Welcome to the 100th episode of the Happy Market Research Podcast! In this episode, Merrill Dubrow, CEO of M/A/R/C Research, interviews Jamin Brazil, Founder and CEO of Happy Market Research. The two take a look at the benefits of producing a podcast, market research trends, and life lessons. Find Jamin Online: LinkedIn Twitter Find Merrill Online: LinkedIn Website: M/A/R/C Research Find Us Online: www.happymr.com Social Media: @happymrxp LinkedIn This Episode’s Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by G3 Translate. The G3 Translate team offers unparalleled expertise in foreign language translations for market researchers and insight professionals across the globe. Not only do they speak hundreds of languages, they are fluent in market research. For more information, please visit them at G3Translate.com. [00:00] Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Merrill Dubrow. For those of you who are tuning in to see Jamin Brazil be the host of the Happy Market Research Podcast, we’re going to change it up a little bit on today’s show, which is the 100th Podcast of the Happy Market Research Podcast. My name is Merrill Dubrow, and I’m President and CEO of M/A/R/C Research, and I actually am going to put the host on the hot seat. And we’re going to interview Jamin Brazil. [00:27] Super excited about this. [00:29] Great. Thanks, Jamin. As I am and everybody else. But before we get into even a little bit of Q&A and put Jamin on the hot seat, I just want to tell everybody that this could not be made possible without G3 Translate. [00:42] This episode is brought to you by G3 Translate. The G3 Translate team offers unparalleled expertise in foreign language translations for market researchers and insight professionals across the world. Not only do they speak hundreds of languages, they are fluent in market research. For more information, please visit Nancy at G3Translate.com. [01:10] Jamin, how are you today, sir? This is a big highlight for me. [01:14] For me, it’s a huge highlight. I’m super excited and honored that... We should also level-set: Merrill has been on the show two times. He was my very first podcast, which was published as Number 105, and then we had him on earlier this year as an update, kind of post-transaction as he acquired M/A/R/C Research. And now, he and I have been long-standing friends in the market research industry. He said, “Hey, has anybody ever interviewed you on the show? And I’m like, “That’s never happened. That’s crazy.” And at the same time, we’re coming up on our 100th show; in fact, this is the 100th show for the Happy Market Research Podcast. [01:50] Well, let me tell you something. The pleasure is all mine. I listen to your podcast when I work out, when I drive home.
Welcome to the 100th episode of the Happy Market Research Podcast! In this episode, Merrill Dubrow, CEO of M/A/R/C Research, interviews Jamin Brazil, Founder and CEO of Happy Market Research. The two take a look at the benefits of producing a podcast, market research trends, and life lessons.
Find Jamin Online:
Find Merrill Online:
Website: M/A/R/C Research
Find Us Online:
www.happymr.com
Social Media: @happymrxp
This Episode’s Sponsor:
This episode is brought to you by G3 Translate. The G3 Translate team offers unparalleled expertise in foreign language translations for market researchers and insight professionals across the globe. Not only do they speak hundreds of languages, they are fluent in market research. For more information, please visit them at G3Translate.com.
[00:00]
Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Merrill Dubrow. For those of you who are tuning in to see Jamin Brazil be the host of the Happy Market Research Podcast, we’re going to change it up a little bit on today’s show, which is the 100th Podcast of the Happy Market Research Podcast. My name is Merrill Dubrow, and I’m President and CEO of M/A/R/C Research, and I actually am going to put the host on the hot seat. And we’re going to interview Jamin Brazil.
[00:27]
Super excited about this.
[00:29]
Great. Thanks, Jamin. As I am and everybody else. But before we get into even a little bit of Q&A and put Jamin on the hot seat, I just want to tell everybody that this could not be made possible without G3 Translate.
[00:42]
This episode is brought to you by G3 Translate. The G3 Translate team offers unparalleled expertise in foreign language translations for market researchers and insight professionals across the world. Not only do they speak hundreds of languages, they are fluent in market research. For more information, please visit Nancy at G3Translate.com.
[01:10]
Jamin, how are you today, sir? This is a big highlight for me.
[01:14]
For me, it’s a huge highlight. I’m super excited and honored that... We should also level-set: Merrill has been on the show two times. He was my very first podcast, which was published as Number 105, and then we had him on earlier this year as an update, kind of post-transaction as he acquired M/A/R/C Research. And now, he and I have been long-standing friends in the market research industry. He said, “Hey, has anybody ever interviewed you on the show? And I’m like, “That’s never happened. That’s crazy.” And at the same time, we’re coming up on our 100th show; in fact, this is the 100th show for the Happy Market Research Podcast.
[01:50]
Well, let me tell you something. The pleasure is all mine. I listen to your podcast when I work out, when I drive home. And I want to thank you for allowing the opportunity to be on, I guess, in some way for a third time. So, let’s just get right into it. The 100th episode – Wow! – of the podcast. Just talk a little bit about the motivation behind starting the podcast.
[02:12]
The motivation is different than where I ended up, where I am right now, and then where I’m going with the podcast. The challenge that I had exiting FocusVision is there’s a fair amount of restriction around what you can and can’t do in the industry. That’s just very normal part and parcel whenever there’s a transaction; you’re partaking in that transaction selling a company. So I was fairly limited for about a year and a half after exiting the CEO role of FocusVision. When I thought about what can I do to be able to maintain engagement and brand inside of the space, video, vlogs (really popular) that takes a lot of effort and learning. Podcasts seemed to me to be the thing that would be the fastest and easiest way for me to be able to engage with my peers and insights leaders across the space. So, that was really where I started my journey back...