Resources for the Research Community
2014 Most Read Here are our most-read Research Access articles in 2014: Implicit vs. Explicit Techniques in Market Research by Aaron Reid Revenue Growth of the Top 50 U.S. Market Research Firms The Potential of iBeacon for Mobile Research The Selfie & The Rise of Mobile Ethnography Survey Data As A Key Ingredient 6 Ways [...]
Each day we’re counting down our Top 12 blog posts of 2014. Coming in at #3 is this presentation recap originally published in June. At the Marketing Research Association’s Insights & Strategy Conference in June, Sriram Subramanian (@sriram_s) of ZoomRX introduced researchers to the potential of, and possible problems with, iBeacon, saying “technology doesn’t always [...]
Each day we’re counting down our Top 12 blog posts of 2014. Coming in at #4 is this essay originally published February 18. Last week, #SelfieOlympics trended on Twitter, as Olympic medalists, other Olympians, and Sochi spectators began sharing selfies: photos of themselves taken by their smart phones and uploaded to the web. While selfies [...]
Each day we’re counting down our Top 12 blog posts of 2014. Coming in at #9 is this book excerpt originally published August 12. The following is an excerpt from The Handbook of Mobile Market Research: Tools and Techniques for Market Researchers by Ray Poynter, Navin Williams, and Sue York. Published under license from John [...]
Each day we’re counting down our Top 12 blog posts of 2014. Coming in at #11 is this presentation recap originally published September 19. Are you still staring at 10 people behind some glass in a focus group facility, or asking people in a traditional online survey to recall the products they considered, their behavioral [...]
A lot of researchers and moderators we speak are concerned that consumers using mobile phones are typically on-the-go, that is to say they are moving or en route somewhere and using their mobile to fill in time. But research shows that this is stereotype is unjust. Consumers aren’t suffering Mobile User Attention Deficit Disorder! Mobile [...]
Are you conducting research among mobile respondents yet? Autumn is conference season, and a thousand of us just returned from IIR’s The Market Research Event (TMRE) conference where we learned, among other things, about research among mobile survey takers. Currently, for market research industry spending: 5% is for research conducted on a smartphone or tablet [...]
It’s official! According to the most recent edition of GRIT, available today, mobile surveys and market research online communities are no longer emerging techniques; both are used by a majority of researchers: 56% of respondents have used MROCs, up from 49% in the last survey 9 months ago The growth in mobile has been even [...]
Having talked to five research experts utilizing mobile in different ways, understood their perspectives on the pros and cons, I have come away with a clear sense that mobile really does offer MR something different. We need to take it seriously. Coming off the fence: yes, we should at least have a sense of urgency [...]
The Problem The market research industry is at a crossroads as client demands push survey length longer while respondents increasingly take survey from smartphones (see Brian Jones’ previous blog on mobile market research trends and best practices). Many advanced analytical techniques require ~15-25 minutes (or more) worth of questioning to function, but many smartphone survey [...]
