During COVID-19, consumer habits and preferences were changing rapidly as people looked for alternative ways to spend time with their loved ones. Moreover, research performed by Reach3 Insights indicated that 45% of Americans had shifted brands during the pandemic, and 85% of these consumers planned to stick with their new purchase decisions.
How Brunswick uses Reach3's New Customer Experience solution to nurture the next wave of brand advocates
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
      About Brunswick Corporation
Established in 1845, Brunswick Corporation is the largest maker of pleasure boats in the world. They are responsible for developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of recreational marine products, such as boats, parts, accessories, propulsion, and business acceleration.
Challenge and objectives
Challenge and objectives
With a massive influx of new customers, Brunswick had to better understand the needs and expectations of these new boaters — fast. 
A key question for the company: Would boating become a new pastime, or a passing fancy for these consumers?
Notable Wins
Powerful 
testimonials
        Punctuated critical customer feedback and made stakeholders take notice
Enhanced 
experience
        Informed new marketing campaigns, retail partner programs, and messaging
Actionable 
feedback
        Highlighted critical moments in the digital experience
The solution
Working with Reach3 Insights powered by Rival Technologies' mobile market research platform, Brunswick activated Ripl, a customer community solution for new and existing customers. This community was positioned as a free place for members to meet other boaters, earn exclusive perks and participate in mobile-based surveys on the Rival platform that will make boating more safe, fun and accessible.
The goal of the Ripl community was to gather deeper insights into the purchase journey of new customers, potential points of friction, safety concerns, and other key drivers of their decision-making process. To better understand the experiences of new and existing boaters, members were presented with a mix of open-end, selfie-video, and quantitative engagements.
Outcomes - The new platform delivered big wins:
          
          Outcomes - The new platform delivered big wins:
Allowed Brunswick to quickly gather rigorous quant data and deeper, richer qual feedback from their consumers in one agile learning stream.
The community allows Brunswick to run rapid, repeatable studies at scale with a variety of key customer segments.
Rich video selfies helped reveal contextual dynamics behind the e-commerce shopping experience and revealed several specific optimization areas that had the potential to increase conversion.
Gathered actionable feedback that highlights critical moments in the digital experience and potential points of friction
            Larisa Mats
Consumer & Market Insights Leader
The Ripl community has already provided immeasurable value. The Rival platform has replaced the need to invest significant resources into siloed, ad-hoc research projects. I don’t have a team of researchers at Brunswick, so the greatest source of value comes from having Reach3 on my team.
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