Marketing and research budgets are fluctuating with the rest of the current economy. With this kind of uncertainty consumer researchers are looking for solutions to boost innovation and product development while keeping an eye on…
Nostalgia, Sadvertising And Values-Based Marketing
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor “What is important to me? Who is important to me? What do I stand for? And how can I live according to my values?” These kinds of questions are crucial for…
What Your Data Isn’t Telling You: Troves Of Dark Data Present Problems And Opportunities For Big Businesses
By Mary Meehan Consumers are the engine of the fickle, complex, trillion-dollar global economy. They demand that companies understand their wants and needs well enough to make products and services that people will buy, lest…
Zoom! How We Used Text Analytics To Quickly Compare Top Car Brands
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor Online research is increasingly part of the consumer’s car purchase decision, and we’ve used Metametrix to highlight different values associated with 10 top car brands, based on online content. These values…
So What Next? : Choose Your Own Adventure
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor You run an analysis, get results, and now what? What are your next steps based on what you’re hearing or reading? Any tool is a starting point, and often, the next…
Now What Do I Do?: Explore the Unexpected to Understand The Why
By Natalie Haynes, Contributor One of the most challenging aspects of research is synthesizing data and boiling it down to actionable insights. And as more and more data is available, taking in all of that data and…
2019’s Top Trends To Watch: The Most Important Trends For Businesses And Consumers For 2019
It seems like just yesterday that we were pondering a Tech Reckoning and wondering what the Me Too movement would mean for 2018. But no. It was not yesterday. We’ve been living in the Upside-Down…