by May 14, 2013
Greg's most recent post, Get Back to the Trenches, reminded me of a
session I attended at the recent Mid-Atlantic Marketing Summit.
Where Ken Chow, CMO at LogiAnalytics, Tom Kohn, Former EVP of
Digital at Cygnus Business Media, Bob London, Founder &
President of London Ink, and Bob Ragsdale, VP of...read more
by May 7, 2013
In a previous post I discussed the basics for conducting online
advertising testing. With the advent of online survey platforms the
ability to test various advertising messages and formats is easier
than ever. Gone are the days of renting large rooms and embedding
ads in mock programs. The current...read more
by April 17, 2013
Survey research can be used to assess the attitudes and opinions of
virtually any group or sub-group. Most of my work has been in the
areas of consumer and B2B market research, but from time to time my
focus has shifted toward surveying employees. This makes perfect
sense as our employees are the...read more
by March 28, 2013
The concept of a New York minute can be applied to market research.
For those who do not know a New York minute is an instant, which is
infinitely shorter than the 60-second minute you and I work with.
In the current haze of cloud-based thinking, we can apply this
short attention span metric via the...read more
by March 14, 2013
As winter winds its way down and spring looms on the horizon, I was
reminded recently of a sampling technique used in the old days that
has taken on a new spin. It used to be called snowball sampling.
Just as a snowball gets bigger as it rolls down the hill, this form
of sampling builds up the...read more
by February 22, 2013
There is a new C-level position taking shape. According to work
published in the Harvard Business Review blog the next generation
of C-level executive is likely to be the Chief Customer Officer
(CCO). This is a good thing for those of us in marketing research
and consumer insight positions as it...read more
by February 21, 2013
LinkedIn can be an excellent platform not only for networking, but
also for holding meaningful discussions with others in your line of
work. A member of the Customer Experience Management LinkedIn Group
posed this discussion question to her fellow CRM-minded members:
How are we actually defining...read more
by February 14, 2013
It’s time to reach out and touch someone. All eyes are on
Valentine’s Day and sharing the love. How does this thought process
apply to market research you may ask? Well that’s easy to see if
you consider each survey touchpoint an opportunity to share a bit
of love. It doesn’t matter if you are...read more
by January 30, 2013
Are products services and vice versa? There is a bit of confusion
in the marketing waters nowadays about this issue. Essentially,
from my humble perspective, there is little difference between a
product and a service. Yes, it is difficult to load a service into
your car and install it in your...read more
by January 25, 2013
Well the good news is that I am back on the podium instructing
another session of Market Research 101. Teaching brings many joys
for me, one in particular is that it challenges me to go back over
my practices and check to see if they are indeed ‘best practices.’
In a recent class session we began a...read more
