Of the 1,360 unique links shared on the Twitter #MRX community last week, here are the Top 10 most retweeted. Continue reading »

Of the 1,280 unique links shared on the Twitter #MRX community in the past two weeks, here are the top 10 most retweeted. Continue reading »

What does this year’s PGA Tour and IIR’s The Market Research “Technology” Event have in common? Instead of the diversity of new golfers, our industry is seeing a wide breadth of new technologies, techniques and companies that are challenging the status quo. Continue reading »

There’s more to social than just data. Social involves a mindset that prizes openness and collaboration and a method that stresses agility, capabilities that allow individuals to work quickly, on the go, on the cloud. These aspects of social are transforming market research. Continue reading »

Most market researchers give little to no thought to their reliance on recall. They fail to challenge themselves to better understand respondents, and in so doing they fail their clients and themselves. Continue reading »

Let’s just put it out there: I am an unabashed fan of Affinnova. I think they are a VERY smart company and are a prime example of of the type of firm that will flourish in the future of market research. After reading this interview with CEO Waleed Al-Atraqchi I think you’ll see why. Continue reading »

Market Research is bifurcating – becoming at once more grounded in real people through the rise of ethnography and shop-along interviews where real people bring you into their real-ish lives (or as much as they can given you are an interviewer with a giant video camera in their very very clean house) and at the same time, MR is becoming more Technology centric and dependent. And, it is the intersection of these two where some true beauty happens in terms of human understanding. Continue reading »

Since I finally accepted the truth that I have become a brand, I’ve become increasingly aware of the parallels between my own journey and how companies can use a similar model to build their own brands and compete effectively against far larger organizations. Here’s how it works. Continue reading »