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post image Business The Myth of the Poverty Premium There is a widespread view that people in poverty pay more for their products and services than richer… 2 May 2013 post image B2B Why do people join B2B communities? I have spent the last couple of weeks in Australia as part of my role in Vision Critical… 26 April 2013 post image Big Data Think inside out, not outside in One of the things that marketers, researchers, and administrators are often encouraged to do is to try to… 21 April 2013 post image Market Research How many ways is mobile being used in Qual? As mentioned before (here and here), Navin William, Reg Baker, and I are producing a mobile marketing research… 13 April 2013 post image Behavioural Economics Behavioural Economics is mostly a quant thing Something strange seems to have happened in the world of market research since the publication of Kahneman’s Thinking,… 7 April 2013 post image Big Data Feedback from the MRS Conference in London This week’s MRS Conference in London was one of the best events I have been to in the… 22 March 2013 post image Market Research Is your mobile market research ethical? As I have mentioned before, Navin Williams, Reg Baker, and I are producing a course on mobile marketing… 17 March 2013 post image Market Research Two disruptive ideas for a disruptive conference This year’s MRS conference looks to be the most unsettling for years. The conference includes a range of… 12 March 2013 post image Market Research Is it a bad thing that 80% of new products fail? Posted by Ray Poynter, March 2013 In a recent LinkedIn discussion, one contributor suggested that 80% of new… 7 March 2013 post image Market Research A Short History of Mobile Marketing Research Navin Williams and I are creating an MMR (mobile marketing research) module for the University of Georgia’s MRII’s… 1 March 2013