How Will WFH Trends Impact Market Research & Insights Work in 2022?

The Work from Home (WFH) boom has impacted Market Researchers from two very different angles: first as employees/workers ourselves, and second as research methodologists. In this episode, the discussion tackles… Continue reading How Will WFH Trends Impact Market Research & Insights Work in 2022?

Essential Market Research Tips: Documenting Your Sampling Plan

For professional researchers, properly documenting your sampling plan is critical to ensuring a high-quality market research process. What is sampling and why is it important? If you are new to… Continue reading Essential Market Research Tips: Documenting Your Sampling Plan

Walking Isn’t Running: How to Amp Up Your Research Writing

For many people in the Market Research & Insights profession, the fun part of our projects is delivering the results in written reports. This is where we really get to… Continue reading Walking Isn’t Running: How to Amp Up Your Research Writing

Ideation in Online Qualitative Research

Now that online qualitative methods have become prevalent (as a percent of overall research done measured by either number of projects done or overall budget)[1], many of us have had… Continue reading Ideation in Online Qualitative Research

Top 10 Email Etiquette Tips for Market Researchers

Have you ever sent an email to a supplier only to get an unexpectedly chilly response? Have you ever sent an email to a client requesting direction on an important… Continue reading Top 10 Email Etiquette Tips for Market Researchers

Make Your List and Check It Twice — for Questionnaire Design

I’ll admit it, I am a list person: I organize my thoughts by making lists and I enjoy checking things off my to-do list I’m a checklist app aficionado (my… Continue reading Make Your List and Check It Twice — for Questionnaire Design

For Market Research Excellence: Stop

7 times when market researchers need to stop. Knowing when to stop is a discipline. But after 25 years in the market research business, I know that some of my best work has been when I stopped doing something—even if just temporarily.

When the Conclusion Isn’t Supported by the Methodology (and why RateStars is utter nonsense)

We sometimes have cases where the data and the conclusion seem to match, but a closer look and you realize the methodology was fundamentally unable to support the conclusion. Today’s case in point: RateStars.