The multi-award winning team at Ruby Cha Cha uses innovative market research to provide insights and create business stories that allow their clients to solve marketing challenges.
In this interview co-owners Ellen and Kristin discuss.
How key roles are split between the two partners.
The benefits and challenges of co-ownership
Leadership from the staff's perspective
About the In Her Shoes series
In Her Shoes is a regular video series presented by the Australian Businesswomen's Network and BNet.com.au. Each interview features an inspiring businesswoman and her strategies for success.
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Kristin loves to combine business smarts with fun and innovative ways of solving marketing problems. She is a quantitative and strategy specialist, has authored two books in services marketing and is a recent winner of the ESOMAR global research excellence award. Kristin established ruby cha cha to ...
Ellen Baron has two key streams of expertise: consumer psychology and brand development. She is one of Australia's leading qualitative researchers, semiotician and ethnography specialist with a background in the psychology of addiction. She has first-hand experience here.
Ellen established ruby cha...
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