December 30, 2010 by Sean Copeland | Categories: Blog
SEAN COPELAND TO RE-WRITE THIS FOR THE ABACUS BLOG!!! Why do surveys continue to be more than 20 minutes long with complex matrices/grids, long multiple response lists, and very broad open ends? What other options do we have as market researchers? Every once and a while someone brings up the age-old market research problem of [...]
December 27, 2010 by David | Categories: Blog
Tonight I spent a great evening with my parents watching part of the gift my sister and I got my dad for Christmas. He’s a huge Bee Gees fan so I found this documentary on their career. Luckily he hadn’t bought it yet! I have to admit that I enjoy the Bee Gees and have [...]
December 21, 2010 by Sean Copeland | Categories: market research events
What? The MRIA (Market Research & Intelligence Association) is once again holding its one-day NetGain 5.0 Social Media Conference in downtown Toronto! NOTE: Plan to register quickly because this who’s who in research event has SOLD OUT in the last two years with a seating capacity of 150. Why? For market research the Internet has brought [...]
December 21, 2010 by David | Categories: Blog
As we gear down here at Abacus Data for a short Christmas break, I wanted to take a few moments to thank everyone out there who has supported us and given us a chance. I’m especially grateful to all the Canadians who responded to our surveys. Our work isn’t possible without the participation of thousands [...]
December 20, 2010 by Sean Copeland | Categories: Blog
SEAN COPELAND TO RE-WRITE THIS FOR THE ABACUS RESEARCH BLOG! MARKETING BLOGS INSTEAD OF MARKET RESEARCH BLOGS It’s time to see what I predict will be the top 10 market research blogs for 2011! For those of you that haven’t read my previous post about how I came to decide on the 25 blogs [...]
December 20, 2010 by David | Categories: News
Abacus Data’s CEO was on the Charles Adler Show talking about Abacus’ survey on immigration in Canada. Listen to their conversation from the iTunes podcast library – Dec 9th p3. Coletto on Adler – Dec 9th p3
December 17, 2010 by David | Categories: News
John Ivison December 16, 2010 – 8:41 pm National Post If Michael Ignatieff is ever wounded by the insults and reversals of political life, he hides it well. Neither he nor his wife, Zsuzsanna, has any reason to welcome the press to Stornoway, the Opposition leader’s residence. Yet, Mr. Ignatieff is in a relaxed mood [...]
December 16, 2010 by Sean Copeland | Categories: Blog
SEAN COPELAND TO RE-WRITE THIS FOR THE ABACUS RESEARCH BLOG! MARKETING BLOGS INSTEAD OF MARKET RESEARCH BLOGS So you want to see what I predict will be the top market research blogs for 2011? Well, over the next week I will be narrowing this list of 25 down to only 10 contenders. I will reveal [...]
December 16, 2010 by David | Categories: News
By: Bob Weber, The Canadian Press After a year of scathing billboards in foreign cities, a virtual revolving door of American politicians and Hollywood celebrities, and a very public trial over 1,600 dead ducks, it may be hard to imagine how Alberta’s oilsands could get any more prominent. Just you wait. “We’re planning to double [...]
December 16, 2010 by David | Categories: News
Federal Conservatives’ brand the strongest, but most divisive: Poll By DAVID AKIN, QMI Agency Those who love ’em, love ’em a lot. But those who don’t like the federal Conservative Party really, really, really don’t like them. A new poll out Thursday says that, among other things, the brand associated with the Conservative Party of [...]