Research Services

Research Consultancy and Specialist Services

Clients use our custom-designed research for a wide range of business opportunities and policy issues. From market opportunity research and analysis to customer journey research – and everything in between. Susan Bell Research can provide the insights you need. We know exactly what research methods and techniques to use for each individual client.


“I have always found Susan Bell to be unquestionably professional in her approach to the research assignment, sensitive to associated business information and the often confidential research themes that resulted.


Our main research consultancy practice is for businesses and government. We have breadth and depth of research experience in superannuation and insurance, investment, business to business research and consumer research on topics such as financial advice, investor journeys, food and drink, personal care and luxury. We also offer two complementary specialty services: research with older Australians and a specialist message and content testing service.

Our Consultancy Practice

Our typical consultancy clients are marketing and communications professionals in small, medium or large organisations. We have experience in:

  • Branding development
  • Concept development and testing
  • Communications development and testing
  • Cultural context analysis such as semiotics
  • Customer journeys, information journeys and sense-making
  • Motivations and needs analysis and segmentation
  • Sensory qualitative research and co-creation
  • Stakeholder and customer surveys
  • Usage, behaviour and attitude studies
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Understanding your older customers

Additional Speciality: The New Lives Of Older Australians

  • Building on our broad consultancy practice experience we have also developed extensive expertise in research with the older market.
  • Older Australians today are very different from those of the past. They see themselves differently from earlier generations and want more out of life at this age. They are also different from each other in significant ways – and are themselves changing as they age.
  • That is why we custom-design all our research for this age group.
  • Take advantage of our knowledge of this age group for your research on: brand image and rebranding; concept and product development; communications testing; customer experiences and journeys; strategy and policy development.
  • We have decades of experience in financial services research, and are also highly experienced in research about food and drink, personal care and household care.

Additional Specialty: Message and Content Testing

Organisations such as insurance companies, superannuation funds and government agencies come to us to help them simplify their written content and make sure that it is engaging for their target market. We have helped to clarify and improve

  • emails / EDMs
  • landing pages
  • letters including IDR and redemption letters
  • brochures
  • PDSs

We are knowledgeable about language, we understand marketing, and we conduct highly professional and impartial research. We use a mix of highlighter tests, user interviews and surveys for this work.

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