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...

All Hail the Humble Median

At the 2013 Inbound Marketing conference, Nate Silver said, “The average is still the most useful mathematical tool ever invented.” I agree that it is powerful, but I would argue that in fact it is the median that is the most useful mathematical tool ever invented....

10 Tips for Mobile Diary Studies

Earlier this month, Chris Neal of Chadwick Martin Bailey shared with members of the New England chapter of the Marketing Research Association tips for running mobile diary studies, based on lessons learned from a recent project. For the Council of Research Excellence,...

Mobile Research Overcomes Fading Affect Bias

At the annual one-day conference of the New England chapter of the Marketing Research Association Wednesday, Amit Ghosh of the Forbes Consulting Group discussed the need for “in the moment” mobile market research. A key imperative driving mobile research is Fading...

Get Value from “Use-It-or-Lose-It” Budget

About two years after starting my first market research consulting firm, business was slow. With a week left before New Year’s, it was clear that we were not going to meet our goal for bookings. Then the phone rang. The phone never rang between Christmas and New...