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. 



Find Rebecca Online:



LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccalbrooks/ Website: https://alteragents.com/ “Influencing Shopper Decisions” by Rebecca Brooks: https://alteragents.com/book-influencing-shopper-decisions 



Find Jamin Online:



Email: jamin@happymr.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazilTwitter: 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 







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Jamin Brazil: Hey everybody. 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 re-imagining 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. Rebecca, welcome to the show.



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Rebecca Brooks: Thanks, Jamin. Happy to be here.



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Jamin Brazil: The Michigan State University's Master of Science in marketing research program delivers the number one ranked insights 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 complete will build towards your graduation. If you're looking to achieve your full potential, check out MSU's program 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. I guess, I should say welcome back to the show. You were on pre-COVID.



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Rebecca Brooks: Was it pre-COVID? No, it was early COVID because-



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Jamin Brazil: Oh early COVID. That's right.



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Rebecca Brooks: Yeah. It was like towards the end of- or maybe, the fall of 2020. It was a dark time because we had- I think Trump haven't conceded the election. There were just a lot of things going on. So I think we talked about-



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Jamin Brazil: You're right. I can't wait- you know what?