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

I certainly am, and that’s why OdinText will sponsor this year’s Useful Business Analytics Summit in Boston, June 10-11. Perhaps what makes the event most unique is the promise that you won’t see one single salesy presentation - not even one of our excellent OdinText case studies. Why not? Vendors aren’t allowed to present at the Summit, speakerwise this is a CLIENT SIDE ONLY event

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Top 10 Influencers Reveal Their Pet Peeves
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Part V)
While I don’t think there’s one right or wrong way to do social media, there certainly are some things that many of us agree can be annoying. Today, our influencers share their biggest social media pet peeves. Most tended to fall into one [...]

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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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Today I got a “3 Minute” (Net Promoter) Survey from LinkedIn. The survey was apparently triggered by my most recent request to LinkedIn customer service.
Because I have been using LinkedIn so actively for so many years, I do have far more followers than the average user. This also means I have surpassed their intended limits [...]

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