Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Why Apple bought Topsy; Lightspeed & SPAR CEO hires; L’Oreal CMO Promotion (RBDR–12/04/2013)

Today: 1) Social media experts are scratching their heads, trying to make sense of Apple Computer’s purchase of Twitter partner Topsy. 2) RBDR News Notes: David Shanker (Lightspeed Research), Jill Blanchard (SPAR Group), Mark Speichert (L’Oreal), Penn Schoen Berland opens Middle East office, Transparency Market Research projects extent of Predictive Analytics market growth.

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.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Implicix advertising messaging breakthroughs from Conquest: connecting attitude & behavioral, emotional & rational, cognitive linguistics (RBDR–12/3/2013)

Today: Conquest in the UK has introduced Implicix, a new research methodology that ties together individuals’ attitudes with their behavior, their emotional with their rational, plus behavioral economics and cognitive linguistics. It could be a game changer. MD David Penn explained how Heinz and eBay became big fans of Implicix.

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.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

For Johnson and Johnson, Millward Brown’s brand equity comparison leads way to emotional MR; Social media expert Perry Marshall explains why Facebook revenues will triple (RBDR–11/14/2013)

Today: 1) The J&J Consumer Products alteration of its marketing research through Millward Brown’s brand equity comparative tool is a crucial building block to achieving emotional brand/consumer connections.

2) Social media research guru Perry Marshall explains why Facebook will triple its revenues by the summer of 2015 and why Facebook advertising works better for B2C than B2B. Bonus information: Marshall’s http://isfbforme.com website will test Facebook advertising as a value for you and your business.

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.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Social media guru Perry Marshall discusses MR & social media; SAS helping Canadian university to launch MR & Analytics Master’s degree (RBDR–11/13/2013)

Today: 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.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

J&J changes its consumer MR; Tom Anderson peers 2 years into future of text analytics; Multi-tasker skeptic Clifford Nass dies at age 55 (RBDR–11/12/2013)

Today: 1) WARC reported J&J VP Global Strategic Insights Brenda Armstead explained a new MR approach that relies on a Millward Brown cross-company brand equity system for its consumer brands. 2) Anderson Analytics President Tom Anderson looked ahead 2 years into the future at text analytics and sees more domain expertise and industry-specific text analytics tools coming–and a drop off in Twitter- and Enterprise-minitoring. 3) Stanford University sociologist Clifford Nass, who spearheaded skepticism about the validity of information gathered from multi-taskers, died at 55.

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.