Tom H. C. Anderson - More Than Market Research

This week Conjoint and Discrete Choice are on my mind. I read somewhere recently that about 300 such studies are done in the US each year. Not too many I would say.
Made me wonder what proportion of market researchers have ever conducted a conjoint, and among those that do use them what the most popular […]

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I posted a couple times on the Absolut Vodka “Mexico - US PR Fiasco” so when I saw a large display of Absolut Vodka’s new pro GBLT packaging in Kastrup airport in Copenhagen I took this picture. Not sure if it has reached the US market yet? Even if it has I doubt there would […]

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Peppers & Rogers Group Marketing Guru, Don Peppers and Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson discuss consulting, segmentation, CRM, and the current condition of One-to-One marketing.
[Marketing Guru Round Table Discussion #5 ]

Don Peppers
Marketing Guru
This Wednesday, I had a very interesting call with Don Peppers of Peppers & Rogers. I asked him a few questions about his […]

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I got an email today from Peanut Labs about an interesting story in Research Magazine. Forrester recently wrote a report about the panel quality issue and is very optimistic about two products that will machine fingerprint survey takers.
Technically this will eliminate anonymity and it should be possible to know how many times someone takes a […]

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Seth Godin’s Passion and Pop Curves
Perhaps Seth is right? Perhaps viewing our population this way would be more accurate and create more interesting products? What do you think?

Until recently I think we would all have had to focus our work on the pop curve. Though now, with the targeting of category leaders to influence the market via CGM/SNS becoming more popular, perhaps we’ll have more opportunities to conduct research projects among just the “Passionate”. Once you get the passionate on your side as evangelists, going after the pop-market (perhaps with a second product) may be a new popular online marketing strategy.

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Thinking Pink, How Important is it Really? Unless you are Oprah Perhaps not Very
There’s been a lot of talk and several books written the last few years on segmenting by gender and targeting the most important consumer “women”. When I was consulting at Starwood a few years ago they even had the author of “Think […]

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According to McKinsey, High Performing Companies all use NLP and don’t mix their Segmentation strategy with CRM and Direct Mail
In this month’s Research World (ESOMAR) magazine there’s an interesting review of a study done by McKinsey among Europe’s leading companies and how they are coping with market change. The results are very similar to those […]

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Marketing Guru Laura Ries and Tom H. C. Anderson Discuss Branding, Market Research and Segmentation
[Anderson Analytics Marketing Guru Round Table Discussion #4 ]

Laura Ries
Marketing Guru
In an effort to bring highlight innovations, methodological trends, and current thoughts in market research, Anderson Analytics has started an ongoing “round-table discussion” series. The fourth of the series is an interview […]

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KDnuggets Data Mining Guru Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Tom H. C. Anderson
Business Guru Round Table Discussion #3 
(Discussion #1, #2)
 
Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
KDNuggets - Data Mining Guru
If you’ve been working with data mining, knowledge discovery, bioinformatics, or business analytics, for the past few years then you are also likely to be familiar with Gregory. The word Data Mining and […]

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Marketing Guru Jack Trout & Tom H. C. Anderson - More Detail
[Anderson Analytics Marketing Guru Round Table Discussion V#1.2]
 
Last week we received a few follow up emails and calls about the roundtable discussion with Jack Trout. The piece was a summary of a couple calls and emails Tom and Jack exchanged on marketing and consumer insights . However […]

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