Updated Names for 5 Market Research Training Courses

Dear Friends, Five of our market research courses are being renamed (see table below). I just want you to know, so that if you go looking for a course and… Continue reading Updated Names for 5 Market Research Training Courses

Getting People to Use Your Market Research Results: Part 3

Effective communication of complex information is a challenge in many professions. For example, consider the challenges faced by climate scientists: they have powerful, complex data that needs to be communicated… Continue reading Getting People to Use Your Market Research Results: Part 3

Boosting Your Resume’s CX Quotient: Tips for Market Researchers

CX is hot. Hiring managers are often looking for “CX experience.” Many cool job openings these days have “CX” in the title. As a market researcher, you can with absolute integrity refresh your resume with today’s semantics—especially if you have done any of the 7 project types described above. You may not have known it, but you have been a customer experience expert for years. And now is the time to start bragging about it.

My Date with Big Bird at Quirk’s Brooklyn

Two days at the Brooklyn Quirk’s event went by in an instant! The event drew a lot of attendees from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But I also met… Continue reading My Date with Big Bird at Quirk’s Brooklyn

Riffs On-demand: Mini Lectures on Hot Research Topics

Research Rockstar students now have access to free on-demand (OD) content. We are mining hundreds of hours of class recordings to pull out short segments on various qualitative and quantitative topics. Each research “riff” is 5 to 15 minutes in duration. Topics now available: 95% Confidence Interval Defined, Statistical Terminology, and report writing tips.

Have You Heard the Big News? A New Professional Association for Research & Insights Professionals!

The Marketing Research Association (MRA) and the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO) are merging: the new Insights Association officially launches January 1, 2017.

Six New Training Classes for Market Researcher Professionals Seeking Career Advancement

A recent survey of Research Rockstar clients tested interest in 22 specific training topics. Based on the survey results, and subsequent follow-up interviews with select participants, the following topics have been chosen:…………

What new class topics should we offer in 2017?

What training topics would you like to see for the market research and customer insights profession?

Be Part of the Marketing Research Community: Attend CRC in San Francisco

Three days in San Fran with hundreds of my market research colleagues? Count me in.
The MRA’s Corporate Researchers Conference is coming up September 26-28, and will be held in San Francisco.

Quirk’s Event 2016 Workshop: Mobile Self-Ethnography

…students will learn about the new area of ethnography which allows people to basically research themselves. With mobile devices, consumers can opt-in to a research experience by taking in-the-moment picture or video content, capturing sound bites or scanning QR codes anytime or anywhere. This might just be the most promising aspect of mobility in market research.