The document compares content strategy and market research, noting that content strategy is seen as exciting and new while market research is seen as boring and old. Both require establishing goals, understanding audiences, asking good questions, and analysis, but market research also fits into workflows and informs substance. The document discusses using mobile apps to conduct market research through surveys and analytics and provides considerations for different market research methods and firms.

1. Content Strategy + Market Research Dialing it in?

2. Content Strategy Exciting and new! Fun and fascinating! All the cool kids do it

3. Market Research Boring and old! Slow and annoying! Who does that anymore?

4. Content strategy Requires Establishing goals Understanding an audience Asking good questions Doing good analysis Making good decisions Producing good results Doing it all on time

5. Market Research Requires Establishing goals Understanding an audience Asking good questions Doing good analysis Sharing good results Doing it all on time

6. Mobile: The new face of market research? Create survey for mobile application Distribute survey to targeted or random audience Analyze and share results

7. Create Ask questions, revise questions, create conditions Are these the right questions?

8. Distribute Distribute by mobile app: iPhone, Droid, BBerry Limit demographics or leave open Whose opinion do you need?

9. Analyze By demographic Cross-question analysis Visualization

10. Share Email, Twitter, blog

11. Where does market research fit in? Content + People Fits into Workflow + Informs Substance http://blog.braintraffic.com/2011/03/brain_traffic_lands_quad/

12. Market Research Considerations Mobile apps Online surveys Twitter poll Facebook poll Nielsen, Pew, Gallup TNS, GfK, IDC, etc. Synovate, Ipsos, Brainjuicer When in doubt, pilot? http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2011/04/sbplan.html