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B J E C T I V E |
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Carfax.com was about to take what had been primarily a B2B service
and open it to consumers. It wanted to gauge the concern its used
car dealers might have at such a move and it wanted to use the opportunity
to see what kinds of answers dealers gave to a series of questions
about the benefits of Carfax service. |
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E X E C U T I O N |
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conducted Spycam interviews in three markets among a dozen or more
dealers in each market. The tape was edited into a series of learning
tapes about the state of the used car market, the role that a service
like Carfax might play and the reactions to the possibility that Carfax
would become a consumer service. |
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R E S U L T |
| Carfax
management was able to comfortably make decisions to expand the service
and its agency, Martin, was able to use the learning to educate the
creative team in preparation for the creation of the advertising. |