Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Will we be “Veeting” instead of “Tweeting” soon?
Last week after becoming the first market researcher to hit the 50,000 follower mark on Twitter, I’ve decided to take a bit of a break. Will still tweet, but it’s time to see what else is new in social media.
One of the trends I see coming is greater [...]

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GroupThink Never Before Seen Clip and Exclusive Interview just for NGMR
Last month I posted about a new web TV comedy series about Market Research which was being discussed on NGMR. GroupThink is so cool because it allows us market researchers to get a humorous glimpse a la ‘The Office’, of what the outside world may think [...]

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Data Privacy on the Web?
As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the market research industry were identified. Several of the speakers at the event were interviewed about what they thought about them.
One of the topics which I think will become increasingly important is privacy, especially as it relates [...]

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Two North America Talks on Text Analytics
Writing today about two upcoming events where I will be speaking about next gen market research and specifically text analytics. This coming week I will be speaking at MRIA in Ottawa, Canada. The event will be at the Ottawa Shearton on February 18th. More info below.

Also, this coming month, [...]

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After founding the Foundation for Transparency in Offshoring (FTO), a couple of months ago, I find it has been rather heavily discussed on market research related social media.
A few of the criticisms have been surprisingly unjust, and clearly not based on fact. After thinking about it I found this rather encouraging. As esteemed psychologist Charles [...]

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Miss us? - We’re back!
Glad Twitter turned my account @TomHCAnderson and Anderson Analytics’ account @InfoaAdvantage back on today. Unfortunately they deleted a few thousand of my followers, but easy come easy go.

I got a few questions yesterday, so thought I would elaborate briefly on the last post about Twitter and why I Tweet. I said [...]

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My views on using Twitter for marketing and market research
I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I’ve started getting a few pings via Facebook, LinkedIn and email wondering why I’m missing from Twitter all of a sudden. As is the case for many ‘power users’ of various social networks, the reward for encouraging use [...]

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Passing the Research Baton to the Consumer
When I saw the new Tempur-Pedic commercial on TV just now I thought it was fantastic. From Anderson Analytics’ research on social media I know that today’s consumers get their product info from social media. Discussion boards and social networks are valued even more than friend and family opinions.
 
Enter [...]

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Dana Stanley, author of Blogus Operandi and host of Podus Operandi posted a podcast interview with me today. He asked me a few questions about next gen market research, online research, data and text mining as well as social media research. You can listen to the mp3 on Podus Operandi here:

There is also a transcript [...]

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Earlier this week with the launch of Research Radio I mentioned that one of the threads in our Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR) discussion board on LinkedIn a new thread entitled “TV Show About Market Research?” has become very popular with over 100 posts.
It seems that perhaps there would be enough material for either [...]

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