Happy Market Research Podcast

Mario Carrasco, cofounder of ThinkNow, on the Role of Diversity in Consumer Insights

Episode Summary

In this episode, we’ll hear from Mario Carrasco, cofounder of ThinkNow on his opinion and experiences about diversity in consumer insights.  Find Mario Online: Website: https://thinknow.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marioxcarrasco  Twitter: https://twitter.com/marioxcarrasco  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. This episode is brought to you by Fuel Cycle Ignition. Ignition is the agile insights platform that empowers leaders and their teams to improve product, brand, customer, and employee experiences – no insights experience required. With FC Live virtual focus groups and interviews, an Ad Effective solution, and survey automation capabilities, Fuel Cycle Ignition offers the only all-in-one agile insights ecosystem for supercharging the relationship between brands and their customers and serves the world’s most innovative brands including Google, Hulu, Tufts Health Plan, Carhartt and more. To learn how Ignition can take your research to the next level, visit fuelcycle.com. [00:00:00] Jamin Brazil: Hey everybody. This is Jamin, you're listening to the Happy Market Research podcast. Thanks so such for tuning in. My guest today is Mario Carrasco. Mario is the cofounder of ThinkNow based out of Burbank, California area. Mario, thanks for being on the podcast. [00:00:19] Mario Carrasco: Thanks for having me, excited to be on. [00:00:23] Jamin Brazil: This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Today almost everyone has taking a survey,

Episode Notes

In this episode, we’ll hear from Mario Carrasco, cofounder of ThinkNow on his opinion and experiences about diversity in consumer insights. 

Find Mario Online:

Website: https://thinknow.com

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/marioxcarrasco 

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.

This episode is brought to you by Fuel Cycle Ignition. Ignition is the agile insights platform that empowers leaders and their teams to improve product, brand, customer, and employee experiences – no insights experience required. With FC Live virtual focus groups and interviews, an Ad Effective solution, and survey automation capabilities, Fuel Cycle Ignition offers the only all-in-one agile insights ecosystem for supercharging the relationship between brands and their customers and serves the world’s most innovative brands including Google, Hulu, Tufts Health Plan, Carhartt and more. To learn how Ignition can take your research to the next level, visit fuelcycle.com.

[00:00:00]

Jamin Brazil: Hey everybody. This is Jamin, you're listening to the Happy Market Research podcast. Thanks so such for tuning in. My guest today is Mario Carrasco. Mario is the cofounder of ThinkNow based out of Burbank, California area. Mario, thanks for being on the podcast.

[00:00:19]

Mario Carrasco: Thanks for having me, excited to be on.

[00:00:23]

Jamin Brazil: This episode is brought to you by SurveyMonkey. Today almost everyone has taking a survey, 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 has launched a fast and easy way to collect market feedback. They have seven new expert solutions for concept and creative testing. With build in customized methodologies, AI powered insights, and industry benchmarking, you can get feedback on your ideas from your target market in a presentation ready format, any by the way, in as little as an hour. For more information of SurveyMonkey's market research solutions visit surveymonkey.com/market-research. That's surveymonkey.com/market-research. Mention the Happy Market Research podcast to the SurveyMonkey sales team before June 30th for a discount off your first project. So, how long have you been in the industry?

[00:01:30]

Mario Carrasco: The industry, I've been saying I feel like ten years, for ten years. So, a little bit over ten years now. Oh no, now, see I'm wrong again. ThinkNow has been around for like nine years now and I was in the industry about four or five years before that.

[00:01:48]

Jamin Brazil: That's awesome man, you've made it - I think you've been around - if it's any indication, everybody I know which is probably self - actually it's 100%...