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Supercharge Your Branding Strategy With Market Research

Market research helps determine how your brand performs with your customers. This data provides valuable insights that can define your brand strategy. Your research should form the basis of your overall brand strategy. For example, to answer questions like: Where should you advertise for maximum effect? How do you know if your strategy will differentiate …

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Millennials – Gain their trust, earn their spending

Word-cloud-with-important-words-like-Millennials-owners-work-generations-young-technologies We already know that Millennials, or “Gen Y,” are tech savvy, connected, self-centered but, socially-conscious, and educated. And they love to spend. This makes a lot of sense, given that they grew up during one of the most prosperous and stable economic periods in American history. This makes them resilient and optimistic about their …

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How Moderators Use Their Listening Skills To Improve Their Market Research Focus Groups

For almost 20 years, Maricel Dominguez-Watson, owner and CEO of ConneXion Research has conducted hundreds of market research focus groups with people of all ages and backgrounds. Topics have ranged from consumer goods and services, to retail and finances, and more. Whether she’s talked to them about home buying or purchasing a new brand of yogurt, for instance, …

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Multicultural Expansion in the U.S.

As we continue to focus on reaching multicultural consumers, in particularly Hispanics, we are thrilled when we find reliable market research data worthy of sharing, and beneficial for our readers. We recently attended MultiCultural Retail 360 event in CA, we learned several key statistics from Nielsen’s The Multicultural Edge: Rising Super Consumers report. It’s no surprise that …

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Tribal Marketing, Market Research and The Long View

While we live in a fast-paced, technology-driven information age, the way we connect with one another hasn’t changed much from how our ancestors did it by preferring to belong to groups. In fact, we’re hard-wired to arrange ourselves into tribes. This sense of belonging is what makes us human. Seth Godin famously wrote, “A tribe …

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Meet Maricel Dominguez-Watson of ConneXion Research

Today we’d like to introduce you to Maricel Dominguez-Watson. Maricel, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today? It took a while for me to know that I was meant to be an entrepreneur. On average, I lasted about two years in each job and could not understand …

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