Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

Two weeks ago, I told you I planned to do a series of interviews with the 10 most influential people in social media I could find. Doing an interview with 10 people, even a relatively short/fun one, takes a lot more time than I thought. I’m really an unstructured data analyst during the day and [...]

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What IS Social Media Analytics- Can we Agree?

Social Media Data is a commodity - Tools and approaches are not.
(Social Media Expert Interview Series Part 3 of 3 - Part 1, Part 2)
I just did a brief panel interview with Useful Social Media ahead of the Social Media Analytics Summit. We were asked four very interesting [...]

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IKEA Responds to the #IKEAfoodFAIL Post

[IKEA has just sent a second response to yesterday's blog post as well as an answer to my subsequent request to clarify an article in Swedish business paper SvD, which stated that IKEA was planning to reverse the decision to carry only IKEA branded food. Their verbatim explanation below.]
Hello Tom,
Thank [...]

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Should Micro Segments Matter? (Random Waxing on Text Analytics and Brand Equity)

In 1638 the New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River. Between 1846 and 1930 roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population at the time left the country, the majority for the USA. By 1900, there were close to [...]

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Free Social Media and Text Analytics Webinar Discussion

This Wednesday at 2:00EST I’ve agreed to take part in a social analytics webinar. The webinar is free and I understand space is limited and there are already about 500 registrations.
While the discussion will be broad we’ll be saving room for audience Q&A and I hope we’ll get [...]

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I saw an article the other day on “How to Pimp your LinkedIn Profile”. As I’m a big LinkedIn fan it made me stop and think about what the ideal amount of information on a profile is.
In the past, partly for SEO, I have taken the defacto approach that more info is better. But now [...]

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Who influences you most on Social Media?

I think occasionally it’s good for market researchers to stop and listen to what the marketers have to say. So I’m planning to reach out to a few of my most influential ‘social media friends’ for an NGMR blog interview.
I’m thinking of folks who are really influential about social [...]

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Social Media Analytics Expert Interview Series: Part 2 of 2
Last week ahead of the Social Media Analytics Summit, Useful Social Media published the second part of their Expert Interview Series (Link below). Incidentally, this week in the current issue of Inside Research (”The Bible of the Market Research Industry”), IR also published the results of [...]

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