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My Totally Unofficial, Brutally Honest 2010 TMRE Awards

Best Speaker: Dawn Lacallade from ComBlu. For content, delivery style and just being so refreshingly honest.

Most (delightfully) unexpected content: Kelley Styring’s presentation on the One-armed Dove Hunt, which is a core piece of research for her current project, “The One-handed World.”

Most amusing: This award goes to the Shopping Track. Apparently, research on shoppers is a rather slippery topic; I heard contradictory data from 3 Shopper Track speakers. I won’t name names. But I sat in on 3 sessions…

November 11, 2010 6 Comments
Market Segmentation

Market Segmentation, Southwest Airlines Style

They used an “a priori” segmentation model. Yup, that’s right. They went into the study with a hypothesized set of segments in mind. The segments were based on behavioral data from their existing customer database. During the presentation, this confused me. We were, after all, in a session on conducting segmentation. The process was defined as qual, leading to quant. But the speaker occasionally referred to the segments they started with…

November 9, 2010 6 Comments

TMRE Through A Practical Lens

This week, I have the honor of being a guest blogger at The Market Research Event (TMRE), one of the top US conferences for market research professionals. On each of the 3 days of conference sessions, I’ll be posting an article on the event’s blog. Time permitting, I will post additional articles here, at www.ResearchRockstar.com/blog.

November 7, 2010 1 Comment

Market Research Budget Planning Tip 2: Conduct a Market Research Audit

If you really want to get the most from your market research investments, the first step is to do a brutally honest audit of your current research resources. Yes, it takes time. But with a structured approach, I have seen it completed in as little as ten business days.

October 25, 2010 1 Comment