New trainees at Bonsai - a piece of new normality

After a difficult year for the start of professional life - training is only conditionally suitable for home office - we are also arriving at this topic in the New Normal: On 1 September, two newcomers, Johanna Pickhard and Anders Öden, started their training as market and social research assistants (FAMS). An occasion for Jens Krüger to reflect on the job description of FAMS, which has already changed significantly in the 15 years since the introduction of the training profession.

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Market Research Week - what Bonsai offers

Bonsai Research presents exciting research approaches in four events at Market Research Week: We decode the Path to Purchase anew and present how we intelligently combine qualitative research and metering. We show what companies gain from researching the context that shapes people in all walks of life and why CX is less about the "right" software and more about the effective use of the "right" data.

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Do something different - in marketing

Customer experience is no longer enough, it has to be total customer experience. The logic of the increase alone makes it clear: investments are being made here. Millions are invested in software, systems, artificial intelligence and ultimately also in human intelligence in the form of personnel. At the same time, marketing seems more bland than ever. Why is that actually the case? Jens Krüger asks - and gives suggestions on how things could be different in Bonsai Sales-Magazin.

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Nadja Hilse joins the Bonsai Lab as of today

planning & analysis reports today: "The team building at Bonsai Research continues - this time the Bonsai Lab, the qualitative research of Bonsai, gets new support: Nadja Hilse as a Client Partner. The experienced semiotician and specialist for cultural insights analyses will take on a cross-sectional function between innovation research, brand strategy and consulting.

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Single source study on confectionery starts in the pre-Christmas season

Christmas is here again in the food retail sector. Just in time for the start of the season, the large confectionery pilot study will soon be launched with our new panel partner Gemius. We collect and analyse the receipts (shopping behaviour), the online behaviour (tracking data) and the purchase motives (through surveys) of confectionery shoppers. Interested in participating?

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Balancing advertising investments with the customer journey

Jens Krüger, CEO of Bonsai, comments in New Business magazine on the significant growth in the digital display advertising market and the upwardly revised forecast for 2021. For Jens Krüger, the fact that the market will pass the €5 billion mark this year is clearly the result of changing customer journeys in a number of important industries.

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CX - explaining the world - Jens Krüger's column

Bonsai CEO Jens Krüger has been dealing with the topic of customer experience even more intensively than usual in recent weeks and months. Today his column "CX - the explanation of the world. Or what is it actually about?" at marktforschung.de. A few days ago, the magazine "Sales" for Friends & Family from Bonsai and myEnso came out with a complete issue on the topic of CX.

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RMS Wirkungscase makes Jever Fun fun

The audio marketer RMS shows in a current case study how audio advertising makes people want to buy Jever Fun. Highlight of the Bonsai study: the willingness to buy Jever Fun "soon" increased significantly among the listeners of the commercial. In mixed contacts (audio and moving image as well as online), the respondents' willingness to buy tripled.

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You can experience something! The new Bonsai sales magazine on the subject of CX

The customer experience in the "new normal" is an enormous concern for advertisers, agencies and retailers. That's why it is the main topic of the new issue of Sales Magazine, which we publish together with myEnso and New Business Verlag. What awaits you in the hot-off-the-press issue - here's an insight:

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Bonsai and Gemius decode the customer journey anew

Bonsai Research is the exclusive institute partner of the panel provider Gemius from 1.9.2021. This means that media usage and purchase data are collected from one and the same person (single source). All websites visited and the advertising contacts there (including the walled garden) are tracked. Shoppers scan their purchases via the Bonsai app on their smartphone.

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#SustainabilityNervt: Trend Talk by Bonsai

Yes, sustainability is important for companies. But it is not everything. The topic even annoys many, especially young consumers. How companies "properly" become (and communicate) sustainable - that's what we'll be talking about on Thursday at the planning&analysis Insights Congress with Helge Carstens, Market Research Manager New Business at Merck KGaA.

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AI + IQ = Bonsai

How would it be if an artificial intelligence could answer one of the most important questions in advertising effectiveness research at the push of a button, namely: What needs of people are triggered by exactly this one advertising medium, this one image that a brand sends out? Sounds good? It is. And it already works.

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Good ice cream and good news from Bonsai at the Insights Congress

This week we present a series of Bonsai news in the context of the planning&analysis Insights Congress. Today we start with something "sweet": We show how we accompanied the start-up guteseis from test market to market. And that's why you can test the really "sucky" ice cream from guteseis at our stand at Insights 2021 and the HORIZONT Advertising Effectiveness Summit.

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"Throw the boring and always the same ideas into the wastepaper basket".

Creatives sometimes cultivate their prejudices against market research, which supposedly sets them limits and "shoots down" the best ideas. In the New Business Podcast, Thomas Hoch (Head of NeedScope & Brand Strategy at Bonsai) and Walter Freese (Director Business Development at Interrogare) thoroughly dispel this prejudice and talk about how market research can support creatives.

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CSR expert Jan Borcherding comes to Bonsai

Planning & Analysis reports on another new addition to Bonsai. Jan Borcherding joins the Strategy Team as Head of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). The CR expert comes from Kantar, where he advised and supported well-known clients on the topic of corporate reputation management for years.

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BiFi: significant increase in sales through radio spots

BiFi and RMS wanted to know: What is the impact of a brand-building radio spot - without any price discount or promotion? One result from the Bonsai test market NRW: sales of BiFi Roll increased by 16 per cent as a result of the campaign. The increase in sales was particularly high at petrol stations, the location of one of the tested spots.

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