Happy Market Research Podcast

Ep. 317 – Daniel Stradtman, VP of Consumer & Market Insights at The Lubrizol Corporation, on how to add Strategy to Market Research

Episode Summary

This episode of the Happy Market Research Podcast was recorded in July 2020. My guest today is Daniel Stradtman VP of Consumer & Market Insights at The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway Company The Lubrizol Corporation is a provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial, and consumer markets. These products include many different types of additives from transportation-related fluids like engine oils to personal care products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices Since 2011, Lubrizol has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. It generated $7 billion in revenue and has an employee headcount of approximately 8,300 people globally. Prior to joining Lubrizol, Dan started his career as a research project manager for a non-profit. Since then he has served as Director of Consumer Insights & Strategy at Walmart, Director of Brand and Comms at Kantar TNS, and the VP of Market Insights, Analytics, and Strategy of GE. Find Daniel Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danstradtman  Twitter: https://twitter.com/insightdan Website: https://www.lubrizol.com  Find Jamin Online: Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil  Find Us Online:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch  Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp  Website: www.happymr.com  Music:  “Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com  Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/  This Episode is Sponsored by: This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Almost everyone has taken its surveys, but did you know that SurveyMonkey offers complete solutions for market researchers? In addition to flexible surveys, their global Audience panel, and research services, SurveyMonkey just launched a fast and easy way to collect market feedback, with 7 new Expert Solutions for concept and creative testing. With built-in, customizable methodology, AI-Powered Insights, and industry benchmarking, you can get feedback on your ideas from your target market–in a presentation-ready format, by the way–in as little as an hour. For more information on SurveyMonkey Market Research Solutions, visit sur...

Episode Notes

This episode of the Happy Market Research Podcast was recorded in July 2020.

My guest today is Daniel Stradtman VP of Consumer & Market Insights at The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway Company

The Lubrizol Corporation is a provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial, and consumer markets. These products include many different types of additives from transportation-related fluids like engine oils to personal care products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices

Since 2011, Lubrizol has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. It generated $7 billion in revenue and has an employee headcount of approximately 8,300 people globally.

Prior to joining Lubrizol, Dan started his career as a research project manager for a non-profit. Since then he has served as Director of Consumer Insights & Strategy at Walmart, Director of Brand and Comms at Kantar TNS, and the VP of Market Insights, Analytics, and Strategy of GE.

Find Daniel Online:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danstradtman 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/insightdan

Website: https://www.lubrizol.com 

Find Jamin Online:

Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil

Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil 

Find Us Online: 

Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp 

Website: www.happymr.com 

Music: 

“Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com 

Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ 

This Episode is Sponsored by:

This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Almost everyone has taken its surveys, but did you know that SurveyMonkey offers complete solutions for market researchers? In addition to flexible surveys, their global Audience panel, and research services, SurveyMonkey just launched a fast and easy way to collect market feedback, with 7 new Expert Solutions for concept and creative testing. With built-in, customizable methodology, AI-Powered Insights, and industry benchmarking, you can get feedback on your ideas from your target market–in a presentation-ready format, by the way–in as little as an hour. For more information on SurveyMonkey Market Research Solutions, visit surveymonkey.com/market-research.

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Jamin Brazil: Hi, I'm Jamin. You're listening to the Happy Market research podcast. My guest today is Dan Stradtman, VP of consumer and market insights at the Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company. Lubrizol Corporation is a provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial and consumer markets. Their products include many different types of additives from transportation related fluids like engine oils to personal care products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Since 2011, Lubrizol has been a subsidiary of the Berkshire Hathaway company, and it has generated over $7 billion in annual revenue. It has an employee headcount of approximately 8,300 people globally. Prior to joining Lubrizol, Daniel started his career as a research project manager for a nonprofit. Since then, he has served as director of consumer insights and strategy at Walmart, Director of brand and comms at Kantar TNS, and the VP of market insights,