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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Keller Fay Group, an award winning marketing research and consulting company specializing in word-of-mouth marketing, has hired Tommy Crawford as Vice President of New Business Development and Matt Phillips as Account Director. Crawford comes to Keller Fay with both word of mouth marketing as well as marketing research experience, including over 15 years as Vice President of Global Sales and Services with ABI Research and Vice...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., and DALLAS, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new survey published by the The Land Report, more people are investing in undeveloped land and sowing the seeds of the United States' economic recovery while protecting America's greatest resource, the land. Data show the private holdings of the top landowners have grown nearly 20 percent over the last five years. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121004/CL86630 ) In the magazine's fall...
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In an era when many marketers are focused on tapping into social influence online, new tools for influencing offline conversations were unveiled today at Advertising Week by CBS, Nielsen, and word of mouth experts the Keller Fay Group. Marketers across the nation are seeking to find ways to maximize word of mouth about their products and services, recognizing that a recommendation from a friend, colleague or relative is the most trusted form...
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Keller Fay Group (kellerfay.com) today announced that NBC Universal has selected the word of mouth market research company to monitor and analyze viewers' brand-related conversations that will take place during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Word of mouth measurement is a new addition to NBC Universal's Olympics research initiative for 2010, part of a high profile suite of research activities that NBC Universal has dubbed "The Billion Dollar Lab." Keller...
Volunteer weather watchers in Florida who are part of a nationwide observation network did a great job monitoring Tropical Storm Fay, experts say. Melissa Griffin, the co-state coordinator for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network in Florida, said her branch was able to collect vital information regarding the 2008 storm that was then passed along to the National Weather Service, USA Today said Monday. By having a dense network of dedicated observers, Florida CoCoRaHS was...
By TERESA STEPZINSKI BRUNSWICK - Tropical Storm Fay is gone, but marine trash including plastic bottles, light bulbs and broken chunks of plastic foam remain in her wake, trashing the area's marshes. Wrack, which is dead marine and marsh vegetation, occurs naturally, but the storm blew man-made trash into the mix and left it packed against the shoreline, said Spud Woodward, Georgia Department of Natural Resources assistant director for marine fisheries. "Wrack is Mother Nature's recycling...
By Sadie Gray Eleven people have died in Florida in havoc wreaked by tropical storm Fay, which has hit the state four times since arriving from the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. Most storms pass through Florida within a couple of days but Fay has set a record by hitting land then retreating out to sea four times, most recently yesterday, when 20ins of rain fell in some areas and others were raked by 45mph winds. Among the deaths, at least three people were thought to have been killed in road...
Tropical Storm Fay remains deadly after its unprecedented six Florida landfalls, say officials. They point to a death toll of 11 in Florida, including one death by carbon-monoxide poisoning, two drownings, seven killed in traffic accidents and, most recently, an electric company linesman electrocuted in Gadsen County Friday evening, The Miami Herald reported Saturday. Dangers from downed trees and power lines, as well as flooded roads and homes, could even increase as Fay crosses the...
By JASON HARDIN A key to the Triad's water supply this year changed direction off the coast of Florida on Monday evening, leaving it unlikely the area will see any beneficial rain. Tropical Storm Fay has the potential to drop much-needed rain across the Southeast as it comes ashore. But a change in the forecast track for Fay suggests what's left of the storm later this week won't dump desperately needed rainfall on North Carolina as initially expected. "It appears now that the chances are...
