Tag Archives: data collection
Why Is The Number Of Panelists Not The Best Criteria For Judging An Access Panel?
Research access panels are often the perfect way to gather opinions from hundreds or thousands of people from across the country. People have already consented to be contacted and share their opinions about a variety of topics, and they feel … Continue reading
The link between accessibility and growing your brand
8% of Americans have difficulty lifting or grasping. 8% of Americans have a vision impairment. 15% of Americans have a cognitive, mental, or emotional impairment. In total, about 19% of Americans and 22% of Canadians have a disability. These staggering … Continue reading
Download Our New eBook: Your Plain Language Guide to In-Home Product and Package Tests
Do you know whether frozen turkeys, beer, or fresh salads can take advantage of the In-Home Usage Test methodology? (Yes, they all can!) Or when to use an IHUT vs Cental Location Testing? Or how many extra products to request … Continue reading
Design Thinking for Market Researchers
The term Design Thinking can be intimidating. You’ve probably heard it used in lofty, high level terms times by highly creative people. But Design Thinking isn’t just for creative people building innovative new products. It’s an extremely relatable way of … Continue reading
How to write open-ended questions that lead to actionable insights
Whether you conduct interviews, discussion boards, focus groups, shop-alongs, questionnaires, or something else, open-ended questions are the most powerful questions that researchers have in their toolbox. The value they generate is undeniable. Let’s work through some of the pros and … Continue reading
Focus Groups Are Better Than Biometrics for Marketing Research
Yes, that’s a clickbait title. It’s also a very common and genuine sentiment. If you run a quick search on Twitter for “better than focus groups,” you can see that they take a lot of heat for not being the … Continue reading
A practical explanation of transparency for market and social researchers
The ICC/ESOMAR International Code on Market, Opinion, and Social Research and data Analytics identifies three fundamental principles for researchers. The first one focuses on transparency: When collecting personal data from data subjects for the purpose of research, researchers must be … Continue reading
It’s not easy to write a questionnaire and this is the proof
If you’re reading this post, chances are you know how to write. You’ve been writing your name since you were 4 years of age and you’ve been writing well composed sentences since you were about 10 years of age. Of … Continue reading
What if everything you’re doing to design a marketing research study is wrong?
Chances are, most everything you’re doing when it comes to marketing research is based on a template. You’ve got standardized questionnaire modules that you tweak and edit so that they’re relevant to each project. You’ve got a set of 3 … Continue reading
Is consumer recall of past purchases and behaviours fact or fake news?
What did you have for lunch today? What about last Tuesday? What about three weeks ago last Tuesday? Honestly, I have no clue what I had for lunch last Tuesday, let alone three weeks ago. And yet, these are the … Continue reading