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Need Help with Year End Crunch Time?

Are you expecting a heavy year-end crunch time? Will workload interfere with holiday time with family and friends? We have Rent-a-Researcher consultants who can help conquer your deadlines! Below are just a few of the researchers available to work on your market research projects. These are professionals you can rely on to create

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[Free Video] Market Research Jargon Alert: “Market” or “Audience”?

What do you hear more often: “market” or “audience”? And what’s the difference? I increasingly hear clients talk about their “target audience. ” And I notice that this is especially the case when working with marketing professionals (as opposed to other market research and insights peers). The truth is, some people

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Can You Think of at Least 3 Market Research Career Path Scenarios?

Why the focus on career planning? Because market research career paths are changing. Your next big career move could be quite different than what you may have envisioned just a year or two ago. To help market research and insights professionals refresh their career plans, I recently hosted a 2-part YouTube/podcast

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Is Big Data Creating New Market Research Career Paths?

I’m mad. Well, that may be too strong of a word. But I am certainly annoyed. Why? Because at every national market research conference I have attended for the past 3 years, there has been at least one session effectively titled, “Will big data kill market research?” It’s the wrong question. Big data is

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Hot Topics for Quantitative & Qualitative Researchers

Good news, Researcher Rockstar! We have 5 courses available for October. Just in time for “Back to School”! Yes, “Back to School” applies to us market researchers, too. So if you’ve been putting off some training, this is a great time to catch up. Registration is fast, and these courses are taught by

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Professional Survey Design: Reducing Wordiness = Reducing Potential Bias?

If you do survey research, you likely use Likert scales. Likert scales are often a great way to capture attitudes, self-reported behaviors and more. Unfortunately, I see a lot of questionnaires where the questions accompanying such rating scales are really wordy. For example, have you ever seen something like this? “Please indicate