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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW · 2026

New Research on How Brand Associations Drive Customer Spending

The follow-up to CSV. If surplus value measures how much a brand is worth to its customers, this asks what creates that worth: which brand associations actually move what customers spend.

Marco Vriens, Rogier Verhulst, Felix Eggers, Srikant Narasimhan & Erin Condon

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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW · 2024

Why You Should Be Tracking Customer Surplus Value

Introduces Customer Surplus Value (CSV): the dollar value customers feel they get beyond what they pay. A stronger predictor of retention than NPS.

Felix Eggers, Marco Vriens, Rogier Verhulst, Jason S. Talwar & Avinash Collis

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BOOKS

The shelf

Cover of The Handbook of Marketing Research
The Handbook of Marketing Research Rajiv Grover & Marco Vriens · SAGE Publications, 2006

The definitive academic reference: frameworks, modeling, and forecasting applications.

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Cover of The Business of Marketing Research
The Business of Marketing Research Marco Vriens, Douwe Rademaker, Rogier Verhulst · Cognella, 2014

An insider’s guide to how research actually functions inside organizations.

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Cover of From Data to Decision (2nd ed.)
From Data to Decision (2nd ed.) Marco Vriens & Chad Vidden · Cognella

Translating research insight into business decisions, end to end.

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Cover of The Insights Advantage: Knowing How to Win
The Insights Advantage: Knowing How to Win Marco Vriens · iUniverse, 2012

A practical guide to turning data into decisions, with corporate and startup cases.

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PEER-REVIEWED & TRADE ARTICLES

The papers

Journal of Product & Brand Management, 2019
The evaluation of a brand association density metric

The paper that introduced Brand Density: a structured way to quantify how richly and meaningfully people associate with a brand.

Marco Vriens, Song Chen, Judith Schomaker
June 2025
Using conjoint to assess the value of brand associations

A new methodology for deriving dollar values for brand attributes from open-ended associations.

Marco Vriens & Felix Eggers
In press
Customer Needs & Solutions, 2026 (forthcoming)
Holistic Conjoint

Advanced conjoint methodology for comprehensive preference modeling.

Marco Vriens & Felix Eggers
Quirk’s Marketing Research Review, 2024
The Use of Synthetic Data in Marketing Research

Where AI-simulated panels help, where they mislead, and the discipline for using them responsibly.

Marco Vriens, Chad Vidden & Rogier Verhulst
Applied Marketing Analytics, 2025
Using Conjoint Analysis Across the Marketing Value Chain

A roadmap for when and how to use conjoint modeling effectively.

Marco Vriens & Felix Eggers
International Journal of Market Research, 2019
Mapping brand similarities: consumer online comments versus survey data

Comparing brand perception measured from online comments and from surveys.

Marco Vriens, Song Chen & Chad Vidden
Applied Marketing Analytics, 2019
The Linux Compete Strategy: An Analytics Case Study

Competitive analytics applied in the technology sector.

Marco Vriens & Chad Vidden

Citation records: Google Scholar · Felix Eggers on Scholar · full texts and preprints on ResearchGate.

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