The Peril of Stale Personas
If there is one type of work we love doing that is the most crucial, it might be creating or updating personas or segmentation. If your personas are 3+ years old (and especially pre-pandemic), that should be a massive warning sign that you are basing decisions on severely outdated data. Another red flag: if any […]
Top 5 Recruitment and Retention Warning Signs
Turnover is high, morale is mercurial, and the annual employee survey struggles to get meaningful responses (or responses at all)… sound familiar? In our research of workforces all over the world we’ve found the following top five warning signs in the behavior: #1 They Say the Quiet Part Out LoudGoing back in time isn’t an […]
B2B and Social Listening: The Secret Advantage
Often when we think of social listening and online behavior we immediately conjure visions of consumer social media and TikTok-scrolling teens – but social media, broadly, has also been the domain of B2B audiences for decades. That’s right – decades. For much of that Feedback has been finding and drawing insights from B2B audiences for […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]