Comments on: Not Always Knowing Where You are Going is Okay…

By: Sergio Botero

Sergio Botero — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 00:43:03 +0000

Thanks Ajit for introduce me to the audience of this great forum of the marketing research industry. I am just catching up in my many activities, completing this semester and in my job hunt but I am planning to add some of my humble opinions.
I think that this forum is an opportunity for all members of this small community to interact and speed up the diffusion of ideas. Each one learn from being exposed to different point of views. This blog can play that role in that and being a sounding board

By: Ajit John

Ajit John — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:05:13 +0000

The blog is a great idea and source of information for me. A classmate of mine, Sergio, had introduced me to this blog a few weeks back .It has been extremely interesting to me and I am trying to catch up with all the old postings. Thanks a lot for this blog and hope this evolves into several specialized blogs of M/A/R/C.

By: Toby Bloomberg

Toby Bloomberg — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:34:02 +0000

Randy - thanks for the shout out. Helping M/A/R/C launch its first blog (I see more in your future!) and watching as Merrill develops his unique ‘blog voice’ has been a joy.

Merrill, congrats! on the success of the Merrill Dubrow Blog. Randy, Joan and Frank thank you all for your vison and for encouraging Merrill to blog. Merrill you so “get it” and I’m looking forward to reading more great posts.

By: Randy Wahl

Randy Wahl — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:50:19 +0000

Just to build on your point, one of the most telling factors in a company’s ability to move forward and grow is its ability to know its strengths. Not in terms of products, positionings or specific techniques, but at a more basic level of knowing what we can do well, what talents we have and what we are passionate about. From there it’s easier to evaluate opportunities and figure out how to support them.

So when Joan and I were at the AMA conference earlier this year and listened to Toby Bloomberg’s session on blogs, we came away with the same idea. When we saw each other after the session we both said “Hey! Merrill would be a great blogger.” (She beat me to the “Jinx”, however, and I had to buy her a soda.) “Why?” you might ask.

What we took away from the session was that a good blog/blogger had a point of view on a subject(s) and was passionate and sincere about talking, listening and generally interacting with people.

The questions you had were interesting because none of the rest of us had those.

Hey….have you ever thought about a podcast???

By: Ron Bailey

Ron Bailey — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:15:11 +0000

I stumbled on this blog a couple of weeks ago. Just want to say I enjoy reading the posts. Thanks to your internal team for pushing you in this directions.

And to you for taking the time to develop the posts.