methodology. She pioneered in developing early UI practices by applying a hybrid of qualitative and usability research methods.
  • Assisted in the early development of a proprietary, portable Usability Lab, used to test Web sites in worldwide markets.
  • International Experience: has conducted many focus groups and usability research for Fortune 500 companies such as, Nokia, Cisco, IBM, in multiple countries worldwide, including Japan, China, Germany, UK, Italy, Holland, and Singapore.

CLIENTS / INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:

Susan Reale and REALeResearch proudly boast over 20 years of satisfied, repeat clients:

 

FINANCIAL:
Axa (International)
Bank of America
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.
Wells Fargo Bank
Wells Fargo Investments

Toyota Financial Services

AUTOMOTIVE:
Toyota
Lexus
Scion

General Motors
Nissan

 COMMUNICATIONS:
Nokia (International)
Sprint

MEDIA / ADVERTISING:
Accenture
Avenue A / Razorfish

Cox Communications (CXRI)
Wilkinson Design

TECHNOLOGY:
ADP
Cisco Systems (International)
Dell Computers
Hewlett Packard / Compaq
IBM (International)
Ingram Micro
Intraware
Philips

GOVERNMENT / EDUCATION / NON-PROFIT:
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
San José State University Library
San José Public Library
SPIE (Int'l Society for Optical Engineering) 

 

 RETAIL / CONSUMER PRODUCTS:
Gap Inc.
(Banana Republic, Gap, Old Navy)
InFocus
Intuit
Kensington Technology Group
Leap Frog
PhotoWorks San Francisco

Raley’s Grocery Stores

      Safeway.com / Groceryworks
Schlage Lock

      Snapfish

MARKET RESEARCH AGENCIES:
China East Marketing Research Institute
Hallberg Associates, Inc.
Intage (Japan)
Socratic Technologies
Edna Luther & Associates

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