Monthly Archives: September 2006

Decision Tree for Choosing a Qualitative Method

Susan Abbott of Customer Experience Crossroads has made available an interesting and useful decision tree to help you select the qualitative research methodology most appropriate to your project. You decide whether you need group interaction or no group interaction, synchronous discussion … Continue reading

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Using Blogs as Communities for Research

Better Business Blogging discusses a recent BusinessWeek article about the trend among high profile companies such as GSK, Kraft and Hewlett Packard of using online communities to research the perception of thier brands and the development of new products. Read … Continue reading

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MediaAnalyzer Opens U.S. Office

Germany-based MediaAnalyzer, whose unique AttentionTracking methodology combines survey research and eye tracking to monitor and understand the effectiveness of print advertising creative, web-page design and online ad effectiveness (as well as advertising via TV, direct mail, outdoor and other communications … Continue reading

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Improving Communications Between Questionnaire Designers and Survey Programmers

Phil and Ken Berry of BayaSoft recently gave a presentation at the 2006 American Marketing Association Research Conference designed to "equip market researchers with the tools and knowledge to design questionnaire documents that can be easily converted into online surveys, … Continue reading

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TiVo Announces Advertising Research Deal

TiVo and Information Resources Inc. have announced a new service that will link consumer DVR viewing patterns to purchase decisions. The service, called "IRI TiVo Consumer Insights Suite," will identify the DVR sales impact for individual products and brands based … Continue reading

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Perseus and WebSurveyor win CRM Rising Star

Perseus Development Corporation and WebSurveyor, combined under a newly formed holding company funded by Austin Ventures, announced today they were selected as a winner of the CRM Rising Star award by the editors of CRM Magazine. Perseus Development Corporation is … Continue reading

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SPSS 15: Has Bells and Whistles, Will Go Mainstream?

New article by Stephen Swoyer today on the The Data Warehousing Institute web site about SPSS’s goal of becoming more "mainstream," partly based on the results of its integration of desktop analytic applications and server-based predictive analytics applications such as … Continue reading

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Review of Qualtric’s SurveyZ

SurveyZ is an entirely web-based, self-service internet survey system developed and operated by Utah-based Qualtrics. It offers a variety of advanced capabilities, including unique survey questions, branching, looping, piping, trigger-based responses and form grading as well as an unparalleled collection … Continue reading

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Review of ObjectPlanet’s Opinio 5

Opinio 5 is a well-designed, easy to use and highly customizable internet survey system published by Oslo, Norway based ObjectPlanet. The software, which is available both as a hosted service and as an application you can install on your own … Continue reading

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Tim Macer reviews E-Tabs Autograph 2.0

U.K. based Research journal reviewer Tim Macer recently published a review of ETabs AutoGraph 2.0, a program designed to assist in the “desktop creation of indivudual or repetitive charts and tables from most industry-standard tables for output to Excel or … Continue reading

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