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

Have you been given bad social media advice?
(10 Top Social Media Influencers Series Part VII)
In regard to social media, many of us can agree to disagree. Sometimes, especially in relation to PR, it seems ‘experts’ outnumber clients. While I believe data and text mining hold the key to unlocking a large part of the question [...]

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Two weeks ago, I told you I planned to do a series of interviews with the 10 most influential people in social media I could find. Doing an interview with 10 people, even a relatively short/fun one, takes a lot more time than I thought. I’m really an unstructured data analyst during the day and [...]

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Top Market Researcher Twitter Contest

This week ResearchLive Magazine which I believe is affiliated with the UK Market Research Organization (MRS), together with Jon Puleston of research firm GMI, is hosting a Twitter contest among market researchers. I was one of 20 market researchers nominated as the most active tweeting about marketing research. If you are [...]

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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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Spotify via @Klout
Many of you probably have heard of @Klout, the online tool that measures social media influence. As an “@Klout Ambassador” with a fairly good Klout score I’ve started getting a lot of special Perks from them. These include early screening of new TV shows, restaurants and promotional schwag via mail in hopes [...]

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Marketing Research Industry Influence, Sentiment and Passion

On Tuesday I posted the chart above which NetBase had sent me based on a discussion we had on the NGMR LI Board about marketing research association online buzz. I had some questions in regard to the chart, and it turned out many of you did as well. Therefore [...]

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Q&A with Guy R. Powell - What’s the obsession with social media and the ROI question?
Last week at the Tech Driven Market Research Event I participated in an expert panel on social media with author of ROI of Social Media, Guy Powell. The panelists were rather diverse in background, so unfortunately we really didn’t have [...]

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Interview on Influence with Social Media Citizens
I was interviewed by Giedrius Ivanauskas on behalf of both Social Media Citizens and Social Marketing Forum earlier today. I found his questions rather interesting, as they’re not the type of things I typically get asked by market researchers. It was sort of interesting thinking about the questions both [...]

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Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) “Make Research Meme-ingful” Contest

Attention all Next Generation Market Researchers: here’s your chance to prove that researchers can be just as creative, witty and new media-savvy as our marketing, advertising, and PR counterparts - while also making a statement about an important research industry cause or issue by producing viral content.
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