Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

As of this morning I am pleased to announce that Next Gen Market Research is among the very first marketing research related groups to go “open”. What does that mean exactly? Well with just about 9,864 members (we’ll break the 10K mark first week of 2011), only good things.

Market Researchers will have an easier time [...]

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Twitter Aggregation For Text Analytics and Data Mining Professionals
Last weekend I set up the NGMR Twitter Daily to summarize tweets by my fellow Next Gen Market Research colleagues. Most of the NGMR members do not know that I also moderate the largest group for Text Analytics professionals on LinkedIn (Data & Text Analytics Professionals - [...]

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Social Network Experiment With Expected Results - Social Media Converging on the ‘Most Popular’ Common Denominator
A couple of weeks ago when LinkedIn launched its new group user interface (UI), most of the moderators of larger LinkedIn Groups, including myself were extremely disappointed. Unlike professional discussion boards of the past where discussion threads had a longer [...]

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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.
Next [...]

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Amusing to me to see few businesses following the follow back etiquette on Twitter that Guy Kawasaki has advocated. A missed opportunity in increasing # of followers an to be courteous to your customers.
Plus with text analytics tools it even gives you the opportunity to listen in on and understand your fans better. Hello! Probably [...]

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An article in AdAge yesterday references a recent model by a Yahoo Scientist who questions ROI of Kim Kardashian’s sponsored Tweets. Apparently they cost $10k/each.
A bit much I admit, but to simply dismiss it as poor digital marketing ROI may be a mistake.
I believe, as with all social media, the equation is value = quantity x [...]

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Looking forward to giving one of the ending talks at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium tomorrow afternoon at 4:00. There’s still time to register for the event if you are in New York/Tri-State area.
I’ll try to focus my talk on sentiment in text analytics and how sentiment can be more than just positive, negative and/or neutral.
Lately [...]

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Today I got a “3 Minute” (Net Promoter) Survey from LinkedIn. The survey was apparently triggered by my most recent request to LinkedIn customer service.
Because I have been using LinkedIn so actively for so many years, I do have far more followers than the average user. This also means I have surpassed their intended limits [...]

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Is the market research industry really interested in next gen innovation and quality?
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, the greatest source for B-B market research sample just closed their doors. That’s right, LinkedIn is no longer offering sample to market research suppliers.
For some this news will probably come as a huge relief. For [...]

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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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Listen and Participate on Blog Talk Radio Show, Live tonight Thursday, March 9th, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm EST!

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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