Authenticity: The New Consumer Sensibility

This is a blog entry by guest blogger, Reena Kapoor of Conifer Consulting.  Reena is a pre-eminent product marketing consultant and this entry shows one of her key values in the work she does with clients. An excellent video talk by Joseph Pine on What Consumers Really Want. He talks about how we've evolved from economy that was based on commodities, [...]

Plain talk about determining sample size

  In preparing for a session of the Power of Market Research class that I teach at UCSC Extension Silicon Valley,  I was brushing up my ‘spiel’ about how to determine sample size for research studies (surveys, focus groups, etc.)…and realize that this is a mysterious concept that could use some plain talk. Sample size is a very important element of [...]