Happy Market Research Podcast

Ep. 409 – Rebecca Brooks, Founder and CEO of Alter Agents, on how to Navigate a Successful Career in Market Research

Episode Summary

My guest today is Rebecca Brooks, Founder and CEO of Alter Agents.  Founded in 2010, Alter Agents is based in Los Angeles California, and is a full-service, strategic market research consultancy reimagining research in an era of shifting decision making. Prior to founding Alter Agents, Rebecca has held senior roles at top market research agencies including Hall & Partners, Dialogue, and Diagnostic Research. She started her career as an Analyst.  Find Rebecca Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccalbrooks/  Website: https://alteragents.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 Displayr. How much of your analysis and reporting time is spent doing manual tasks? All that cutting & pasting, formatting, checking for mistakes, redoing work, using too many tools, and trying to figure things out. Try Displayr, it’s software that automatically does the painful tasks for you. Thousands of companies already use Displayr to cut their analysis and reporting times in half. I use the platform, my team and I love it. Get a demo and a free trial at displayr.com/happy. This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. You may know SurveyMonkey as a leader in feedback software, but may not know about their all-in-one market research platform. It’s powered by AI technology and taps into an integrated global Audience panel to deliver insights faster, without compromising quality.  Their latest innovation, the SurveyMonkey Brand Tracker, disrupts traditional research techniques by helping companies continuously monitor shifts in brand perception. Instead of static presentations, data is delivered in dynamic dashboards.

Episode Notes

My guest today is Rebecca Brooks, Founder and CEO of Alter Agents. 

Founded in 2010, Alter Agents is based in Los Angeles California, and is a full-service, strategic market research consultancy reimagining research in an era of shifting decision making.

Prior to founding Alter Agents, Rebecca has held senior roles at top market research agencies including Hall & Partners, Dialogue, and Diagnostic Research. She started her career as an Analyst. 

Find Rebecca Online:

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

Website: https://alteragents.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 Displayr. How much of your analysis and reporting time is spent doing manual tasks? All that cutting & pasting, formatting, checking for mistakes, redoing work, using too many tools, and trying to figure things out. Try Displayr, it’s software that automatically does the painful tasks for you. Thousands of companies already use Displayr to cut their analysis and reporting times in half. I use the platform, my team and I love it. Get a demo and a free trial at displayr.com/happy.

This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. You may know SurveyMonkey as a leader in feedback software, but may not know about their all-in-one market research platform. It’s powered by AI technology and taps into an integrated global Audience panel to deliver insights faster, without compromising quality. 

Their latest innovation, the SurveyMonkey Brand Tracker, disrupts traditional research techniques by helping companies continuously monitor shifts in brand perception. Instead of static presentations, data is delivered in dynamic dashboards. Revolutionary AI-Powered Insights instantly surface meaningful trends so you can spend less time digging through data and more time on your high impact strategy.

To learn more about SurveyMonkey’s 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 Rebecca Brooks, founder and CEO of Alter Agents. Founded in 2010, Alter Agents is based in Los Angeles, California and is a full-service strategic market research consultancy reimagining research in an era of shifting decision making. Prior to founding Alter Agents, Rebecca has held senior roles at top market research agencies including Hall and Partners, Dialogue and Diagnostic Research. She started her career as an analyst. Rebecca, welcome to the Happy Market Research podcast.

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Rebecca Brooks: Thank you Jamin, happy to be here.

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Jamin Brazil: Let's start out with our marquee question. Tell us about your parents and how they inform who you are today and what you're doing.

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Rebecca Brooks: It's an interesting question when it comes to a career. Both my parents did not go to college. They ended up getting their degrees in night school while we were small children and I think that watching them work all day, come home, study, get their degrees was a real- It really instilled in me the value of education, a testament to hard work. They were both really committed to it. My mom was a nurse who ended up running a cardiac rehabilitation program within the hospital. So after you had a heart attack you went through her program to learn how to take care of yourself and recover and all those kinds of good things. And basically every person in my small town that had heart attack knew my mom,