Back in the day ‘Fern Bar’s’ were all the rage and investors and entrepreneurs could not open a new ‘fren bar’ concept fast enough to hold all of the customers. Oh by the way the main stream press touted each and everyone as the ‘Next Big Thing’ and if your restaurant was not a ‘fern bar’ you were out of luck. Some of you remember the names T.G.I. Friday’s, Bennigan’s, Houlihan’s, Maxwell’s Plum, Henry Africa’s, and Bobby McGee’s to mention
Read MoreApple is a rarity in history: being not only the world's most valuable company, but also one of its most innovative. A new study from research firm Lab42 t Source: Customers will pay a premium for products they view as 'innovative'
Read MoreChina’s economy has grown seven times as fast as America’s over the last ten years, and the urban middle class alone is bigger than the entire US population today. Perception Research Services (PRS) Source: How is China Different? Insights for Effective Chinese Packaging
Read MoreOctober edition available now! Customer Experience Magazine is packed full of all the latest news and articles from the world of Customer Experience. Source: Finance On The Go
Read MoreWe love it when a client calls us and wants a new Web site. We drool over a client who says they need e-mail marketing or PR. We rush to embrace clients who want a brochure. But very often, when we probe these clients and ask the all-important “Why?” their response is muddled and based on a hunch – an idea that the current state of affairs is not all it’s cracked up to be. Or they say, “Our competitor
Read MoreWhen Greenbook (a guide for buyers of marketing research and the team behind IIEX) called us to talk about redesigning the famous GRIT Report (GreenBook Research Industry Trends) we were immediately inspired. The GRIT Report had been going for 16 editions with little or no change to its design. We’d felt for some time that there was a great opportunity to freshen the design and demonstrate how much the visualization of data in our industry has moved on. The GreenBook
Read MoreColonel Mustard Lucy Davison, and Paul Buckley from GSK, presented their paper ‘I’m with the brand’ at yesterday’s BIG Conference in London. They were thrilled to receive the award for ‘Best Business Thinking’. Lucy and Paul’s presentation was very popular with the audience and the judges alike. The presentation focused on market researchers as B2B brands, and proposes that by behaving like true brands with a philosophy about what they do, research companies can escape the commodity trap, stand out
Read MoreWe love ESOMAR Congress! This year it’s being held in Dublin from the 27th September, and in our humble opinion it’s the highlight of conference calendar. Attending this year will be Colonel Mustard, Lucy Davison, who will be leading her Communicating Insights Workshop. Lucy’s led the workshop in 3 continents and is one of the consistently highest scored workshops on the ESOMAR calendar. You can find out a little more about the workshop in the short video below. Sign up
Read MoreWe don’t know about you, but over here at Keen as Mustard we’re all still unsure who we’re going to vote for in next week’s UK general election. So we asked our brilliant designer Elliot, to come up with an easy way to understand the sentiments of the main political parties. And he has cleverly created this infographic showing the 20 most frequently used words from each party’s manifesto. To download our infographic click here.
Read MoreWhen you hear the words marketing automation, it’s likely to bring to mind the efficient whirring of marketing cogs and wheels, working in perfect harmony to make your business grow whilst you relax and go for a gin and tonic. At least it does me, but look at it a little deeply and things get more fuzzy and ill-defined. Marketing automation is currently a bit of a buzz word, but descriptions on the internet and by marketing automation software companies
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