Getting a 16-Word Survey Wrong [a Special Guest Post by Jeffrey Henning]

I’m a fan of Google Consumer Surveys’ limitation on question length. Google limits you to questions of no more than 125 characters long, primarily – I believe – for a better experience for readers of the sites of its publisher partners … [Guest post by Jeffrey Henning of Researchscape]

“Cheap, fast or good. Pick any two.”

Why is it so popular? Primarily because it does pass the gut test: market research projects that are fast and good are unlikely to be cheap. Ones that are cheap and fast are unlikely to be good, and so on…

AMA or MRA Annual Market Research Events: Which to Choose?

Do you prefer American Marketing Association (AMA) events or Marketing Research Association (MRA) events? This is a questions I get frequently from Research Rockstar students and other people I run into—even just recently at the MRA’s Joint Chapter conference in Miami. Who has time or money to attend two or

Survey Scales: Market Research Fundamentals

How many points in a scaled question is “enough”? That’s a pretty common question in survey design. If you’ve spent some time with online market research surveys, you’ve probably noticed that they often have five points. “Please rate your satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5, with one representing