Bob Lederer

July 29, 2014 Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Mktg MUST CHANGE its media ways; U.S. MR recovery continues (RBDR 7/29/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) The world’s oldest research agency has changed its name. 2) MRA’s latest Research Industry Index shows continuing progress in the U.S. market research industry’s recovery from the Great Recession. 3) Northwestern Professor Emeritus Don Schultz blogs about how badly marketers need to finally cut the cord from their ways of the past.

July 28, 2014 Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

CER low impact; Big Data In-patient MR; FDA continuing Mini-Sentinel? (PRVR–7/28-31/2014)

This week on Pharma Research VIDEO Report:
1) Experts agree the promise of comparative effectiveness research is having very little impact on healthcare decision making. 2) Dr. David Bates researched Big Data algorithms that he says can positively impact the expenditures on low-hanging fruit with in-patients. 3) The FDA must make a decision on whether or not to continue Mini-Sentinel, a program that queries 18 health plan and insurance partners about patient records that can show adverse events.

July 28, 2014 Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

World Cup depressed MR; Marketers reveal rest of 2014 plans for MR (RBDR–7/28/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Ipsos’s first half of 2014 financials are very disappointing, and the reasons for them are important and valuable for other market researchers. 2) Marketers attending Incite Summit: West in San Francisco share their plans for priorities in the remaining months of 2014.

July 24, 2014 Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Making analytics a game changer; Improving online communities (RBDR 7/24/2014)

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Making news on RBDR today: 1) A study from a marketing technology and targeting firm reports surprising merits from use of mobile ad clicks. 2) Corporations are devoting intense time and financial commitment to analytics, according to many experts, however their ability to figure out how to generate valuable information from it is falling way short. 3) KL communications’ EVP Business Development Sean Holbert tells RBDR that online community work is unnecessarily stuck in conducting branded community activities.

July 23, 2014 Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Personal devices hurt mktg, MR effort; New Web tracker: “Canvass Fingerprints” (RBDR–7/23/2014)

RBDR is sponsored this week by Research Now, with the industry’s most comprehensive mobile research platform, ideally suited for custom qualitative and quantitative research.

Making news on RBDR today: 1) A Yahoo Canada-inspired study says that consumers’ intensive use of hi-tech devices like cell phones, tablet, PCs and more to store their personal information is damaging marketing and MR efforts. 2) Normal brand marketing communications and consumer messaging relies on tapping into different human emotions than similar work conducted to build sustainable messaging. 3) Few individuals like cookies; now they need to pay attention to “Canvass Fingerprints,” the latest Web tracking tool.