Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Facial coding more useful to MR than mobile; Google/comScore collaboration (RBDR–4/22/2014)

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) One of the world’s top five market research companies admits that there is more potential right now with facial coding than mobile research. 2) The government of Turkey is battling social media. 3) comScore Chairman Emeritus Gian Fulgoni discusses what the comScore-Google collaboration means to social media customers.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

VOC: don’t ask questions, “actively listen;” Teens DO Like Facebook! (RBDR–4/21/2014)

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) Market research needs to follow the advice the most consumers hear but don’t follow: become an active listener to tap into all the sources (new and old) of information available to the MR industry. 2) McMillion Research is using Experian Data Quality to ensure the quality of newly recruited research respondents. 3) Teens don’t like Facebook any more. It’s been a fact for months, except it’s not true. Edison Research’s Tom Webster explains how he knows.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Finding, recruiting analytic talent; Mistakes from brand packaging changes (RBDR–4/17/14)

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

To find out more about Nuance: http://www.nuancecoding.com

Today: 1) Evolv President Jim Meyerle explains how he identifies and recruits top flight Big Data personnel for his R&D group. His ideas and philosophies are pertinent and applicable in MR’s search for more and better analytics personnel. 2) Decision Insight CRO Alex Sodek explains why so many brands want to change their packaging–and why it usually ends up being a bad decision.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Did you buy Google Glass Tuesday?; “Agile MR” essentials (RBDR–4/16/2014)

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

Here’s a valuable link to Nuance: http://www.nuancecoding.com

Today: 1) IBM acquires Silverpop to sharpen targeting of its IT sales messaging via email and text messaging. 2) Google Glass was on sale Tuesday for one day only. The price: $1,500.00. Now, the quest is on to find suitable, workable, profitable uses for Google Glass. 3) What is Agile Research and why are so many market researchers talking about it? Gutcheck’s Matt Warta explains to the uninitiated, which included us.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

2nd screen w/TV overstated; B2B internal data needs external help (RBDR–4/15/14)

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

An important link to Nuance: http://www.nuancecoding.com

Today: 1) A Council for Research Excellence study says social media use in conjunction with TV is overstated. 2) Forrester Research’s new B2B study says using only internally-available data doesn’t get the job done for B2B marketers. 3) MarketResearch.com Managing Editor Ashlan Bonnell has two pieces of advice for market research vis-a-vis social media. (And you can download a marketresearch.com white paper on how to use social media with market research by clicking here: http://content.marketresearch.com/download-how-to-use-social-media-for-market-research-whitepaper)