High Heels & eLearning Lessons

eLearning

As an eLearning designer at Research Rockstar, I am using my past experience as classroom trainer to make sure our materials appeal to diverse learners—including those who may be more accustomed to learning market research via in-person training formats.

Market Research Training At Your Location

Are you training a team of 5 or more people?

Then private training at your location may be the best value for your training dollar.

With groups of this size, on-site training provides four important benefits

Recipe for eLearning: A Letter from Research Rockstar’s Director of eLearning Curriculum

President, Kathryn Korostoff, was clear: it was time to raise the bar on self-paced learning for the market research industry. She gave me a mission: continue delivering the same high-quality content while improving student comprehension and retention. Oh, and keep it fun.

I knew this would be harder than “just add water.” Still, at least I had a library of existing, great content with which to work, and for eLearning developers like myself, that’s not always the case.

To get started,…

Getting Your Training Requests Approved: All in the Timing

Here are three tips to keep in mind when submitting your training budget request:
1.Add context. When submitting your training request, put it in context. Rather than simply say, “I want to take a class on writing qualitative research reports,” show why. For example, “I want to learn new ways to analyze qualitative research so that I can really get the most value from our research investments.” …

7 Strong: Meet Our Amazing Market Research Instructors

Research Rockstar’s instructor roster is now 7 strong. Well, 8 if you count our founder, Kathryn Korostoff who also teaches. Check out the Research Rockstars who teach our market research classes:….

Spring Training for Market Researchers

March and April market research training classes.

Jeffrey Henning & Kathryn Korostoff Are Going to Camp

Research Rockstar is thrilled to announce that Jeffrey Henning, president of Researchscape, will be a “camp counselor” at this summer’s Camp Rockstar for market researchers. He joins Kathryn Korostoff…

Is Market Research a High-stress Job? 4 Tips for Mitigating Project Risk Factors

Is Market Research a high-stress job?

It certainly can be.

But I can also tell you, after 25 years of doing market research, that there are known strategies for managing project-related stress. My favorite is one Research Rockstar students hear me talk about frequently: the preemptive strike.

What Can Market Research Learn from Political Polling and Laboratory Mice?

Since we’ve just completed an election cycle, with its flood of political polling data, let’s take a look at what market researchers can learn from our not-too-distant cousins: political pollsters….

Sample Size for Market Research Surveys: How Big Is Big Enough?

Sample Size for Survey ResearchHow many people need to take your survey, for you to have confidence in the results? I can answer that question two ways; a long, academic way, or a short, friendly way.
Today, let’s take the short and friendly approach.