Market Research Articles
Bankruptcy to a Trillion Dollars
Posted on: Monday, October 21st, 2019

2019 Politics
Posted on: Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Politics is now a 24/7, 365 activity. As soon as one election is over, the arrows start being slung for the next one. The 2016 Republican primaries with their endless debates and 16 hapless contenders rolled through Fox, CNN, and MSNBC like a slow-moving freight train from 2015 through the spring of 2016 when the most unlikely of the candidates – Donald J. Trump - walked all over some of the biggest names in American politics. https://potus2016.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Trump-republican-debate-election-2016.jpg I don’t know…
In The Early Ninetieth Century
Posted on: Monday, July 22nd, 2019
In the early nineteenth century, from about 1820s to 1846s, immense Mexican land grants of tens of thousands of acres dominated the California landscape. The grants covered the soft rolling hills along the coast and inland and became grazing lands for cattle on a thousand hills in the halcyon days of Mexican California. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Massachusetts had become the recognized capital of American shoe manufacturing and the booming new industry needed leather, lots of…
Lenin and Me
Posted on: Friday, June 21st, 2019

SUPER BOWL 53
Posted on: Friday, February 8th, 2019
I’m not sure how the advertisers did, but I counted 52 Super Bowl commercials Sunday. At a cost of $5.25 million for 30 seconds – more of course for the 45 sec. and one minutes spots – CBS banked a cool $382 million for an afternoon of broadcasting to the 100 million pairs of Brady-watching eyeballs on Super Bowl 53. BURGER KING There were a couple of the commercials that communicated with power and class. And I will share my…
The Police Chief of Moscow (not one smart question).
Posted on: Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
In early June of 1992, six months after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, I traveled to Moscow to help a friend open a business college there. Along with a handful of other businessmen, I spoke to a group of about 200 Russian entrepreneurs that had gathered to participate in the inauguration of the college. That's probably about all the entrepreneurs there were in Russia in June of 1992. I spoke on the importance of market research and surveys as…