Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

P&G dropping 100 brands; Wendy’s GIS new location success (RBDR 8/5/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Mondelez International creates a Chief Growth Officer position, whose responsibilities include research. 2) P&G Chairman and CEO A.G. Lafley tells Wall Street analysts the company will discontinue or merge 90-100 of its smaller brands around the world so that it can maximize the contributions of its 70-80 largest businesses. 3) Wendy’s Real Estate Services Director John Crouse has introduced GIS to the quick service restaurant chain, making major gains in identifying new outlet locations and spreading the tool’s use into other departments.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Don’t word track on Pinterest; CRM means what? Bill Harvey on 3 media MR issues (RBDR 8/4/2014)

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Today: 1) Why “tracking” keywords on Pinterest is a waste of time. 2) CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. Or does it? Two researchers says it can also stand for “Company Recession Management” and they claim to have research that proves it. 3) Bill Harvey reviews 3 media research improvements that will take some time but are so worth it.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

OKCupid also admits user experiments; 2 Critical Emerging MR Trends (RBDR 7/31/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) In the wake of Facebook’s revelation that it conducted an emotional contagion study of almost 700,000 of its users, OKCupid confesses to experiments of its own on users of the free matchmaking service. (Here is the link to the Microsoft Research study into the Facebook user experiment: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033369/why-did-we-care-about-the-facebook-contagion-study-or-did-we-even-care-at-all)

2) Marketresearch.com’s Managing Editor Ashlan Bonnell comments for RBDR on 3 important, emerging market research trends, whose details you may not understand.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

NYT, CBS 1st to do non-prob polling; JD Power to enter Auto HOF; Twitter MR tool (RBDR 7/30/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) The first major news organizations adopt non-probability sampling sample for polling. YouGov is the sample provider; New York Times & CBS News are the users. 2) J.D. Power III is accepting congratulations for his election to the Automotive Hall of Fame. 3) Twitter is about to launch a research tool that helps brands analyze key words from conversations during a one-week period. 4) RBDR’s report about Canvas Fingerprinting Web tracking proved to have some holes. It is basically only workable on smaller websites and it is blockable.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Mktg MUST CHANGE its media ways; U.S. MR recovery continues (RBDR 7/29/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) The world’s oldest research agency has changed its name. 2) MRA’s latest Research Industry Index shows continuing progress in the U.S. market research industry’s recovery from the Great Recession. 3) Northwestern Professor Emeritus Don Schultz blogs about how badly marketers need to finally cut the cord from their ways of the past.