The Seven Habits of Highly-Stressed Survey Researchers
Pretty busy here. Where I used to carefully write a questionnaire, run a pre-test, run a pilot and then launch – now I have to get it all right the...
Consumer Intimacy by the Numbers
What's the formula that turns a brand's research into consumer intimacy? A new case study from Warc argues that this is the wrong question to ask....
The Top 10 Research Presentations that Stuck With Me
Before I head off to my first conference of 2014, NetGain 8.0 in Toronto, I decided to look back on some of the great presentations I saw last year...
2014 Market Research Conferences
Here are some of the 2014 market research conferences on our radar. January 23 The Creativity Lab – Science MRS London January 29 Media Insights...
Plan for 2014 by Planning for 2030
This year's Festival of NewMR concluded with a live debate on "What's Hot in 2014?" Much of it looked at where we are, and I've already written...
Survey Fail
A friendly reminder that you should always have someone else review your questionnaire. You don’t want to commit the great acts of survey fail that...
Research Disruption: Better, Faster, Cheaper
James apologized for taking the air out of the room, but said that the pace and scale of disruption were changing consumer industries so rapidly...
Fast Fashion or Futurists? The Diverging Roles of Market Research
Robert Moran of the Brunswick Group presented at the Greenbook Insights Innovation Exchange in Philadelphia today. He argued that research needs to...
Marketing VPs vs. Aliens: Gamification Phones Home
At the ESOMAR 3D Digital Dimensions conference in Boston this week, Olga Churkina of Fresh Intelligence Research and Tristan Morris of PepsiCo...
Is the Ideal Survey Length 20 Minutes?
As part of the CASRO webinar series, Inna Burdein, Ph.D., director of panel analytics with the NPD Group, discussed her research into survey length...
Respondents as Robots
Besides leading questions, another common mistake I see in the draft questionnaires I’m sent is treating respondents like robots. Something about...
Agile Research for Rapid Response and Iterative Development
Matt Warta of GutCheck, an online qualitative research firm, and Brad White of Prophet, a brand and marketing consultancy, discussed agile market...