Resources for the Research Community
Recent news from Congress… House Guts Census Funding For FY2015 What Happened: Before passing legislation to fund the Census Bureau and dozens of other federal agencies in Fiscal Year 2015, the House of Representatives indiscriminately sliced and diced the Census budget. It included only $973 million for the Census Bureau, an amount likely insufficient to [...]
Everyone is talking about Generation Z these days. You know them … they are today’s tweens and teens—the kids just behind the Millennials, to whom everyone wants to talk. And with the buzz about Generation Z come the inevitable suggestions on how best to reach this group of young up-and-comers for online market research. These [...]
On May 30, 2014, Revelation, the web and mobile qual research applications company I founded in 2007, became part of FocusVision, the global standard in video streaming of focus groups and in person interviews. While this merger is obviously a very significant and positive event for our two companies, I believe it also is a [...]
Getting motivated can sometimes be hard. As technology continues to evolve it makes our lives and work easier, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re any more motivated. I may have a to-do list app that synchronizes across all my devices using cloud technology, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m any more motivated to finish those tasks. [...]
The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened up new opportunities for market researchers on a global scale. Think: biometrics, geo-location, presence sensing, etc. The emerging possibilities enabled by mobile market research are exciting and worth exploring, but we can’t ignore the impact that small screens are already having on market research. For example, unintended mobile respondents make up about [...]
Today it is preached that we must be one kind of marketing researcher – a business consultant – in order to be relevant for the industry’s future. However, in my experience, I think there are a number of overarching styles that can excel in the industry moving forward. Here’s a brief overview of the researchers [...]
Recently, I came across an interesting Bloomberg Businessweek article discussing the limitations associated with focus groups and the ways some companies were using solutions (such as Invoke’s large-scale online focus groups…ahem, I work there) to overcome these limitation: Shoot the Focus Group. The article starts out with Yahoo!’s then-CMO Cammie Dunaway talking about killing focus [...]
The Game Has Changed In the last 10 years, the US and other countries have seen a number of technological shifts with respect to access to information, analytical software capabilities, and the sheer amount of data available to the business world. Most notably, widespread broadband adoption, the ability to search the Internet for information, and [...]
The most popular research tweet on the Twitter #MRX hashtag in the past fortnight was Tom Ewing’s tweet of this screencap: Cor, I can see why Apple don’t make a big thing about their market research – pages of grids, stone age stuff. #mrx pic.twitter.com/uV1rbPDTSq — To Mewing! (@tomewing) May 1, 2014 Some folks on [...]
I attended a CASRO conference in New Orleans back in late ’08 or early ’09. The topic was ‘Online Panel Quality.’ I’ve often thought about that conference: the speakers, the various sessions I attended. I recall the session about satisficing, which at the time was being newly introduced into the MR space (the word itself [...]
