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The revolution of market research in consumer behaviour

    Real-Time Data Is Changing The Way Marketers Understand Consumers JAN. 13, 2014, The optiX dashboard gives marketers insight into consumer behavior.   This post is sponsored by eXelate.  For the last 50 to 70 years, the market research industry has been focused on the same surveys and panels. (Think of those prototypical focus groups,…

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Poverty: The reason most well-known writers still teach English

  In one more week I was going to be a millionaire. At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife’s family. One more week on Amazon’s best-seller list and I would have seven figures in the bank, easily. Her cousin had looked this fact up on the Internet, so it had to be…

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Wherever you may be in the world, you will feel the unstoppable force of a new Asia.

   So goes the advertising platform for the largest bank in Southeast Asia. These people know -exactly- what’s happening right now: wealth and power are shifting East.     “If you were smart in the 18th century, you moved to France. If you were smart in the 19th century, you moved to England. If you…

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Citizen Class Warfare 2012 : Will Americans Stave Off Disaster ?

   The man who broke the Bank of England     George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value…

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Middle East Demand For Sex: Prostitutes vs. Extra Wives

    Demand For  Sex : hidden in plain sight    To guard their investment,  super nightclub owners take their female employees’ passports and lock the doors of the hotel between 5 a.m. and 1 p.m.   Lebanon — Twenty minutes north of Beirut, in the Christian heartland of Lebanon is Jounieh, the country’s little…

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China: Microbloging Reshaping A New Landscape For Giant Enterprises

    The Chinese business world has seen several recent examples of how bad management of customer relations can inflict serious damage on the social web. But will the big corporations see the upside in time?   BEIJING- Could the ground-level buzz of social media threaten mighty companies like Siemens and Lenovo? Don’t rule it…