Proposed additional CX Metric: “Customer Effort;” Rentrak signs up CBS; Kelley Styring comments on coping with MR Innovation (RBDR–1/21/2014), sponsored by Decision Analyst

Today:

1) On her “Impact Blog,” Impact Learning Systems International’s Monica Postell makes a solid case to incorporate “Customer Effort” as a new CX metric.

2) Rentrak made great financial and media strides in signing up CBS to its StationView Essentials service.

3) InsightFarm’s Kelley Styring speaks up with her opinion about the pace and opportunities available through market research innovations.

Decision Analyst President & CEO Jerry Thomas invites you to read his
new thought piece about Brand Strategy. Read it by clicking on this link:

http://www.decisionanalyst.com/daiv2/brandstrategy.dai

Sponsored by Decision Analyst (http://www.decisionanalyst.com), helping companies build stronger brands through advanced analytics.

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Research Business DAILY Report is produced by RFL Communications (rflonline.com), publisher of 4 market research newsletters that strongly complement these MR news videos:
• Research Business Report (technological and methodological changes that economically and constructively impact MR)
• Research Conference Report (summarizing conference speeches from around the world that present ideas, philosophies, methods, tactics, etc. that break new ground)
• Research Department Report (profiling the inner workings of MR departments at leading companies around the world)
• Pharma Market Research Report (the World’s Only Publication that exclusively covers the interests, challenges, opportunities, etc. of MR professionals inside pharmaceutical, health care, biotech and medical device companies)

Pew expands pct. of mobile calls in phone interviewing; Google’s acquisition of Nest could open new information trails; New Product from 24Tru (RBDR–1/20/2014), sponsored by Decision Analyst

1) Pew Research Center is altering its proportion of mobile phone and landline interviews when it conducts telephone research. 2) Google’s acquisition of Nest opens up a world of new information trails from people’s homes. 3) Some argue that there are too many MR innovations and not enough understanding of how they work best. But, that’s not slowing MR innovations, and RBDR spotlights three of them,(including 24Tru and Tag-Man) today.

Decision Analyst President & CEO Jerry Thomas invites you to read his
new thought piece about Brand Strategy. Read it by clicking on this link:

http://www.decisionanalyst.com/daiv2/brandstrategy.dai

Sponsored by Decision Analyst (http://www.decisionanalyst.com), helping companies build stronger brands through advanced analytics.

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Research Business DAILY Report is produced by RFL Communications (rflonline.com), publisher of 4 market research newsletters that strongly complement these MR news videos:
• Research Business Report (technological and methodological changes that economically and constructively impact MR)
• Research Conference Report (summarizing conference speeches from around the world that present ideas, philosophies, methods, tactics, etc. that break new ground)
• Research Department Report (profiling the inner workings of MR departments at leading companies around the world)
• Pharma Market Research Report (the World’s Only Publication that exclusively covers the interests, challenges, opportunities, etc. of MR professionals inside pharmaceutical, health care, biotech and medical device companies)

Stabilizing Sample Pricing explained; UK agency issues Analytic Challenges; Michalis Michael urges serious client insight execs to seek social media help (RBDR–1/16/2014)

Today: 1) Federated Sample CEO Patrick Comer explains the improving pricing in the sampling business.

2) The British Technology Strategy Board has issued innovation challenges requested by high-profile businesses (e.g., Simon Cowell, Penguin Random House publishing and the British film Institute).

3) DigitalMR Ltd.’s Michalis Michael encourages serious consumer insights executives to seek out expertise if they want to integrate social media with their traditional MR work.

Sponsored by Socratic Technologies (http://www.sotech.com), whose proprietary tools and methodologies tackle marketing complexities so that you can make more confident business decisions.

Research Business DAILY Report is produced by RFL Communications (rflonline.com), publisher of 4 market research newsletters that strongly complement these MR news videos:
• Research Business Report (technological and methodological changes that economically and constructively impact MR)
• Research Conference Report (summarizing conference speeches from around the world that present ideas, philosophies, methods, tactics, etc. that break new ground)
• Research Department Report (profiling the inner workings of MR departments at leading companies around the world)
• Pharma Market Research Report (the World’s Only Publication that exclusively covers the interests, challenges, opportunities, etc. of MR professionals inside pharmaceutical, health care, biotech and medical device companies)

Social media guru Perry Marshall; SAS helps launch MR & Analytics Master’s degree (RBDR–11/13/2013)

1) Social media guru Perry Marshall tells RBDR about his new book, “80/20 Sales and Marketing,” and what market researchers should be thinking about social media. 2) SAS is collaborating with Centennial College in Toronto to launch a Master’s program in marketing research & analytics.

Sponsored by Socratic Technologies (http://www.sotech.com), whose proprietary tools and methodologies tackles marketing complexities so that you can make more confident business decisions.