“Hold the pickle … hold the lettuce … special orders don’t upset us. All we ask is that you let us serve it your way.”
That’s a jingle from a 1974 Burger King commercial. Translated into in today’s modern terms, that means we want to personalize your experience. The commercial aired 45 years ago. Was Burger King ahead of its time? Today, companies are spending big parts of their marketing, sales and IT budgets to create personalized experiences with the hope of winning over their customers, getting them to come back, and making them loyal to their brand.
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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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