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 becoming a survey author inspires us to suddenly think of customers, prospects, and employees as automatons with total...

Where Do Market Research Ideas Come From?

Part of NewMR’s mission is to be at the boundaries of new ideas. To that end, NewMR, in partnership with Greenbook Blog and Research Access, surveyed 125 market researchers about sources of inspiration and change for the industry: Where do market research ideas come...

Online Research Communities are a Highlight of 2013

The Festival of NewMR is an annual virtual conference, with webinars scheduled throughout many different times to reach a global audience. This year’s Festival concluded Friday with a live discussion with Ray Poynter, the founder of NewMR; Lenny Murphy,...

Festival of NewMR 2013

Ray Poynter, author of The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research, this week presented his fourth annual Festival of NewMR, a global series of webinars staggered around the clock to make sure that participants from all over the world could participate. This...