The focus group is often used in marketing research, in a B2B or B2C context. This exercise is part of a process of qualitative research, for which the success depends on good preparation and rigorous procedures. Here are some points to remember about focus groups.…. Read More
Category: Market Research
Qualitative research is designed to go around a topic and to represent what population to study. When I mention this, our customers tend to believe that qualitative research is not for them. However, it is often very useful and should be considered for research mandates.…. Read More
This may sound funny to you, but if you think about it, there are currently more than 7,000 marketing applications listed in the chart published each year by Scott Brinker of chiefmatech.com. A sea of martech They are listed in six major categories of marketing…. Read More
A few weeks ago, I got my hands on the 2020 version of B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America , a comprehensive study of a field of activity that, as you know, is of particular interest to me. Not tofu but rather, content marketing.…. Read More
Recently, the technology watchdog firm, Gartner, published its famous "Hype Cycle" on marketing-related technologies or, if you prefer, "martech". In case you didn’t know, every year, the US firm publishes its Hypes Cycles for everything related to technology. Five Cycles Marketing, human resources, finance, communications,…. Read More
What is the relevance of social media for B2B? We were asking ourselves this question almost ten years ago in this blog post, with statistics from eMarketer dating back to 2009. Lynda St-Arneault managed to sort out these trends which you will see, are very ‘2010’.…. Read More
The result of the U.S elections in 2016 and, closer to home, the recent Quebec elections, have caused the predictions of several polls to be wrong. Large polling firms predicted that two political groups were on par or close, when it was clearly a majority…. Read More
Note: This blog post is about the number 7 and number 2 posts in our Exo B2B Top 10 blogs of 2016 I was quite happy to find out that 2 of my texts are among the top 10 Exo posts in 2016. I felt…. Read More
The future of marketing will no doubt be incredibly interesting as it is trending towards the dematerialized (cloud) with an approach centred on the human experience. All this is possible thanks to a crucial element: data. It plays a major role as we first need to collect gargantuan…. Read More
Did you know: Over 70% of Quebec's exports go to the United States and the majority, to NY State? 4500 Quebec companies do business in the US? New York is only a 1 hour flight from Montreal? This is exactly what Jean-Claude Lauzon, the Delegate General of…. Read More