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Ponderings from the Perch

Ponderings from the Perch

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Conversations with Priscilla McKinney, founder and President of Little Bird Marketing, an award-winning agency specializing in content marketing, lead generation, branding and design. As a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Priscilla's topics range from marketing best practices, the "stunning discomfort" of entrepreneurship, market research, her love of the autoharp, and other marketing oddities.℗ & © 2018 Ponderings from the Perch アート 経済学
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  • Customer Insights and the Power of Context

    Customer Insights and the Power of Context
    2026/06/12
    *Help us shape the future of Ponderings from the Perch by taking our short, 13-question listener survey. We want to learn more about where you listen, how you listen, and what kinds of conversations you want more from the show. Click here to take the survey.* Your product score does not tell you what your consumer actually experiences. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney sits down with Keren Novack, President of Curion, to pull apart what it actually means to be product-obsessed, and why the brands that think they have the data to prove product success are often the ones most caught off guard when consumers walk away. Product testing has always lived in a controlled environment for good reason, but controlled environments strip out the very conditions that determine whether a consumer comes back. Context is not a soft variable. It is THE variable, and the market research industry has been slow to reckon with what that costs brands in repeat purchase, in category position, and in their ability to read trends versus movements before it’s too late. "The only expert on your product is the consumer," Novack explains. "You've got to get the product in consumers' homes. You've got to get them interacting with it in context, in a way that is familiar and comfortable to the consumer." The macro pressures bearing down on consumer brands right now aren’t arriving one at a time. From shifting eating behaviors to private label brands that no longer feel like private label, they compound. A brand without a grip on real-world customer insights doesn’t just miss a trend. It misses the moment a trend becomes a movement, and those two things don’t feel the same until it is already too late to respond. Music written and performed by Leighton Cordell. Sponsors: Ever feel like your marketing plan is just... meh? You've got the pieces, but are they really working together? We often find that even when companies are doing the right things, they may not be doing them in the right order. The results are, well, no results. Curious how you can effectively evaluate your marketing efforts? Want clarity on your next best strategic move? Take our Marketing Assessment Quiz and in just minutes, discover exactly where you stand – and where you could be going. Click here and take the quiz today and don’t leave success to chance. Priscilla McKinney is not just a CEO; she is also a LinkedIn Influencer. The reality is that very few people are using LinkedIn efficiently or effectively, and if you’re not careful, social media can become a black hole. When you emerge, you find you wound up in a place you never intended to go and you’re wondering where all the time went. Time is precious, and trying to be everything to everyone means becoming nothing to no one. That's why she's developed a transformative 12-week course that goes beyond basic tips and tricks – teaching you how to build a strategic network and create stellar content that cuts through the LinkedIn noise. Click here to learn more, and sign up for a spot in her social influence course today!
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    27 分
  • The Power of Conversational Research for Customer Insights

    The Power of Conversational Research for Customer Insights
    2026/05/29
    The research fraud crisis is louder than the industry wants to admit, and the companies still shopping from the same compromised sources are not solving it. They are funding it. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney sits down with Jennifer Reid, Co-CEO and Chief Methodologist at Rival Group, to pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to build research panels from the ground up, and why that decision is more consequential than most brands realize. The assumption that mobile-first methodology is a workaround for younger audiences is flatly wrong, and Reid has the data to prove it. The pandemic quietly leveled the playing field in ways the research industry has yet to fully reckon with. Market segmentation built on outdated demographic assumptions about who uses what technology is quietly distorting the customer insights brands think they have. "The beauty of the mobile device is it's your mobile device. Psychologically, it is a very personal, private device," Reid explains. "Our relationship with our phones is different from our relationship with our computers." The decision to own your audience source rather than rent it is not just an operational one. It is a stance on the value of research quality. Reid has built panels three times across her career, and the conditions that finally made it possible to do it right say something uncomfortable about what the industry has been willing to settle for. Music written and performed by Leighton Cordell. Sponsors: Priscilla McKinney is not just a CEO; she is also a LinkedIn Influencer. The reality is that very few people are using LinkedIn efficiently or effectively, and if you’re not careful, social media can become a black hole. When you emerge, you find you wound up in a place you never intended to go and you’re wondering where all the time went. Time is precious, and trying to be everything to everyone means becoming nothing to no one. That's why she's developed a transformative 12-week course that goes beyond basic tips and tricks – teaching you how to build a strategic network and create stellar content that cuts through the LinkedIn noise. Click here to learn more, and sign up for a spot in her social influence course today! Ever feel like your marketing plan is just... meh? You've got the pieces, but are they really working together? We often find that even when companies are doing the right things, they may not be doing them in the right order. The results are, well, no results. Curious how you can effectively evaluate your marketing efforts? Want clarity on your next best strategic move? Take our Marketing Assessment Quiz and in just minutes, discover exactly where you stand – and where you could be going. Click here and take the quiz today and don’t leave success to chance.
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    24 分
  • How In-market Testing Delivers Richer Consumer Insights

    How In-market Testing Delivers Richer Consumer Insights
    2026/05/22
    Consumers are not liars. They are simply unreliable narrators of their own lives, and the entire consumer research industry is built on the gap between those two things. On this episode of Ponderings from the Perch, the Little Bird Marketing podcast, host and CEO Priscilla McKinney sits down with Rachel Buss, Vice President of Strategic Insights at Curion. With more than 15 years in consumer research, Buss works at the intersection of controlled testing and real-world product performance, helping restaurant and foodservice brands close what the industry calls the say-do gap. Her work connects customer insights to the kinds of decisions brands must make when a product leaves the lab and lands in the hands of a distracted, hungry, or completely unpredictable consumer. There is a specific kind of organizational pain that arrives when data confirms what leadership did not want to hear. Trend analysis points in one direction, the C-suite points in another, and the person holding the research sits in the middle, trying to explain why consumer behavior did not cooperate with the strategy. The tension between what a product does in a controlled setting and what it does in the real world is not a research problem. It is a product lifecycle problem that most brands address far too late, if at all. "People still are looking for faster, cheaper, not necessarily better," Buss explains. "Just faster and cheaper." The promise of synthetic data and AI-assisted research adds a new, complicated layer to an already complex problem. Data-driven marketing decisions depend on the integrity of the data itself, and as the line between human response and generated response blurs, the demand for proof of human experience does not shrink. It grows. For anyone who has ever relied on focus groups, ethnographies, or in-context research to make a call on what comes next, this episode asks a question that does not yet have a clean answer. If you want to go deeper into Buss's in-market approach, Curion’s on-demand webinar, Moments that Matter, and their whitepaper on consumer product research are worth your time. Music written and performed by Leighton Cordell. Sponsors: Ever feel like your company is sitting on a goldmine of opportunities, but they keep slipping away? Most companies already have their next big win hiding in their database. Little Bird Marketing's Revenue Sprint is a proven system that works backward from your revenue goals to create a focused plan for building a sales pipeline and predictable growth. No massive budget required—just strategic execution that delivers measurable results. Ready to turn missed opportunities into new wins? Click here and build a predictable pipeline for sustainable growth. Tired of generic marketing firms that don't get market research? Say hello to Little Bird Marketing, the revenue generation company of choice for the market research industry. Our "peeps" understand market research inside and out. We know your buyers, craft meaningful messages that move them to buy, understand the competitive landscape and where you fit in the market. We get the industry - from qual/quant to emerging technologies. Why settle for getting the job done when you can soar with marketing that drives real revenue? Click here to get started.
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    27 分
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