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.

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

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.

Facial coding for qualitative; MIT profs: we’ve improved banner ad clickthroughs (RBDR–5/19/2014)

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) What we recognize as traditional qualitative research gains an ability to read emotions through supplemental facial coding capabilities from Affectiva. 2) Banner ads are nowhere as exciting or effective today as they were in the Internet’s infancy. But two MIT professors have developed an algorithm that they say increases banner advertising clickthroughs by 83%.

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)