Goodbye Summer Reruns and Cable Reality TV, the New Fall TV Season is Here!

They’re back! The first day of the Fall TV lineup has begun for the 2013-2014 season kicking off this Monday, September 24th. Right out of the ratings gate, NBC “wins…

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Is it Back to School Advertising Time Already?

Just when you are finally adjusting to the summer heat; the commercials, advertisements and new store displays bombard you. Who hasn’t seen the chalkboard or book bag promo? Even the…

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In-person Focus Groups are Challenged by the Benefits of Online Research

Recently Greenbook published a blog by Greg Heist about five things that will become obsolete in marketing research. As a technology-driven online research company, we are digging on this blog….

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Hispanic America is a Powerful Growing Market

As we gear up to celebrate the Red, White and Blue for the 4th of July, it’s not only Americans born in the USA who celebrate but also Hispanic America….

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Tesla Motors is Disrupting Current Business Models and Embracing Showrooming

Mindspot Research has posted a white paper about a phenomenon called Showrooming. This occurs when people shop in-store and then purchase online. We chose Tesla Motors as an example of…

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Cable, Bundled Contracts, and Linear TV are Ripe for Disruption

The Mindspot Research theme for the month of June is disruption. To disrupt is aptly a transitive verb defined as to break apart; to throw into disorder. And we believe…

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The David Bowie Innovation Process

We Can Learn a lot about Developing an Innovation Process from David Bowie. I’m not kidding. An unlikely place I found a way to re-invent my innovation process was reviewing…

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Customer Loyalty is the New Innovation

I’m not going to tell you a story about an experience that I had as a customer recently that WOW’d me. We all know that WOW experience-the WOW Factor– the…

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Whole Food for thought –know your corporate and personal values

When I write a new blog it is usually about business, marketing research, or something I found particularly cool. It could be the latest and greatest technology, or even the…

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Social Media Strategy for the 21st Century

I watched “Interview with a Vampire” recently, and I admit I have watched it more than twice. I read the book by Anne Rice when I was in college and…

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