Epley Probe® Methodology

The Epley Probe® methodology uncovers answers that elude other research firms.  We discover customer movement, be it with your current customers, prospective customers, or even those you serve in-house—your own employees.

Guided, Direct, In-Depth Research

We conduct guided, direct, and in-depth conversations with your individual customers or employees so you gain visibility into blind spots that puzzle you.  We find out what they cannot articulate to other research firms or even to your company’s own reps.

Objective Insight on Key Business Issues

We answer questions that you struggle with, such as:

  • Why do some prospects buy our products and others don’t?
  • Why is one region losing customers while another region had double-digit growth?
  • Why can’t we upsell services to our key customers?
  • Why is our employee turnover rate rising?
  • And many, many more…

Keeping Your Customers Engaged

With Epley, you will learn what you need to keep your customers or employees engaged at every step of the relationship.  Regardless of whether your offerings are product or service based, uncover the unique needs and expectations customers bring to their working relationship with you and what is required to continually satisfy—or exceed—those expectations.  Discover the elements that contribute to customer and employee loyalty—what drives their decisions to remain or seek alternatives.

Individual Customer/Employee Analysis

Acquire a deeper understanding of each of your customers or employees—like why or how they make decisions and what behaviors led to their attraction or dislike for your company. You will receive detailed customer-level reports that will immerse you in each respondent’s decision-making process.

“Qualitative Research on Steroids”

These aren’t your traditional surveys…

  • They don’t provide you with half-baked or generic answers pinned to other research firms’ 1- to 5-point scaled surveys.
  • They don’t tie behavior or thoughts and motivations to base choices or a single numerical scores.
  • They don’t leave you scratching your head, wondering what the feedback means or what the “next steps” look like.

Instead, they give you a glimpse into the minds of your customers. You learn about their desires, motivations, behaviors, and thoughts—all grounded in concrete, real-life examples analyzed by an objective, neutral third party. What Epley delivers is fact, not conjecture or interpretation—it is, simply put, the truth from your customers’ point of view.