Martha Guidry, author of Marketing Concepts that Win discussed her book at “Spring Into Action”, the New England Marketing Research Association conference last week in Waltham, Massachusetts. One of the most common problems she sees with marketing concepts is that they lack focus: they often blur the line between a core idea concept and a positioning concept, and they often include so many benefits and features that they test well but perform poorly in the market.
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Jeffrey Henning
Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.
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