Tag Archives: fieldwork
Thank you millennials for bringing healthy and flavourful back to food
We’ve all read the posts about how millennials killed fabric softener, banks, and bar soap. Millennials became the much-appreciated scapegoat for nearly any kind of product that failed to disrupt and meet the evolving needs of today’s consumers. But isn’t … Continue reading
How to design market research telephone interviews that generate top quality data
Despite the massive success of online surveys and the growing use of chatbot and artificial intelligence voice surveys, telephone surveys continue to be a popular research methodology. Whether you need qualitative or quantitative data, a telephone call is a great … Continue reading
Disadvantages of Qualitative Market Research: Science, subjectivity, and sample sizes
In our previous blog post, we shared numerous advantages of qualitative research from its ability to let participants experience concept materials in greater detail, to serendipitous findings, and helping marketers understand the imperfect human being behind the data. Of course, … Continue reading
Advantages of Qualitative Research: System 1, serendipity, and a bird in the hand
Qualitative research includes an extraordinary range of highly useful techniques. It includes techniques where numbers don’t matter (very much) and straying from the plan (a little bit) is a good thing. But what, specifically, is so great about qualitative research? … Continue reading
How To Design an Effective Mystery Shopper Process Flow
In this age of hyper-competition from digital retailers and marketplaces, customer experience has become the top method of differentiating one brand from another and mystery shopping is a great way to measure this. With this research technique, specially trained shoppers … Continue reading
Qualitative Research Techniques: Eight Characteristics of an Effective Market Research In-Depth Interviewer
It takes a special person to spend 90 minutes individually interviewing research participants about an unknown product and come away with interesting and insightful information. It takes an even more impressive person to be able to do that with 15 … Continue reading
Beth Depatie Joins Canadian Viewpoint as Call Centre & Project Manager
February 6, 2019, Markham: Beth Depatie has joined the Canadian Viewpoint team as Call Centre & Project Manager.In this role, Beth will be responsible for managing our Markham call centre operations, including managing day-to-day activities, ensuring telephone research projects are … Continue reading
The Value Is More Than The Nitty Gritty Details: Launching High Quality IHUTS and Product Tests for Marketing Research Studies
DIY has been a hot topic in the market research space for a number of years, ever since the first truly user-friendly questionnaire design tool was developed. Though DIY is a fabulous way for experienced researchers to get their results … Continue reading
Qualitative Research Techniques: Nine Attributes of a Successful Focus Group Moderator
A great focus group moderator has an abundance of interpersonal and communication skills that few people have and many people wish they had. If you’re building your learning plan for the year with hopes of becoming a great moderator yourself, … Continue reading
Marketing Research Essentials: How to Reduce the Risks of Marketing Innovation Through Consumer Research
Like the academic strategy of “Publish or Perish,” consumer brands often have a strategy of “Innovate or Die.” Many companies see product and service innovations as one of the most important paths to long-term business success. With innovation being a … Continue reading