Market Research

Does Online Panel Quality S*ck?

A huge topic for Market Research & Insights professionals is data quality, and in most cases, a key component of survey research data quality is driven by sample quality. The catch? Many of us don’t have our own pristine, in-house sample sources. Sure, some research teams primarily do research with

Best Practices

Is it Really Necessary to Pre-Test our Questionnaires? 

A surgeon wouldn’t begin surgery without first ensuring that their medical instruments were sanitized. And most professional researchers wouldn’t launch a new survey without first testing their instruments (the questionnaire). But these days there is a lot of temptation to skip the pre-test in order to shave off a day or three

Market Research

Ethnographic Research is Hot & Employers are Seeking it

Ethnographic research is a hot topic these days. Just check out recent market research-related job postings on Indeed and other job boards, and you will see it is widely mentioned as a desired skill (see image for a few recent examples). Sure, these days we are doing online or “mobile”

Market Research

Would You Rather Be a Market Researcher…or a Fly?

Social Media Listening Lessons from Microsoft Would a market researcher rather be a spider, a bee or a fly? A fly, of course! Article Synopsis, “Market research at the speed of social media: How to leverage social intelligence” As market researchers, we would all love to be the proverbial “fly on the

Data Analysis

Coming Soon: Market Research eLearning on Writing Quant, Data Viz and SPSS 201

Don’t forget to save your spots for our upcoming courses. There are 7 courses with real-time sessions available from now through the end of December! And as always, even if you miss a live session, you can always use the recordings (most of our international students only use the recordings due