Jodi McGee on market research’s role in creating successful and trusted brands

This latest episode of Now that’s Significant, a Market Research Podcast has host Michael Howard, the head of marketing at Infotools, interviewing Jodi McGee, Co-Founder and Chief Insights Officer of Inquisitive Insights, a women-owned business that performs qualitative research for consumer brands.

Inquisitive works with curious leaders and their trusted agency partners to explore preferences, attitudes, motivations, and behaviors. For much of her career, she has used data to build strategic communication plans and programming and offered counsel to senior leaders at growth companies. Jodi earned a Marketing degree from Georgetown University, received her certification in Marketing Research from UC Davis and studied abroad at the Universidad de Autonoma in Madrid, Spain.

During the episode, Micheal and Jodi discuss the role that market research plays in building trust in a brand, which is an essential part in it becoming successful.

Jodi has seen plenty of examples to know that trust is perhaps the greatest predictor of brand engagement. She stressed that this is something that can't be manufactured internally, it's something that is earned.

Through Inquisitive Insights' framework, they help organizations build trust through authenticity, capability, and empathy.

Jodi loves when her research answers questions, then creates new questions for her clients, helping to dive even deeper into the minds and lives of consumers.

We hope you enjoy the show.

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