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

One Digital Metric to Rule Them All - Social Influence

If you’re on Twitter or work with social media I’m sure you’ve heard of Klout. Klout has quickly become the social media influence metric of choice. A few weeks ago I was introduced to their CEO Joe Fernandez, and I thought I’d ask him a few [...]

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Corporate America just can’t seem to get social media or pr
Apparently an employee of Chryslers digital agency accidentally dropped the proverbial ‘F-Bomb’ accidentally in a Tweet. Though I don’t have all the details, I think it was intended as a direct message on another account, but went out as a public message. The agency fired [...]

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NGMR Internet Meme Update & Example
We’ve already received hundreds of visits and TWO submissions within just a couple of days of making the NGMR Meme Contest announcement! That’s really exciting!
I’ve received some questions about when and how often we plan to post the memes we receive. Ideally, we would like to update once a week, [...]

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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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Should your co. have an app for that?
I was asked to comment on MasterCard’s new iPhone application “Priceless” in this week’s Adage. Since publishing of the article I’ve received some questions on whether or not certain companies should be involved in social networks, specifically do they have any business building apps?
Based on our recent research [...]

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Social Media Marketing Must Contain Value

Today I’m talking to Technology, Media & Entertainment Consultant and Host of MediaBytes, Shelly Palmer. I became aware of Shelly after one of our studies was covered in his Media Bytes Vlog. His use of video as a marketing and communications tool is second only to his ability to leverage [...]

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Last week a new twitter trend emerged which got a lot of attention. The “#Unfollowdiddy” tag word on Twitter urged Twitter users to stop following Sean John Combs aka P. Diddy. Much like actor Ashton Kutcher, P. Diddy had been trying to raise a large following on Twitter, and on May 27th reached the 1,000,000 [...]

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What We Can Learn From the 25 Things About Me Lists on Facebook - If Sharing Creates Deeper Friendships, then Sharing Online With Current and Potential Customers Should also Create Deeper Customer Loyalty
For the past several weeks on Facebook using the “Notes” application to write a “25 Things About Me” list have been all the [...]

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Are logo changes like that of Kraft a good ROI?

There was a lot of talk yesterday about the new Kraft Logo. I happened to mention it to John Ferris of Kern Design Group, the firm responsible for the Anderson Analytics logo. “In brief, it is pretty horrible” he said and directed me to UnderConsideration, an [...]

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