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Sponsored Content: Get Them Talking: Five Innovations in Qualitative Market Research

In this white paper from Encuity Research, the authors discuss five qualitative research developments that can help marketers affect behavior, overcome barriers to adoption and develop creative materials and messaging that get results.

Sponsored Content: What’s in your big data? Part 2: A path to profitable projects

As the second installment in a three-part series explaining how research firms can better use internal big data, this article focuses on delivering work efficiently and profitably.

Sponsored Content: What’s in your big data? Part 3: A path to better results

In the final installment of a three-part series, this article focuses on effectively evaluating the results of an internal big data project.

Sponsored Content: What’s in your big data? Part 1: A path to accurate plans

As the first installment of a three-part series, this article addresses how a research firm’s own internal “big data” can help it improve project planning to increase profitability.

Sponsored Content: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates

You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.

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For hotels cutting back on services to trim costs, how far is too far?

Results from a survey of prospective travelers show that some hotel amenities are more valued than others. As travel-industry firms look to cut costs, research can provide needed direction on where services can be reduced, re-priced or eliminated, as across-the-board changes run the risk of alienating large customer segments, possibly permanently.

Trade Talk: Reading the tea leaves in Boston

A report on some of the highlights of the Marketing Research Association’s 2004 conference.

By the Numbers: Make your international phone interviews successful in any language

When conducting international telephone interviews, choose your vendor carefully, the author says. Look for experience, native-speaking interviewers, flexibility, attention to detail and the use of in-language monitoring.

Trade Talk: A certifiably good idea

A look at the Marketing Research Association’s Professional Researcher Certification program.

Guidelines for easing parental fears regarding online research

When interviewing kids online, researchers can take the steps outlined here to reassure nervous parents that family privacy is being respected and that the online research process is safe.

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