Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Personal devices hurt mktg, MR effort; New Web tracker: “Canvass Fingerprints” (RBDR–7/23/2014)

RBDR is sponsored this week by Research Now, with the industry’s most comprehensive mobile research platform, ideally suited for custom qualitative and quantitative research.

Mobile is Now. If you would like to find out how to make your surveys mobile-ready, you are invited to register for the complimentary Tuesday August 5 Research Now webinar at http://www.mobilenowsurveys.com.

Making news on RBDR today: 1) A Yahoo Canada-inspired study says that consumers’ intensive use of hi-tech devices like cell phones, tablet, PCs and more to store their personal information is damaging marketing and MR efforts. 2) Normal brand marketing communications and consumer messaging relies on tapping into different human emotions than similar work conducted to build sustainable messaging. 3) Few individuals like cookies; now they need to pay attention to “Canvass Fingerprints,” the latest Web tracking tool.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Big Share draws mktg & finance together; How CMOs should change (RBDR–7/22/14)

RBDR is sponsored this week by Research Now, with the industry’s most comprehensive mobile research platform, ideally suited for custom qualitative and quantitative research.

Mobile is Now. If you would like to find out how to make your surveys mobile-ready, we recommend you register for the complimentary Tuesday August 5 Research Now webinar at http://www.mobilenowsurveys.com.

Making news on RBDR today: 1) MarketShare co-founder and CEO Wes Nichols notes four prominent U.S. corporations who prove his contention that sharing Big Data is driving marketing and finance departments together. 2) A Vivaldi Partners Group study of 50 CMOS on three continents concludes that the Chief Marketing Officer role needs to back off and allow talented individuals working in departments underneath them to play their trade and exert their expert influence.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Client MR attitude, behavior re new MR tools has changed (RBDR–6/23/2014)

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

Precision Opinion’s YouSay! mobile platform offers large domestic and international panels, along with a dynamic mobile survey platform that converts seamlessly to the screen size of smartphones and tablets — including IOs, Droid and Windows. In addition, the separate YouSay! app is generations above others in GeoFencing, Beacon Testing’s and Push Notifications. YouSay! is already designed to work with the release of IOs8 and offers the most competitive pricing around, including a “no-charge-per-complete” pricing structure.

Find out about it at http://www.yousaymobile.com.

Today: 1) RBDR congratulates Gayle Fuguitt on her election to the MRC Hall of Fame. 2) A review of the Innovation Insights Exchange conference in Atlanta last week from the vantage point of MR innovation adoption by client market research departments. 3) Eric Cantor’s stunning primary loss left a number of pollsters unnerved about how pre-primary polling was so far off.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Sports sponsorships metrics; Bill Harvey on Erwin Ephron (RBDR–6/16/2014)

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

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

Today: 1) With the World Cup in full throttle, McKinsey & Co. reviewed the five metrics that sponsors should track behind their sports activity. 2) The first ARF Erwin Ephron Demystification Award winner, Bill Harvey, looks back at his relationship with Ephron and Ephron’s long-standing impact on media research.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

60%+ opt-in to be location tracked; Penetrating “Upset Customer” Infographic (RBDR–6/11/14)

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) AMA announces its 2014 Parlin MR award winner and MRA bestows its Impact Award. 2) Individuals may prize their privacy but a study shows over 60% are opting-in to allow an app to locate them. 3) Vision Critical President & Chief Product Officer Andrew Reid presents an Infographic that details why companies can not afford unhappy customers. See it for yourself at entrepreneur.com/article/234603