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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,…
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Top 10 Lessons Learned from Win/Loss Research in Q1, 2021

Over the past 12 months, Ideba has seen a significant increase in the volume of qualitative win/loss research, with CROs and executive leadership looking for an unbiased, third-party perspective into why their company is winning and losing…
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The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

Ideba held its first QBR of the year last week, and while we were reviewing all the great work for our clients, it got me thinking about the mechanics of our team. As it stands now, Ideba is made up of eight full-time employees, multiple…
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Storytelling Tips for Better Presentations

Storytelling has been used since the beginning of time to derive deeper meanings of situations and life experiences. Storytelling is used frequently in marketing and branding to appear more relatable and engage customers to become more invested…
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Uganda 2022 – Getting Back in the Saddle

Having supported Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School for the past six years with capital projects, supplies and scholarships, the Ideba team and friends were looking forward to a large construction project in Summer, 2020 – building dormitories…
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Enjoying the best healthcare system in the world

You enter the hospital at 5:30 AM for hip surgery. You walk up to the desk and you’re asked for  money. Having endured an unthinkable period of time in sometimes ghastly pain in order to save up enough to cover your bodacious out-of-pocket…
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Digital Fungus

As the Crypto Economic Era bull market rages, with Bitcoin and Ethereum surpassing their all-time highs, we are seeing a range of blockchain-based businesses, applications, and projects entering the market. One of the most intriguing categories…