The Case for Life Stages Over Generation Definitions
“Hearing” vs. “Listening”
I want to comment on something I spoke about with executives last week: We need to start delineating between hearing and listening when it comes to voice of the consumer behavior online. If you are using social listening dashboards, or if you have someone who looks at the reviews for your organization just to respond […]
Feedback Announces the Future of Digital Ethnography with Key Merger
Feedback, the online behavior research pioneer, is excited to announce a merger with a digital health technology company, CareStarter of Austin, TX. Feedback will continue to operate its unique company of twelve years in serving a wide variety of industries including an emphasis in healthcare, higher education, staffing, and more. The merger will allow Feedback […]
Lessons From the Pandemic: Your Employee Attitudes Are Knowable
Let’s continue this conversation about burnout in healthcare and underline an important point: the attitudes of your physicians, nurses, and staff are KNOWABLE. They are sharing. The general public is viewing. And it is impacting recruitment, retention, and facility/brand reputation whether you listen or not. Take for example this TikTok video by a physician about […]
COVID-19 Monitoring Produces Actionable Insights
Feedback’s special brand of market research continues to help hospitals, health systems, physician groups, service lines, facilities, and medical device and pharmaceutical companies for over a decade by providing a comprehensive look at how clients can better recruit, judge reputational risk, and how audiences make decisions and compare services. During the pandemic our insights have […]
Feedback 101: What are the benefits of Digital Ethnography?
Digital ethnography allows you to understand two crucial perspectives: The insights from the sentiment expressed by so many of your audiences online The perspective of those who will look for answers, and what they will find That latter audience is important. If we find incorrect information or an over-emphasis on a particular concept or audience, […]
Feedback 101: What is Digital Ethnography?
Ethnography is a specialized type of research focused on producing descriptions of behavior, and therefore people, cultures, and communities. Digital ethnography is the application of this same purpose, but utilizing all of the behaviors publicly available on the Internet. We leverage the expertise of those with anthropology, sociology, and psychology backgrounds to explore your audiences […]
Demystifying Listening and Busting Two Common Myths
Two things I enjoy hearing: “This audience doesn’t use social media.”“The only opinions you’ll see online are extremes.” Either of these statements put a smile on my face because I know our extensive appendices and presentations can not only easily disprove them, but in fact change and inform a client mind completely and utterly that […]
Are you looking for the X factor in your healthcare marketing?
Between the generational giants of baby boomers and millennials, Generation X is an audience often neglected in healthcare marketers’ strategies. Don’t You Forget About Gen X, an eBook written by SPM Chief Strategy Officer Dan Miers, Dean Browell of Feedback, and Alan Shoebridge of Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, establishes this generation’s crucial role as […]
Using Social Listening in HR
The importance of applying digital ethnographic research to HR People don’t always think of HR when it comes to social listening, but it can be an important facet. Recently we have conducted several studies using our unique market research technique of social listening to help our clients attract talent and retain employees. Working with human […]