Separate the Brand from the Team: UX vs UI

The liberal arts component of my education focused on psychology. One of the areas where I find that I’m able to draw on that base is question design. How to ask a question that doesn’t suggest or influence the answer?I recently took a customer satisfaction survey for...

Social Marketing and Holidays

Last year the Community Managers Meetup in New York City hosted a great panel on the topic of “Social Media, Brands and Holidays”, with participants including Kate Gold, Social Media Director at Food Network; Ying Huang, Senior Organic Marketing...

Sample Matching

One of the “magic” techniques for improvement representativeness is sample matching. The easiest way to think of sample matching is that is quota sampling on steroids. Now you are not trying to fill a cell of 50 respondents who are women aged 55+; you are trying to...

New MR Agile MR

I read this post by Ray Poynter and it started me thinking. For background, Ray is one of the first people that I followed when I came to the market research industry from a career in logistics and technology. I introduced myself at an ESOMAR conference and Ray was...