A Round-Up of the 2014 GRIT Report, PART 1 The Green Book Guide for Buyers of Marketing Research publishes an annual report based on a survey of research clients and suppliers. The report, known as the GRIT (Greenbook Research Industry Trends) Report, draws on input from over 3000 research professionals, including those from Canada’s Marketing…
Category: Market Research
Lessons from the Super Bowl
By now we’ve all suffered the deflating surprise ending of the Nationwide Super Bowl commercial or heard about it online. We’ve watched #leftshark hit himself in the face under the guise of “dancing” and explained to our children why Missy Elliott’s appearance was way cooler, really, than Katy Perry’s. Many of us have even giggled…
Marketing through Gamification
A brilliant PR colleague of mine, Susan Elford, recently lent me a book on “Gamification” called “The Gamification Revolution” by Gabe Zichermann and Joselin Linder which she picked up at a recent PR conference. At first, my brain was asking, how could games really be that important in the entire sphere of marketing? After all,…
Social Media Monitoring
Is Your Social Media Campaign Working? So you’ve set up your business with a Twitter feed and a Facebook account. You’ve got some videos up on YouTube and you’re all ready to start feeding pictures to Instagram. That’s great! But how do you know if the content that you’re putting out there is going anywhere?…
Marketing to Millennials
Millennial Markets Matter Millennials represent a demographic that has most marketers – and savvy business owners – salivating. Sometimes called Gen Y, this is the generation that define trends. There are more of them than there are Boomers, and their buying power is on the rise. Born between the early 80s and the early 90s,…
Market Positioning
How to Find your Market Position Marketers often talk about “Market Positioning” – but what does it really mean? And do you really need to know what yours is? When some people say “market position” – they mean “share of market” – i.e. are you #1 or #2, in terms of having the largest share…
