Category Archives: methodology

Satisfaction Surveys, Qualifying Attributes and Key Point of Differentiation

Customer research, taken out of its appropriate marketplace context, can be extremely misleading. Consider the scenario presented by Lior Arussy of the Strativity Group who in a recent DestinationCRM article where a research firm, after conducting a study to help … Continue reading

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RelevantView Adds Card Sort to Online Research Capabilities

For those of you tired of simple multiple choice radio box, check box kind of online survey questions, RelevantView has created a new online survey tool that offers the ability to have users participate in an online card sort much … Continue reading

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Research Dashboards

David Tebbut of IWRBlog (Information World Review) recently posted some interesting observations about Confirmit’s dashboard application, in which an online survey system is used to track customer attitudes in real time and report the results in an automatically updated "dashboard" … Continue reading

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Consumers Rebel Against Marketers’ Endless Surveys

Last week 30 of the top executives in market research met for a rountable at the Research Industry Summit for Improving Respondent Cooperation. It would appear that response rates of less than 10 percent are becoming more common, with reports … Continue reading

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Conducting Research in Virtual Communities

Mario Menti of msurveys.com recently posted a note on his blog describing how easy it was to create a survey, solicit responses, and then compensate the respondents in SecondLife. A very interesting, unique and possibily even useful experiment to be … Continue reading

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Is the Internet changing marketing research?

Roy Poynter of The Future Place has posted a fascinating, thoughtful note about a session he led at a recent meeting of the World Association of Research Professionals (ESOMAR) in which the topic of discussion was the degree to which … Continue reading

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Survey Software vs. Online Research Firms

Jared Heyman, president of Infosurv, recently published a white paper to Knowledgestorm.com entitled "The Benefits of Hiring a Full-Service Online Research Firm — Software vs. Online Research Firms," in which he pretty much "proves" that survey software should only be used … Continue reading

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