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A Changing Family Dynamic – wise words from two great bosses

The best piece of business advice I ever received was from @Andersbrown, a former Microsoft employee, and one of the founders at a former employer, Akona Systems. A super smart, highly engaging guy, from whom I learned a tremendous amount. His…
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Promoting Customer Success with Videos

Ideba’s creative team loves to help our clients share their offerings in creative and engaging ways. Instead of telling potential customers how you can help them, let your past customers share what they gained by using your products or services.…
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A Logo is Worth a Thousand Words

As part of the creative team here at Ideba, I get to wear many hats to help deliver creative solutions for our clients. Out of all the myriad ways we help them succeed, branding and more specifically logo design top my list of rewarding challenges. What…
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Engage Your Customers; Unlock Your Future Potential

Seems like the customer was always right, after all. Innovation doesn’t start with brainstorming in a small room of executives, it starts with unmet needs in the market, then delivering solutions that meet or resolve customer needs. How do…
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You Won’t Know If You Don’t Ask

Qualitative research is an effective means of collecting information from clients and prospects through questioning and conversation by an unbiased third party, providing depth, breath, and insight. The extent to which, could never be captured…
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Why Aren’t You Doing More Research?

Primary research is defined as research in which investigators collect data directly, instead of relying on data from previous research. Ideba does a significant amount of primary research for clients, but I always wonder why more clients…
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Evaluating Hoopla

Creating a competitive marketing advantage is not easy. It's hard for a CMO to evaluate the marketing hoopla, innovative new technologies and disruptive marketing chatter that saturate the industry today. Navigating the complexity of expanding…
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Why Training Can Be a Competitive Differentiator for You

When you think about training, it should be a “must have” for all organizations. But to what extent does training become a competitive differentiator? Basic technical training is what I would consider critical. Equally, service training…
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An Ever Evolving Role at an Ever Evolving Company

When Ideba was founded in 2010, we had three service offerings: qualitative VOC research, design/copywriting, and marketing consulting. In years one through eight, our services evolved… adding quantitative research, CSAT, Win/loss, analytics,…