Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Mobile mkters leverage metrics better; Toluna’s Haney on mobile MR (RBDR–5/30/2014)

Sponsored by Precision Opinion (http://www.PrecisionOpinion.com), for phone, focus+ and online, the most trusted name in market research.

Plus, now with a mobile research division. Find out about it: http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news18877.htm

Today: 1) Ifbyphone’s “2014 State of Marketing Measurement” survey shows marketers who are deeply into mobile marketing are leading the way in leveraging marketing metrics. 2) Toluna SVP Product Marketing Carol Haney shares unique insights about the unique and worthwhile uses of mobile research.

Today’s RBDR link “in the cloud”: https://cloud.real.com/s/ZERfyQ

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

NPs need to hear from “Harbingers of Failure;” Styring on social media & MR (RBDR 5 27 2014

Sponsored by Precision Opiinion (http://www.PrecisionOpinion.com), for phone, focus+ and online, the most trusted name in market research.

Plus, now with a mobile research division. Find out about it: http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news18877.htm

Today: 1) New Product marketing needs to look beyond “influencers.” Kellogg School of Management’s Eric Anderson and three colleagues reveal a study that recommends tapping into “harbingers of failure.” 2) InsightFarm’s Kelley Styring shares her thoughts about the place social media has in market research.

This RBDR’s “cloud link”: https://cloud.real.com/s/nCG9vQ

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

“Favoriting” to vanish? MR tools should answer “Why”; Google Glass won’t fly? (RBDR–5/20/2014)

Sponsored by Nuance, offering multi-language verbatim coding services to help companies quantify the meaning of open-ended answers. Nuance, a Decision Analyst company.

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Today: 1) A study from two European universities about Twitter “favoriting” explains why it happens but the capability may be on its last legs. 2) KL Communications President Kevin Lonnie takes on research industry satisfaction with the kids of research innovations it is willing to incorporate for better research. He says it is lacking in helping to capture “Why” for clients. 3) On Seeking Alpha, Leigh Grogen details several reasons why Google Glass is unlikely to become a hit with consumers.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Change needed in pharmaco-payer relationship; Cancer spending slowing (PRVR–5/19 – 5/23/14)

This week on Pharma Research VIDEO Report:  1) Ernst & Young’s annual global pharmaceutical industry report is chock-full of insights about the critical business relationship between pharmaceutical companies and payers that needs substantial repair.    2)  An IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics shows that the impressive $91 billion invested worldwide — annually — in oncology medicines has been significantly slowing. 3) A Mobiquity survey, conduct by Research Now, reveals 55% of health & fitness app users plan to buy wearable devices to track and improve their health because  they believe they are physically benefitting.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

15-40% BETTER NP predictability; EU’s new STIFF search privacy rules (RBDR–5/15/2014)

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

Today: 1) Facebook’s new Audience Insights tool for marketers may be turning its data into one of the market’s most comprehensive planning tools. 2) Notoriously unpredictable New Product forecasting can be improved by 15-40% by considering and tracking online buzz for a good period of time prior to the product launch. 3) Google and other search engines face a very stiff new privacy requirement in the European Union: following through on user requests to remove their personal dat from their search information.