October 10, 2022

Ep. 573 – Why Invest in Customer Satisfaction – Michael Brereton, the Executive in Residence for the Department of Marketing at Michigan State University

25 minutes

My guest today is Michael Brereton, the Executive in Residence for the Department of Marketing at Michigan State University.

Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States.

Prior to joining MSMUR’s program as Executive in Residence, Michael served 27 years at MaritzCX, 11 of which were as the President and CEO. Meritz is a Customer Experience company rebranded as InMonent. Michael stated his career on the client side at General Motors.

Find Michael Online:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-brereton-a35a7620/ Website: https://broad.msu.edu/

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Music:

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

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[00:00:00]

Jamin Brazil: Hey, everybody. I'm Jamin, host of the Happy Market Research Podcast, which you're listening to. Our guest today is Michael Brereton, executive in residence at the Department of Marketing at Michigan State University. Before joining the MSMUR's program as the executive in residence, Michael served for 27 years at MaritzCX, 11 of which were as the president and CEO. Maritz is a customer experience company rebranded as InMoment. Michael started his career on the client side at General Motors. Michael, thanks so much for joining me on the podcast.

[00:00:37]

Michael Brereton: Hi. It's great to be here Jamin, as always.

[00:00:45]

Jamin Brazil: The Michigan State University's Master of Science in Marketing Research program delivers the number-one ranked in science and analytics degree in three formats: full-time on campus, full-time online, and part-time online. New for 2022, if you can't commit to their full degree program, simply begin with one of their three-course certifications: Insights Design or Insights Analysis. In addition to the certification, all the courses you at broad.msu.edu/marketing. Again, broad.msu.edu/marketing. HubUX is a research operations platform for private panel management, qualitative automation, including video audition questions, and surveys. For a limited time, user seats are free. If you'd like to learn more or create your own account, visit hubux.com. So this is part of our series of introduction into market research. This will be one of the chapters in an upcoming book that I'm co-collaborating on with people like yourself, "The Market Research Field Guide". Today we're going to be talking about customer satisfaction, specifically as a discipline inside of market research. What do you see in a modern context as the primary business questions that customer satisfaction is addressing?

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Michael Brereton: I think where we are evolving to ...

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