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Tag Archives: methodology
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doubt cast over value of web polls
Robert Jaques of IT Week reviews a recent study reported in Journal of Consumer Research by London Business School and Duke University that suggestions that people respond very differently to the same question when typing rather than speaking an answer. … Continue reading

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 →