Search-driven analytics platform KnowledgeHound recently launched a new product feature, Connectors, to integrate third party survey sources with its platform – and SurveyMonkey was the first. Users of SurveyMonkey and similar survey sources can now import all of their team’s data into a single place for easier exploration and analysis. To support the launch, we needed a content campaign that would not only generate awareness and interest, but also generate leads and sign ups. We also wanted to promote KnowledgeHound
Read MoreOn the 25th September, we were thrilled to join Women in Research and Logica to announce the winners of the Best Places to Work award at the ESOMAR Congress in Berlin. Greenberg Strategy came in first place, while EMI Research Solutions was named as runner-up. Keen as Mustard, Logica and WIRe created the award to celebrate companies who do the most to support women working within the industry. The award judges noted that Greenberg Strategy stood out from the other
Read MoreThis year, we’ve been working with Women in Research (WIRe) and Logica (formerly Koski Research) to help find the best MRX workplace for women. The idea was born at the ESOMAR Congress WIRe lunch last year in Amsterdam. WIRe had already planned some research with agency Logica to find out the qualities, experiences and environments that women in MRX want most from their workplace. We at Keen as Mustard wanted to take this one step further, to raise awareness of,
Read MoreFrom email marketing, to SEO, to blogs and thought leadership, there are numerous techniques to consider when building your company’s marketing strategy. But which of these techniques will get your company’s message noticed by the clients you’re trying to attract? Are there any key techniques for standing out in a competitive market? To help answer these questions, we invited three client-side researchers, Begonia Fafian, Western Europe knowledge and insights director at Coca Cola, Sonia Whitehead, head of research at BBC
Read MoreIf you are passing Berlin in September, don’t miss Colonel Mustard Lucy Davison’s session at ESOMAR Congress where she will be presenting with Begonia Fafian of The Coca-Cola Company. Lucy and Begonia will be sharing the results of their pilot internal communications project to find out how to improve internal communications for the insights team. The Great Communication Experiment looked at how to influence broader stakeholders within the business, those who are not directly involved in insight projects but who
Read MoreIn collaboration with Keen as Mustard Marketing and Koski Research, WIRe has launched the Best Places to Work Award, to both honor and raise awareness of companies who are doing their utmost to promote the well-being of their female employees. In early 2018, WIRe conducted an industry workplace survey to establish the qualities, experiences, and environments most important to employees in the market research industry. These factors have been used as the criteria for the award. The study found that
Read MoreMustard’s Creative Director Simon Dunn joined Priscilla Mckinney, President and CEO of Little Bird Marketing (based in Joplin, Missouri), for a chat to be included as an episode in Priscilla’s podcast ‘Ponderings from the Perch’. Topics of discussion included Simon’s role as a designer at Keen as Mustard, the importance of time and effort in marketing strategies, and even the origins of the name ‘Keen as Mustard’ (for our American readers, it means extremely enthusiastic). In the podcast episode, Simon
Read MoreBy Jennifer Redfern (originally posted on RWConnect) ‘The strategic advice we give our clients is how to be better marketers, so we have to at least be efficient marketers ourselves.’ This comment, made by Greg Clayton, Managing Director of Kadence International during the agency panel of Insights Marketing Day London on the 11th May, emphasises an important industry-wide problem – the ironic fact that market research companies rarely practice what they preach when it comes to their own marketing. Despite
Read MoreHere at Keen as Mustard, we’ve teamed up with WIRe (Women in Research) to help acknowledge and reward the best place for women to work in MRX. WIRe aims to inspire women in market research to advance their voices in the industry while providing the tools for professional development and opportunities for building connections. To achieve this, it’s important to establish what employees value in their workplace. So, WIRe has launched its Workplace Study, which will establish the experiences and
Read MoreBy Jennifer Redfern (originally posted on RW Connect) According to Jacob Ayoub of Salesforce, ‘Insights driven business will take $1.2 trillion a year by 2020’ (Forester Research). I’ll admit that I’m not sure what proportion of that figure accounts specifically for market research. However, after just three months in the industry I’m pretty convinced that market research is increasingly crucial in informing marketing and business decision making. Being offered a ticket to IIeX Europe therefore seemed like a great opportunity to get my head
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