Trone Research and Consulting

With experience comes opportunity.

We’ve unravelled a lot of challenges over the years. Our team has a proven track record of using research and work experience to achieve business and marketing objectives.

Crafting Product Marketing Messages That Differentiate and Motivate

As part of an initiative to increase its penetration in the market, our animal health client was seeking to optimize its messaging to veterinarians for a companion animal medication.

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Benchmarking Performance on the Marketing Funnel and Drivers of Usage/Loyalty Prior to Initiating a Communications Overhaul

As part of an effort to reinvigorate marketing efforts for a companion animal health product, our client wanted to establish a tracking study with benchmarking research related to awareness, attitudes and usage in the category.

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Brand Resuscitation: Re-Establishing Credibility and Gaining Professional Recommendations

OBJECTIVE: Identify and track key drivers of brand health that impact veterinary recommendations of a product.

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Doug Barton, President & CEO

Doug Barton

President & CEO

Doug is a career research, analytics and brand marketing executive with more than 35 years of experience working with Top 50 market research firms, Fortune 500 companies and marketing firms on client and supplier side.

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He is a leader and advisor with a proven track record of solving business challenges for start-ups as well as small to large businesses across the world. Doug’s industry experience spans across hospitality, telecom, CPG, financial services, insurance, textile and apparel, turf and ornamental, animal health and retail.

Kimberly Ness

Kimberly Ness

SVP, Insights & Marketing

With 25+ years of experience across research, branding and marketing, Kimberly has the unique ability to transform complicated data into a simple strategic plan that achieves results.

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She has led marketing efforts for global and national brands and has a specialty in animal health, working with brands like Zoetis, Boeringer Ingelheim and Mars Petcare. She is known as an industry thought leader and has been a featured speaker at Global Pet Expo, AAHA, CBI, Brakke Consulting and Fetch, a dvm360 conference.

Tom Minsel

Tom Minsel

PhD, Head of Research & Data Science

Tom is our PhD Statistician and master data miner with 25+ years in direct marketing, customer targeting, modeling and research design.

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His areas of expertise include statistics, applied and theoretical measurement, psychological research, survey research, summative and formative evaluation, SAS, sampling, trend analysis and generally all things analytics. Tom oversees more than 65 comprehensive studies each year to help clients better understand their customers.