Ep. 237 - Zontziry "Z" Johnson - The Importance of Adding Rural Populations to Your Research

My guest today is Zontziry “Z” Johnson, VP of Customer Transformation at Zappi. Zappi helps global brands make better decisions to drive business growth, shape product development, and enhance their advertising and branding efforts. Prior to joining Zappi, Z has been a market research manager at Microsoft, a director at Ipsos, an independent consultant, and worked at various market research firms. Additionally, she has a storied long-form blog called MRxplorer and has recently added a podcast to her thought leadership.  Find Zontziry Online: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zontziry  Twitter: www.twitter.com/zontziry Website: www.zappi.io/web Find Jamin Online: Email: [email protected]  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: 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  This Episode’s Sponsor:  This episode is brought to you by HubUx. HubUx reduces project management costs by 90%. Think of HubUx as your personal AI project manager, taking care of all your recruitment and interview coordination needs in the background. The platform connects you with the right providers and sample based on your research and project needs. For more information, please visit HubUx.com. [00:00] On episode 237, I'm interviewing Z. Johnson, VP of Customer Transformation at Zappi, but first a word from our sponsor. [00:10] This episode is brought to you by HubUx.  HubUx is a productivity tool for qualitative research.  It creates a seamless workflow across your tools and team.  Originally, came up with the idea as I was listening to research professionals in both the quant and qual space complain about and articulate the pain, I guess more succinctly, around managing qualitative research.  The one big problem with qualitative is it’s synchronous in nature, and it requires 100% of the attention of the respondent. This creates a big barrier, and, I believe,