Posts Tagged Market Research

Elusive Triggers

Last week, my wife and I were listening to a story on Marketplace from American Public Media about how women don’t really tell us (marketers) what they want and we, in-turn, don’t really reach out to them. You can get the story here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/11/24/am-womens-marketing/
For those of us in the market research industry, the name Mary [...]

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Ride Brooklyn Demonstrates Importance of Research

The following news piece is from WNYC public radio talking about the growth bike shops in Brooklyn.

One of the first quotes from Pete Kocher of Ride Brooklyn is “A lot of signs pointed to this is a business that could succeed.” These “signs” are seen through research. Kocher may have just been lucky [...]

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Marketing Science and Art

This morning I read a quick post from Seth Godin’s blog on whether marketing is a science or art (hint: its both).
This got me to thinking: no question that with my strategic planning background I fall into the science category in most cases, and I totally agree with Seth that the main problem for [...]

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Your morning cup-o-joe.

I’m a coffee snob.  I admit it.  I roast my own coffee, ran my own coffee roasting company for a while, and I’ve been in tasting coffee in “cupping” sessions many times before.  So, when I read that Eight O’Clock coffee won top honors from Consumer Reports I was skeptical.But the marketer in me did [...]

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ThisWay

I’ve neglected to mention my new favorite blog for funtime reading (not that it’s a new blog, I’m just new to the party). Bicycle Design is essentially exactly what it sounds like – a blog about Bicycle Design. It is written by James T, “an industrial designer who has a slight (but I [...]

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