In a previous post I discussed the basics for conducting online advertising testing. With the advent of online survey platforms the ability to test various advertising messages and formats is easier than ever. Gone are the days of renting large rooms and embedding ads in mock programs. The current...read more

Chapters in a book are self-contained entities which could stand alone, but are better suited to be part of a larger whole. The new revision to the Cvent online survey platform allows the researcher to group questions into a chapter. This new feature is well adapted for scoring sections within an...read more

If there were one industry that could truly benefit from consumer insight research, it is the restaurant industry. Granted there are the giants of the industry, e.g. McDonalds or Chik-fil-A, that have teams dedicated to dissecting every aspect of the customer experience, but the biggest gains can...read more

The joy of the Internet, amongst many, is that it has made the job of being a market researcher just a bit easier. It has also complicated many aspects of our daily lives - but that is a tale for another day. Here’s an example: I have been tasked with creating a survey to measure attitudes of...read more

Let’s now prepare for a return to the Political Silly Season. Sample size, confidence levels and intervals are critical to the public opinion polling process. However, another crucial aspect for consideration by researchers of all stripes is the nature of the sample and of the respondents.It is all...read more

Come one, come all may be a useful approach for some, but in today’s world of online market research it is wasteful. How do we assure we get data from the key groups we want to reach? That’s a simple answer we use quotas.Quotas are method of limiting who responds to the survey (or portions of it)...read more

Consumer and B2B marketing surveys have long been used to estimate demand. There are many routes to this type of information, but one of the easiest methods to employ in an online survey is the use of a pre and post question. In the sample below the survey author asked about behavior over the course...read more

Do early responders look different from later responders? This is a question we need to ask when conducting market research analysis. In my experience early responders tend to be somewhat more favorable to the cause under study, but the percentages generally do not change significantly as subsequent...read more

Recently, I came across a very interesting article in New York Times, How Company Learns Your Secrets.  In this article, the author Charles Duhigg describes the application of analytics and behavioral science to large retailers’ marketing efforts. The real fascinating part of the article was the...read more

The first survey a prospective panelist will see is their profile survey. An argument can be made that the profile survey is the most important survey a panelist will engage in. Why? As the starting point in the relationship, the profile survey gives us the opportunity to get to know the panelist...read more