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Contributing Authors: Michael B. Snead – Business Advisor @ Metric Centric George Assimakopoulos – Managing Principal @ Metric Centric If you were a student in the mid-2000s, you probably remember being told Wikipedia was off-limits. Like the cookie jar you weren’t supposed to touch, it sat at the top of every Google search — tempting, […]
Luxury has a terrible reputation. It starts with the word: The etymology of the word remains rooted in the notion of excess. And excess does reign — from the air miles involved in the annual cycle of fashion “weeks” (perhaps permanently disrupted by COVID) to the world of yachts and eye-popping shopping excursions carried on in private, on Instagram, or […]
Faced with an increasingly turbulent world, it is more important than ever for companies to pay attention to what their consumers are saying about them and use the insights acquired to continually improve and maintain a competitive advantage. B2B organizations recognize that valuable customer feedback can be sourced beyond focus groups, questionnaires and surveys. Today, […]
As restrictions around the world ease and consumer spending begins to reappear, the buyer’s journey needs to adapt to the next new normal. Even as the COVID-19 crisis continues, consumer behavior has changed with lasting implications. The ripple effect caused by these changes can force any business to think and operate differently in order to […]
Value. Fear. Curiosity. These are the top three ways we saw clients and the marketplace interact with sentiment and perception data in 2019. Conversations across sectors are now littered with “data driven decision-making” comments. However, what that means in practice varies widely from the largest corporations to the smallest startups. After hundreds of conversations this […]
Summer Fridays may be in full effect, but that doesn’t mean the expectations of your clients are any slower or lower. As August heat and humidity rises, so does the opportunity to influence or shift how metrics are integrated into fall campaigns, and goals for Q4 and year-end. Are there opportunities to consider new, quantitative […]
Data is central to our decision-making process. I’m not sure we need/want to know that. Both of these statements typically happen in the same conversation with executive and marketing leadership when discussing data use by their organization. Public, private, agency, nonprofit, government, university… the type of organization doesn’t matter, the sentiment is the same. We […]
People-watching at a coffee shop can tell you a lot about the surrounding neighborhood. The demographics of the customers and non-customers, the ebb and flow of commuter traffic, the dynamics of other nearby businesses and competitors, or even potential changes that are starting to impact the community. However, when you watch and for how long you watch can […]
Perception matters. Even for the U.S. government and its 445 federal agencies. When you peel back the perception of government organizations as being large, unresponsive, and disconnected there are real teams of people who endeavor to fulfill their mission and serve the American people. The disconnect between agencies and the citizens they serve has a […]