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Marketing information firm J.D. Power and Associates (best known for its car ratings) awards badges of excellence in dozens of categories based on yearly customer satisfaction surveys. J.D. Power and Associates, Inc. studies are independently financed and then sold for use in marketing. Only top-rated performers can license the use of the awards. J.D. Power also provides its ratings for the financial, home building, and travel industries. In addition to surveys, the firm offers forecasting and other market research services. J.D. Power has half a dozen offices in the US and another 10 internationally. J.D. Power and Associates, Inc. was founded in 1968 by its namesake, James D. Power, III and is owned by publisher McGraw-Hill.

Just Ask A Woman helps clients craft brand strategy, product positioning, and appropriate messaging and channels to reach female consumers based on research that includes focus groups, interviews, and expert analysis. The firm also offers executive coaching, speech writing, and original content generation for magazines, Web sites, or custom publishing. Men are easy to market to -- beer commercials are proof of that, but to reach women, it may take a more nuanced approach. That's where Just Ask A Woman comes in. The strategic marketing consultancy relies on research, conversations, and experts to target women for specific products.

Kiekover Marketing provides market research and strategic marketing planning services. The company's market research expertise includes questionnaire design and implementation, focus group research design and recruiting, mail and Web-based survey research, as well as personal interviews. Kiekover Marketing's strategic planning services help clients by providing target market profiles; pricing, promotion, distribution, and product strategies; and business plan development.

King, Brown & Partners, Inc. was founded in 1992. King, Brown & Partners (KB&P) provides custom market research and marketing consulting services for clients in the technology, retail, pharmaceuticals, financial services and entertainment industries. King, Brown & Partners, Inc. research and advice helps clients identify key customers, develop products, and build effective marketing campaigns. KB&P offers qualitative and quantitative research utilizing focus groups, in-depth interviews, and surveys as well as providing analysis of the results using such techniques as segmentation, perceptual mapping, predictive modeling, and regression. Clients have included Autodesk, FedEx, NIKE, and Wells Fargo.

Knowledge Networks, Inc. combines a variety of market research services, including survey design, information analysis, and data collection to produce syndicated reports and custom market research for a variety of FORTUNE 500 companies. Specializing in consumer research, Knowledge Networks, Inc. offers clients insight in such areas as advertising effectiveness, product development, segmentation, and media planning. Founded by Stanford researchers Douglas Rivers and Norman Nie in 1998, Knowledge Networks, Inc. is backed by such venture capital firms as Alloy Ventures, Maveron, Meritech Capital Partners, and Oak Investment Partners.

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