Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Klout Stars series highlights top influencers and how they got to where they are today

Social Media Influence measurement leader Klout.com just asked me a couple of questions about how I use social media as part of their continuing Klout Star series.
Measuring online influence arguably is an even more difficult task than understanding what people say [...]

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Marketing Research Association (MRA) Hot Seat Video Interview Part Two
The second part of MRA’s Hot Seat Video Blog was recently posted on their blog (YouTube video below). Jack asked me a few questions about Next Gen Market Research and Social Media Marketing, two of my favorite topics.

If you missed part one of the interview which [...]

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Interview on Influence with Social Media Citizens
I was interviewed by Giedrius Ivanauskas on behalf of both Social Media Citizens and Social Marketing Forum earlier today. I found his questions rather interesting, as they’re not the type of things I typically get asked by market researchers. It was sort of interesting thinking about the questions both [...]

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What Next Gen Researchers can learn from Guy Kawasaki
Even though I get several requests, I hardly ever promote books or other products here on the NGMR blog. I will make an exception from time to time. One of our 10,000+ NGMR members in particular, Guy Kawasaki, though not an active participant in our LinkedIn discussion [...]

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Top Market Research Honors from Guy Kawasaki and Interview with Sean Copeland
As 2010 drew to a close this blog was honored first by being mentioned in the Top-10 List of Market Research blogs by new and upcoming Next Gen Research blogger Sean Copeland, and then by becoming the #1 blog on Guy Kawasaki’s All-Top Market [...]

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Fighting DIY Market Research Trend is Useless

DIY (Do it Yourself) Market Research seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. So today an analogy about DIY market research, and some advice to market researchers concerned about the DIY trend.
But first a bit about the history of the ice making industry courtesy of Guy Kawasaki:
Ice 1.0 At one [...]

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Amusing to me to see few businesses following the follow back etiquette on Twitter that Guy Kawasaki has advocated. A missed opportunity in increasing # of followers an to be courteous to your customers.
Plus with text analytics tools it even gives you the opportunity to listen in on and understand your fans better. Hello! Probably [...]

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Part I: Marketing Gurus
Each year Anderson Analytics and MENG (Marketing Executives Networking Group) releases the Marketing Trends study results. We’ll be releasing results tomorrow, Tuesday the 2nd, and I will also share selected findings here on the blog over the next few days.

To start us off I thought I would share this year’s list of [...]

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Last week I published a directory of Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) members who Tweet. Since then I’ve had many additional members ask to be listed, so will be posting a new updated larger list soon.
Today I’m posting a directory of those members who Blog. Again, while most of our members are market researchers, there [...]

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