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The new second opinion: How digital engagement is changing healthcare

Evolving digital capabilities allow healthcare providers to develop better, more personalized care for patients. While the fascinating technological advances are fun to talk about (care to implant a microchip of your medical history?), the more pressing side of technology is how it changes human behavior: how technology reframes the process of finding and using healthcare as patients find new ways to
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Five Rules of US Consumer Engagement for Imported Foods

Imported brands have challenges that ‘native’ American brands can’t imagine. To begin with, your branding is likely to be dictated by a global home office with little insight into the American market. And for many brands, although the U.S. looks like an enormous pot of opportunity, with, at last count, 682 different grocery chains, the splintered distribution system is simply
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Focus Groups in the Digital Age

A conversation with Anne Brown, moderator with JSC Consumer Insights, Inc. AC:  Clients often ask us for help choosing the right type of research – and new methods are coming out all the time.  Our recent qualitative work with you and JSC led to significant changes in marketing strategy – and tangible successes.  So why does it sometimes feel old-fashioned
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Conversion Funnel games – Does Google’s Zero Moment of Truth add anything?

Okay, for all of us trying to rewrite the conversion funnel, reshape it into some semblance of a Dr. Seuss flugelhorn,  (Check out this attempt — I know I saw this in the Grinch Who Stole Christmas!), Google introduces…actual research! Here’s the link to Google’s report : http://google-zmot.appspot.com/google-zmot.pdf And here’s what you’ll find out: Google partnered with Shopper Sciences http://www.shoppersciences.com to research 5000 shoppers and
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