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

This past Friday was a lot of fun in no small l part due to several Next Gen Market Research Top Blogs who participated in another mass blogging event. This time it was a marketing research related April fools gag. Most of the NGMR Top Bloggers who participated posted an agreed upon faux Next Gen [...]

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…and the dumb cousin of text analytics
First, I want to thank all the Top-NGMR Bloggers who participated in the largest ever spontaneous social media collaboration in market research yesterday. It was an interesting experience for me in so many ways.
I’ve been asked several times if I’m going to summarize the results. I’m actually hoping to [...]

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The largest ever spontaneous collaboration in marketing research industry history!
At exactly 9:00am EST this morning, well over 35 NGMR-Top Bloggers agreed to simultaneously post what they believe are 10 important things to consider for the research industry going forward. More specifically, we agreed to each list what 5 things will continue to be “Hot” and [...]

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The Last Blog Post:
If you had one last blog post to write, what would you say?
Better yet, if several respected marketing bloggers secretly agreed to take one moment to share their last thoughts with the world…at the exact same time…without prior warning…what would it look like?
This recent request, inspired by the ideas of Randy Pausch [...]

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Passionate about the Future of Research
In 2007 the Next Gen Marketing Research networking group (NGMR) was founded for like minded research professionals who felt that, while the market had changed and customers had changed, unfortunately consumer insights had not.
Since then several NGMR members have expressed a desire for a badge to help show their support [...]

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You may have noticed I’ve just added a new badge to the blog. Next Gen Market Research blog will be among the very first to carry the new badge.

In the coming months Quirk’s plan to offer badges for:

Featured Blog
Featured Author
Featured Event
Featured Multimedia
Featured Group
Featured Company (with different tiers)

I’ve long felt that NGMR should also have a [...]

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