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 about the discussion of what was hot in 2013 – online communities. In a positive sign, in a...

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 these survey authors did. 10. Make sure your choices match the question. 9. Double-check the labels on your scale. 8....

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 that businesses were rushing to keep up, and as a result would change consumer insight as well. The old objections 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 shared a fascinating mobile ethnography case study which featured a game of Marketing VPs vs. Aliens. And the great news is...

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 and effort. The session moderator – John Bremer, the chief research officer of Toluna – began by discussing the...