Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Short, Sweet and Insightful - The Future of Surveys is Text Analytics
Yesterday there was a post on the Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR) on LinkedIn asking “What’s the shortest questionnaire you ever wrote?”. I took a look at this blog as I thought I would have posted the survey below previously but apparently it [...]

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Strangely, Customer Satisfaction Research Among Super Users is Missing from Major Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace…
My last post was about Facebook finally listening to what its users think. I think all the major social networks have been doing an extremely poor job in doing this. The 80/20 rule is totally ignored. I can [...]

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Encouraging and Respecting Users - Wouldn’t a Facebook United Nations Be a Good Idea?
 
Facebook posted new terms of use a couple of weeks ago. Since then they have received a lot of “feedback”, mainly negative I would assume, and have decided to revert to the old rules until the key issues can been resolved.
What I [...]

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Facebook Stole My Money and My Data!
When Facebook first released its polling tool I was among the first to give it a try. It was like a one question omnibus that you could field to thousands of GenX2Z respondents and get responses in a couple of hours.
I used it cautiously of course, more as an [...]

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Seth Godin talks to Tom H. C. Anderson about Marketing and Market Research
For the past few years Seth Godin has continued to be the top-of-mind business guru among marketing executives. Today I ask him a few questions about what he does, how he does it, and what some of his thoughts are on marketing [...]

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Dell seems to have put a value on non-offshored service - $150 per year
 
Yesterday we had to contact Dell about a recent and somewhat large hardware purchase. The solution the sales person had recommended at the time of purchase was not compatible during the set up and installation. It was a Windows Vista/64 Bit compatibility [...]

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I was very pleasantly surprised and honored yesterday to have the paper I presented on Text Analytics in Market Research at the ESOMAR Innovate conference nominated for the best ESOMAR paper of the year award!
My presentation which was based on the paper took the audience through 3 case studies. A hospitality guest satisfaction case from [...]

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50 Years after the Edsel, marketers still often fail to understand the customer
My recent post about the lack of quality/service and dismissal of my complaint at the local BMW dealership seemed to draw a lot of attention. Unfortunately I think it’s easy even for us in the marketing profession to forget to listen to our [...]

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Peppers & Rogers Group Marketing Guru, Don Peppers and Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson discuss consulting, segmentation, CRM, and the current condition of One-to-One marketing.
[Marketing Guru Round Table Discussion #5 ]

Don Peppers
Marketing Guru
This Wednesday, I had a very interesting call with Don Peppers of Peppers & Rogers. I asked him a few questions about his [...]

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Wondering if true quality has a place in today’s push for cost efficiency through globalization?
A study released yesterday among luxury car brands claimed BMW ranked #1 on quality and Toyota ranked 5th! I don’t think we know what quality is anymore, and perhaps it’s the consumers fault.
Most “economic historical” books that compare life then and [...]

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