Bob Lederer’s RBDR Commentary: Multiple Dilemmas for Client MRers, Part 1 (RBDR–12/10/2013)

Today: RBDR commentary on one of the most aggravating issues facing market research department and their vendors: understanding all the proper uses, potential uses and improper uses of all the tools and techniques now in every client research department’s tool box.

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Mobile research trends spelled out and explained (RBDR–12/9/2013)

Today: uSamp SVP Mobile Business Solutions Lisa Wilding Brown reveals to RBDR viewers that many clients are planning to make mobile research a much larger portion of their research investment in 2014, she explains why that is the case and she touches on misconceptions about mobile research.

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SurveyMonkey DIY launch for giant businesses; Google fines for privacy violations; Tribune Co.’s new SVP-Research; 76-seconds to create online loyalty or you lose it; Not-to-be-missed: Census Bureau’s data visualization pinwheel (RBDR–11/22/2013)

Today: 1) SurveyMonkey Enterprise DIY aimed at largest businesses. 2) You have only 76 seconds to please a potential client online before they leave. 3) Google settles with 37 states for circumventing Safari third-party cookie blocking with its advertising. 4) Tribune Co. hired Toni Falvo, called by a local scribe “the dean of Chicago TV station ratings & research analysts,” as its SVP Research. 5) The Census Bureau’s interactive data visualization pinwheel must be seen to be believed. Think of its potential value in your research:

http://vizynary.com/2013/11/18/restless-america-state-to-state-migration-in-2012/

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MIT’s inFORM intro could be great MR tool; Using NodeXL for your social media MR (RBDR–11/20/2013)

Today on RBDR: 1) Three MIT researchers have created inFORM, a device that can physically render digital 3D content to people at remote locations. What a great potential research tool, even if it may be somewhat in our future. 2) Multivariate Solutions’ Michael Lieberman explains how he has applied NodeXL in his research work. (YOU WILL WANT TO EXPAND THE VIDEO TO FULL SCREEN TO SEE MICHAEL’S SUPPORTING GRAPHS.)

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Sir Martin Sorrell projects ad businesses in 2018; Freshminds’ CEO Carolyn Plumb says client MRers need to make 3 changes; Texas A&M prof says more stringent MR statistical standards are needed

Today: 1) WPP CEO Martin Sorrell gazes at the advertising business five years from now and says WPP agencies will focus more on research, data and CIOs. 2) Freshminds’ Carolyn Plumb asserts that client market researchers need to make three important changes in the way they function internally. 3) Texas A&M professor & statistician Valen Johnson says statistical standards used to judge the soundness of research efforts need to be made more stringent.

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