16 Aug

Digital marketing through social media is quickly changing the landscape of advertising in Saskatchewan. It is especially changing how marketers handle their overall marketing mix in influencing consumers to engage with their brand online. We marketers can no longer expect a marketing campaign to succeed without understanding our target audience, their demographics and their buyer journey. In order to figure out our audience segments, we have to cognize their motives - an apt way to do...

08:41 / Marketing / Research / Saskatchewan
14 Aug

There is a new leading-edge tracking technology making big waves – recognition software. Global recognition (e.g., biometric recognition like infrared, odour, face recognition, fingerprint, retina, iris, palm print, voice, signature, DNA, etc.), and geolocation are emerging technologies used for examining people and their experiences - in an attempt to collect personalized information - while avoiding the disturbance of their privacy. In terms of the emerging technology itself, recognition tools are able to track your identity and...

16:43 / Innovation / Research
09 Aug

Ever stroll through a retail mall and realize businesses are direct targeting someone far off from your demographic? As if you were too old, too young or too hip for the crowd they are targeting? Landing pages are often designed the same way. Landing pages are meant to appeal to everyone but really cater to a select few. A landing page is like an outlet store – it is waiting to sell you discounted items at a reduced...

15:52 / Business / Marketing
20 Jul

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2017 In a recent independent poll conducted by Insightrix Research Inc., 39.8% of Saskatchewan residents state they have little or no understanding of the provincial and federal fire codes and regulations. Another 54% state they hold a basic understanding of fire codes while only 6.2% claim to fully understand fire codes and regulations. Higher proportions of women (44.9%), compared to men (34.5%), state they have little or no understanding of the...

01:00 / News Release / OnTopic / Saskatchewan
18 Jul

In an era where every Internet user has a journey to share and is the storyteller of their own immediate world – the question is – how often does your brand take into consideration that it needs to do the same?  In business, we often interpret the act of purchasing products as a purely transactional experience – one that is solely between a business and its consumer. It is rare that a brand superimposes its ability...

15:21 / Business / Marketing
10 Jul

In a recent Insightrix article on neuroscience, we discussed the trend of neuromarketing, or as preferred for our purposes, using neuroscience tools and methodologies in the field of market research. Aside from leaving many wracked with existential dread, the article on neuroscience raises a few questions about how the processes described in the post actually work and how they are useful in the field of market research. If you haven’t yet, you may want to give it...

12:51 / Innovation / Research
05 Jul

Trying to figure out millennials and how to market to them effectively has been quite the topic of discussion of late. Actually, every time we are on the cusp of a new generation set to become the primary purchasers in Canada, we flock to their archetype and often attempt to exploit it. But it seems nobody can get a handle on who these millennials are and what they are all about. What a typical millennial problem… According to...

09:09 / Business / Marketing
28 Jun

 A person is able to articulate their wants and desires through conscious, reflective deliberation, through weighing facts and arguments and through making rational decisions, right?   Right? Actually - probably not. While most of us think we are consciously creating all of our thoughts and decisions through rational processes, research in the field of neuroscience has actually told us something else might be going on. Making decisions or forming opinions like this may not actually be the reality when it...

11:54 / Innovation / Research
28 Jun

Recently, Insightrix Research® conducted a quantitative study with Saskatchewan residents about their habits on social media usage. Measuring social media usage was the main topic of the research, including determining the ways people in Saskatchewan connect and their preference of social media platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter or Instagram. This study is the latest installment in our continuing Social Media Habits Syndicated Report series, a series reporting on Saskatchewan social media usage and habits exclusively. We employed the...

08:41 / Business / Research