Today a clearer vision of the Brave New World of marketing insights emerged through the announcement of the strategic partnership between Research Now and Vision Critical. Continue reading »

Investor Jonathan Ewert interviews Chris Fanning, CEO of Survey Sampling International on the investment opportunity in Market Research. Continue reading »

An interview with Ryan Smith, CEO of Qualtrics. This is a leader and a company that we’re going to be hearing an awful lot about in the coming years so pay attention folks; Ryan and Qualtrics are going to be making a big impact on the MR industry. Continue reading »

With new tools in consumer ideation and co-creation combined with lightning fast big data analytics, MR is evolving from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan. Continue reading »

I won’t be shy about this: I left MRMW feeling rather vindicated. Two days of excellent speakers, one by one, reinforced each of the points I made previously in my 8 Things I Would Do if I Were a Market Research Company post. Here is what I heard and what I think it means today. Continue reading »

Now that a few days have passed and I’ve had an opportunity to decompress and think about the MRMW conference in it’s entirety, I thought I’d share what the main takeaways were for me. Here are my Top 10. Continue reading »

We don’t know for certain that another recession will hit in 2012, but it seems unlikely that the Eurozone is going to avoid it. The issue for the MR industry is that during tough times, although end clients want to continue doing research, they also want more for their budgets –and they want it fast. For any brand or business to progress they need to be reactive to the market and to consumer trends; in turn, the MR industry needs to keep up with these new and ever-increasing demands. Continue reading »

I have read countless articles expressing the viewpoint that the new opportunities presented by New MR (e.g. social media listening, mobile, text analytics, MROCs, Crowdsourcing, neuro-monitoring, etc.) are merely new tools in our toolbox. I don’t agree with that politically correct argument. I think these new tools are the replacements. Which means “the survey” and “some groups” are going the way of the dodo bird. Continue reading »

Conference season is almost over, but we have 4 more left over the next few weeks: ESOMAR 3D Digital Dimensions 2011, the Festival of NewMR, The Market Research Event, and MRIA Digital Conference: Some Like It Mobile. Continue reading »

I often wonder whether, in research, we spend so much time navigating the complexities of gathering the data that we neglect the all-important field of communicating what we find. Issues such as online representativeness, phone response rates, and newer forms of data collection (mobile MR, social media sampling, etc.) take up so much of our mental bandwidth that it can be easy to give short shrift to clarity and accuracy in reporting. Continue reading »