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Alan Nazarelli
Recent Posts
Bay Area Research: The Purple Cow Has Left the Building - Part 2
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Nov 10, 2020 @ 04:11 PM
In this installment, let's focus on implementation. To recap from part 1, when Seth Godin first published his book, the...
The Buyer's Journey Part 2: When There Is No "Buy"
by Alan Nazarelli on Mon, Nov 09, 2020 @ 06:29 PM
In our last blog post, we introduced a new model for marketers to navigate the buyer’s journey. Briefly, we talked how the...
How to Price your Product in a Competitive Market
by Alan Nazarelli on Wed, Oct 07, 2020 @ 06:53 PM
Keep your soap and washcloth within arms reach; figuring out the pricing strategy for your new product can be a sticky...
Big Data vs. Big Insights: What to do with the Data.
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Oct 06, 2020 @ 09:15 PM
While enterprises have all this BIG data in exabytes and zettabytes of storage, what to do with it remains a quandary.
Bay Area Research Blog: The Purple Cow has left the building
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Oct 06, 2020 @ 06:54 PM
When Seth Godin first published his seminal book, neither Facebook nor Twitter was around. The idea then was to create...
Introducing a Brand-Building Tool called MarketBuilder
by Alan Nazarelli on Thu, Sep 17, 2020 @ 07:29 PM
We constantly strive to provide leading edge market research services and methodologies and have recently launched a...
The Buyer's Journey 3: Feelings...Nothing More Than Feelings
by Alan Nazarelli on Wed, Sep 09, 2020 @ 07:25 PM
In a great act of "reverse delegation", our marketing intern assigned me the task this summer of re-thinking the buyer's...
Brands Are Like Faberge Eggs
by Alan Nazarelli on Wed, Sep 09, 2020 @ 07:10 PM
Brands are like Faberge eggs - precious and delicate.
Google, Nest and the internet of "EVERYTHING"!
by Alan Nazarelli on Mon, Sep 07, 2020 @ 08:27 PM
Google's purchase of Nest signifies a major direction in where consumer technologies are headed.
The conversation around...
How to Create Your “Pull” Marketing Strategy
by Alan Nazarelli on Mon, Sep 07, 2020 @ 01:25 PM
How can your company re-align their marketing strategy to the a new customer-driven sales paradigm; “more pull, less push"?...
Technology Market Research: The Importance of Domain Expertise
by Alan Nazarelli on Sat, Sep 05, 2020 @ 09:21 PM
A question I often get asked is about the value of technology domain or industry expertise when delivering market research...
Technology Market Validation Case Study: New Product Testing with Market Research
by Alan Nazarelli on Thu, Aug 06, 2020 @ 08:34 PM
At Silicon Valley Research Group (SVRG), we spend a lot of time applying our market research techniques to new products,...
The consumerization of Big Data
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Aug 04, 2020 @ 08:32 PM
Yes, you heard that right. COBD. Now that IT has been consumerized, Big Data is next to be consumerized.
“The Consumer is Changing Us”-Three Game Changing Disciplines every Marketer MUST Embrace
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Aug 04, 2020 @ 01:24 PM
"The consumer is changing us". So says Andrew House, head of Sony's Playstation division as the company unveils...
Make Your Next Focus Group An "Unfocus Group"
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Jul 14, 2020 @ 07:07 PM
Does Google value beat Microsoft Office?
by Alan Nazarelli on Wed, Jul 08, 2020 @ 09:20 PM
According to this Wall Street Journal article (see link below), Google is aggressively targeting Microsoft's enterprise...
Customer Insights: The Phone Itch Cycle
by Alan Nazarelli on Wed, Jul 08, 2020 @ 01:24 PM
The Phone Itch Cycle
Tendency to Quantify Qualitative Data
by Alan Nazarelli on Sun, Jul 05, 2020 @ 09:17 PM
One concerning trend we have found with market research vendors and end-clients recently is the tendency to “quantify”...
The Blue Moon Orange and Your Marketing Message
by Alan Nazarelli on Tue, Jun 23, 2020 @ 10:30 AM
This “under the hood” glimpse is sadly missing from technology marketing today.