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 […]

What Gen X Can Teach Us About COVID & the Holidays

Over at the SPM Communications blog, Feedback’s Dean Browell remarks with his Don’t You Forget About Gen X: One Generation’s Crucial Role in Healthcare co-authors Dan Miers and Alan Shoebridge on how Generation X and others are dealing with this year’s holiday challenges. An excerpt: The judgement and skepticism findings help tell the further story […]

The TikTok Healthcare Employee Scare

Social listening – real, behavioral social listening – is so important right now in healthcare with so many fragile fronts. Take this example, which signal boosted a #TikTok but whose comments also lead to the review assault of the facility on Google and beyond. Digital ethnography can catch and sleuth out the sources of this […]

COVID-19 Consumer Behavior Trends & Predictions

Hitting some top lines of consumer behavior and near-term predictions Given the projects we’ve been working on across the country, we wanted to share some top trends in consumer behavior and near-term predictions: Not So Fast Willing a reopen hasn’t necessarily brought back confidence. An incredibly suspicious public has now become default cautious. What was […]

Key Consumer Insights for Reopening

Research identifies important reopening topic Note: This post was originally written in early May of 2020 and instantly became prescient for the road ahead. We revisit it here to show the implications of listening to your audiences carefully. Our audiences (internal and external) are in flux but they are acutely aware that we are too. […]

How is COVID-19 Impacting Food Purchasing Behaviors?

Our current crisis provides unique challenges for Grocery and CPG brands Grocery shopping and food purchasing habits are significantly changing due to the pandemic. What will the short-term and long-term effects be? How should brands pivot? Let’s consider what we can learn about consumer behavior through advanced digital ethnography: Families/ Shopping: – How anxiety and […]

Keeping an Eye on Banking Behaviors During the Crisis

Our current crisis provides unique challenges for the financial service industry Looking at consumer finance and banking, let’s explore how audiences may pivot in nuanced ways during and after this crisis. All of this could be seen by applying digital ethnography and listening to the voice of the consumer as they talk to peers right […]

How is COVID-19 Impacting Packaging Habits?

Our current crisis provides unique challenges for packaging brands and those that rely on them How could packaging pivot during and after the pandemic? Let’s consider what we can learn about consumer habits during this unusual time through social listening and digital ethnography: The Opening– Package opening processes: How are habits in opening mail and […]

Keeping an Eye on Healthcare Behaviors During the Crisis

We’ve conducted several weeks of healthcare research within multiple states across the country, so we thought we’d share some thoughts around what we’re seeing and what you really, really need to be watching for in the nuance of all of this. And there certainly is nuance. Our research (qualitative online behavior – “digital ethnography”) is […]