Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

For those of you who missed the expert social media panel on marketing to women on Tuesday, I have updated yesterdays post with a link to the recording.
Also today wanted to share a link to some gender specific factoids/statistics from one of Anderson Analytics recent social media studies as well as the 10 tips below [...]

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Women are more social than men, especially in the fast growing world of online social media. From Twitter and Facebook to web forums and blogs, 65% of the virtual voices heard today belong to women, the same [...]

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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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I’ve frequently commented on the problems associated with using social networks for marketing or market research. Examples have included API problems, having your widgets/applications turned off, having your twitter account turned off, having data that you have paid for deleted as a tool is discontinued without notice, having your profile images deleted or having your [...]

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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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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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Special Research Business Report Artilce on Next Gen Market Research
In the current issue of RFL’s Research Business Report Bob Lederer wrote a very flattering article about my thoughts on Next Gen Market Research and some of the work we’ve been doing in this area; bridging traditional market research (like online survey and focus groups) with [...]

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Later this week I will be posting the report from the survey just conducted among n=855 members of the Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR). While the entire report in PPT won’t be available until this Thursday, I thought I would start sharing a chart or two here on the blog before then.
Below are the [...]

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Today a quick update for the Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) group members who read the blog. We now have a location outside of LinkedIn at http://www.nextgenmr.com.

As you may already know The Next Gen Market Research Group (NGMR) is an invitation only networking group for MR professionals with 7+ years of experience who are interested [...]

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