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Let’s Dish about Foodservice Pros: Q&A with Amy Kleppinger, Consumer and Customer Insights Community Manager at Heinz

Jen R.

Jen Reddy, SVP of Global Marketing at Communispace, chats with Amy Kleppinger, Community Manager for The Heinz Consumer and Customer Insights team to learn more about the Let’s Dish online community.MORE…

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Simplicity: Consumers desire to escape chaos

Nicole H.

Consumers we talk to on a daily basis, express the desire, or indeed the need, to de-clutter their lives and move toward simplicity.MORE…

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Maligned but Motivated: A Day in the Life of a Mobile Millennial

Julie W.S.

“Why do millennials have such a bad reputation?” a millennial plaintively asked in a recent mobile ethnography project that we ran on behalf of the Advertising Research Foundation for the Re:think 2013 conference just winding up. “I just read another …MORE…

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Feeling Better? How Emotional Insight Drives Innovation

Julie W.S.

Flu season notwithstanding, we all know how to feel well. As human beings with limbic systems, we generate and manage an abundance of feelings during every waking moment and while we’re asleep. But as marketers and researchers, our challenge is …MORE…

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Beyond Market Research: Building Intuition [Video]

James B.
Siobhan D.

In a recent meeting, the head of Client Services here at Communispace, Siobhan Dullea proposed an exciting vision for companies who are building-in long term engagement with their customers”.

“There is a real opportunity for companies who have successfully developed that on-going, deep and trusted relationship,” Siobhan said. “to take that relationship beyond the day to day market research activity and to start building intuition into their organization.”MORE…

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Giving Consumers a C-Level Seat in the Boardroom

Amanda F.

First Best Buy. Then Yahoo! And now, JP Morgan.

Each day, a new CEO/Chairman being fired/let go/resigning (choose one) from their post. At first I was sure the person who was programming the elevator Captivate! was playing some sort of joke. Nope. And I won’t comment or insert my personal opinion on whether their allegations were simple oversights or terrible ethical decisions. There is, however, one thing I feel like I can ascertain (without ever being one myself), regardless of whether you are a good or bad CEO – it’s a tough (insert explicative word of choice here) job.MORE…

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Micro Center wants to know how they can get more of my game-related purchases

Chris O.

Today, I received an email from Micro Center asking for my help: they want to understand how they can win more of my video game purchases. If I still had time to play computer games (besides the occasionally Civilization IV bender) I’d probably be more useful. But, I figured, let’s see what we can do.

I like Micro Center.

I like that it’s the closest I can get to Akihabara without having to fly to Japan. I like that when I was helping my brother build a PC for his video-editing business, there were people there who were excited to help us build a monster of a machine – and who were truly knowledgeable about the pros and cons of faster dual-core versus slower quad-core processors. MORE…

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Disclaimer: Based on a true story

Stephanie B.

Stories surround us, from coworkers recapping a weekend away, to smells and tastes, to memories we acquire throughout our life. As humans we inherently wear the hat of storyteller and we weave our experiences into truth and fiction; depending on who you are, that title also comes with varying degrees of embellishment. For better or for worse we are all liars.

“Scientists have discovered that the memories we use to form our own life stories are boldly fictionalized.” — Jonathan GotschallMORE…

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