Brand esSense – two books in one from Neil Gains
Neil Gains has been kind enough to send me a copy of his new book, Brand esSense and I wanted to share my thoughts about this useful book. In the title to my post I say it is two books […]
Stop asking when mobile will be the next big thing, it happened a year or two ago!
As I and others (see this great post by Reg Baker in 2011) have been pointing out, people have been saying mobile is the next big thing for over 15 years, even in the days when that meant SMS, or […]
How many people will be using smartphones to access the web in 2017?
Almost every week there is a key discussion in the NewMR LinkedIn group, tackling a specific topic of interest. This week I asked “In 3 years, what % of adults will have a mobile phone, how many will be smartphones, […]
Staying up to date with trends in mobile and mobile market research
As part of the book on Mobile Market Research that we are working on we are including some tips on how to stay up to date in terms of mobile market research. Here is the list we have at the […]
Why is so much customer satisfaction research so unsatisfying?
When I talk to research users, one of the most common themes I hear is dissatisfaction with customer satisfaction research (and its new expansion into customer experience). Key problems appear to be: It tends to be based on people’s memory […]
The Mobile Players in 2014 & Mobile MR – Navin Williams
Posted by Navin Wlliams, CEO MobileMeasure Consultancy Ltd, Shanghai, China. Editors note: Navin is known as a leading expert of mobile market research and has been posting his forecasts for a few years and kindly shared his 2014 forecast with […]
Could Google be the next Standard Oil or AT&T?
Post by Ray Poynter, 11 January 2014 Google’s standing with privacy groups and legislators has probably never been lower. Problems include: the recent news that some of Google’s activities have been ruled illegal by four countries (France, Netherlands, Germany, and […]
Does this summarise mobile qual for you?
As part of the book on mobile market research that Sue York, Navin Williams and I are writing we need to give an overview of mobile qual, before going into depth. Do you think the image below helps? Thoughts? What […]
How many of your Twitter followers are fake?
Have you ever stopped to wonder how many of your Twitter followers are fake? Or, more importantly, when you or your client are buying endorsements from somebody with a mega number of followers, are they real. Or, if you are […]
“most published research findings are probably false” – John Ioannidis
The worlds of academic and commercial research are being riven at the moment with concerns and accusation about how poor much of the research and conclusions that have been published are. This particular problem is not specifically about market research, […]