ResearchTalk

Mark Earls, author of Herd, talks about why copying is the important new paradigm for encouraging behavioural change.

Filmed at the BrainJuicer/HSBC London Summerfest in June 2009 (disclosure: we produced the vid).

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Our article in the Jun ‘09 edition of ESOMAR’s Research World. Grab your copy here.

Professor Robert Shaw is Honorary Professor of Marketing Metrics at Cass Business School and the author of ten books including Marketing Payback, We talk to him about the current state of marketing effectiveness and his new initiative designed to improve it.

In the current recession, marketing is under extreme pressure, as cost cutting sweeps business. Luckily marketers have plenty of opportunity to improve their effectiveness, since in the boom years they had become very inefficient, and money was routinely wasted on marketing activities that did not deliver, and mistakes were ignored and often repeated.
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We present another entrepreneur’s tale.

Specialist Latin America panel company Livra was sold a year ago to Ipsos after nine years of profitable growth.

It was started by Argentinian students Diego Meller and Martín Añazco at the height of the dotcom boom when they were only 19- and 20-years old respectively.

Diego is now London-based so we managed the above 8-minute chat with him to find out how the company got started, how they turned it round to generate healthy revenues, and why they sold when they did and why to Ipsos among a number of interested buyers.

Enjoy!