Proud to introduce an application, running on our platform, that offers a path to enhancing ones strategy by letting you explore data signals that live outside your walls that may be impacting the key performance metrics for your business ... SignalRadar, from Nitrogen.ai, is a game-changing approach to managing company performance. The SignalRadar AI platform analyzes billions of data signals that correlate to a company’s performance metrics and uncovers emerging trends as events across the U.S. and around the globe unfold in real time. SignalRadar provides visual analytics that identify factors impacting a company’s performance and the collaborative tools that make it easy to take actions on the insights Signal Radar uncovers. SignalRadar works because it constantly monitors trends across many thousands of highly diverse signals that are determined to be correlates to your performance metrics. By casting a very wide net, SignalRadar finds trend changes and disruptions relevant to your performance metrics, thereby alerting you to potential opportunities or threats that impact your business. Our proprietary time-series platform identifies trend changes among millions of time-series datasets very rapidly and reports on identified categories of interest so that a manager can immediately act. We manage all the functions necessary for secure access to the massive time series database that fuels SignalRadar: core ML/AI-enabled technology, data catalog, search & recommendation engines, governance, access controls, ever expanding data sources, and the publication engine. We work with select performance metrics driven companies on projects to train SignalRadar models and measure business outcomes. To learn how SignalRadar can help you improve the management of your business visit our website www.nitrogen.ai SignalRadar … Business radar for turbulent times.

SamplingWorks! exists to support the art and science of Product Sampling. Mission: We inspire people to recognize Product Sampling’s Strategic Value by promoting the continual improvement of the entire industry ecosystem.Sampling Works! intends to be a vibrant, thoughtful, open organization providing a platform for sharing best practices, innovation, education, standards, and peer interaction for the marketing community. We offer: How Sampling works, Overview of Product Sampling Ecosystem, Directory of We offer: How Sampling works, Overview of Product Sampling Ecosystem, Directory of vendors, News and frank opinions about this ever changing industry.

StartSampling grew from a concept in 1999 to a $30 million revenue company by 2007. StartSampling navigated the ‘Great Recession’ continuing to operate and provide valued service to our customer base. We, reluctantly, ceased all operations in Q1 of 2015.StartSampling's mission reflected what we felt needs to happen in our marketing world circa 2015: "To Inspire Deeper Connections Between Brands and People" StartSampling achieved this mission by working with brands from consumer packaged goods and other industries to reach consumers eager to ‘Try Something New’ across myriad on and off line venues. StartSampling provided full services spanning the full "How Sampling Works" process - including Sample Deliverable (packaging, sample efficiency); Consumer Engagement (Targeting, Media, order collection); Production and Distribution (List, Print, Fulfill, Logistics & Transportation), while insuring solid Measurement (on-line reporting permitting real time monitoring & adjustment, Market Research, Data Driven Marketing tools and CRM) while providing full transparency across this entire value chain. At cessation of operations our service lines included true one stop shopping for all of a brands product sampling needs. Customer Service Teams served as a single point of contact for the brands and retailers we worked with as well as the many agencies we serviced. Of particular note was the StartSampling Retailer Network which featured many high profile retailers who utilized StartSampling services to assist them in providing their web traffic access to sample centers and offers in many unique ways.

Internal supplier @ CRMS (Including renting PC's with floppy drives for 'computer based interviewing" at malls!). When CRMS "went away" (one of the saddest career days in my life) I moved into Post Cereals division as part of MRD. Amazing group of people in Research, intense learning ground.