Archive: respondent

Honesty of Responses: The 7 Factors at Play
Behavioral Science

Honesty of Responses: The 7 Factors at Play

30% of survey respondents lie. Here is why.

Jon Puleston

Jon Puleston

Vice President - Innovation at Lightspeed Research

Rethink River Sampling: The Savior of Your Panel Recruitment Strategy

Rethink River Sampling: The Savior of Your Panel Recruitment Strategy

Discover 3 new ways to integrate traditional and river sampling.

Mario Carrasco

Mario Carrasco

Identifying & Evaluating Sub-Optimal Responses in Online Surveys

Identifying & Evaluating Sub-Optimal Responses in Online Surveys

Holistic approach to survey design and analysis is needed for high-quality data

Hetul Bhavsar

Hetul Bhavsar

Director, Client Services & Operations, Schlesinger Quantitative at Schlesinger Group

The Right Reward: Fifty Percent of Respondents Demand It. How to Deliver?
The Respondent Experience

The Right Reward: Fifty Percent of Respondents Demand It. How to Deliver?

Boost engagement by rewarding respondents with incentives they actually want.

Jacilyn Bennett

Jacilyn Bennett

Researchers: Is There Poop in Your Brownies?
Research Methodologies

Researchers: Is There Poop in Your Brownies?

While research companies are pushing for speed in turn around time, often respondent and data quality is being sacrificed.

Ron Sellers

Ron Sellers

The Tragic Tale of Research Participants

The Tragic Tale of Research Participants

An exploration of findings from two recent industry reports on the participant experience and participant attitudes towards market research.

Melanie Courtright

Melanie Courtright

Is Your Sample Quality Getting Better or Worse?
Insights Industry News

Is Your Sample Quality Getting Better or Worse?

The latest GRIT Report delves into the topic of sample quality, and whether technology is improving the situation or making matters worse.

Phil Moyer

Phil Moyer

The Engagement Crisis: There is Light at the End of the Tunnel
Insights Industry News

The Engagement Crisis: There is Light at the End of the Tunnel

The lack of engagement from consumers/respondents in market research has generated a growing crisis in the industry.

Adriana Rocha

Adriana Rocha

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at eCGlobal

The Extinction of Consumer Feedback And The Efforts To Re-engage Consumers
Research Methodologies

The Extinction of Consumer Feedback And The Efforts To Re-engage Consumers

Addressing the ever-decreasing pool of willing research participants and drops in response rates

Greg Heist

Greg Heist

Chief Innovation Officer at Gongos

Six Reasons Why Microsurveys Are a GRIT 2016 Trend to Watch

Six Reasons Why Microsurveys Are a GRIT 2016 Trend to Watch

Microsurveys have gone from being a buzzed-about approach the industry was considering, to one that’s real and here today.

Tom Lancaster

Tom Lancaster

Research on Research Respondents: What Have We Learned?
Insights Industry News

Research on Research Respondents: What Have We Learned?

IIeX was a great experience for the Recollective team. We made connections, learned a lot and participated in collaborative problem solving.

Kerry Hecht

Kerry Hecht

Founder and CEO at 10k Humans

Personalizing Respondent Rewards for the Global Marketplace
Insights Industry News

Personalizing Respondent Rewards for the Global Marketplace

Today’s global marketplace necessitates a thoughtful and nimble approach to doing business.

Jonathan Price

Jonathan Price

Do We Have a Place in the Lives of Respondents?
Data Quality, Privacy, and Ethics

Do We Have a Place in the Lives of Respondents?

When we don’t value our respondents’ experience, our data becomes compromised.

Sima Vasa

Sima Vasa

Putting Memory Under the Microscope

Putting Memory Under the Microscope

What can be done to overcome the challenges around recall- and memory-bias in market research?

David Paull

David Paull

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Dialsmith LLC

Online Surveys Are Not Enough
Research Methodologies

Online Surveys Are Not Enough

Because of the simplicity and efficiency of online surveys, the market is quickly becoming oversaturated. So are online surveys doomed?

Tim Gorham

Tim Gorham

Do Respondents Even Understand Our Surveys?
Consumer Behavior

Do Respondents Even Understand Our Surveys?

Language can be imperfect. How often does the receiver of a message truly understand it exactly as the sender intended?

Allan Fromen

Allan Fromen

What Research Participants Say About Research
Insights Industry News

What Research Participants Say About Research

Time and time again, we’ve all heard talk in our industry around the quality of respondent databases and panel members.

Kerry Hecht

Kerry Hecht

Founder and CEO at 10k Humans

Communities Are Simply Conversations
Research Methodologies

Communities Are Simply Conversations

Brands are now using online communities. But there’s still a lot of misunderstanding about how simple a research community can be.

Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson

Online Panels: The Black Sheep of Market Research, Part 1.

Online Panels: The Black Sheep of Market Research, Part 1.

It seems people have forgotten the value that a market research panel truly provides.

Adriana Rocha

Adriana Rocha

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at eCGlobal

MR Realities: Panel Pains
Insights Industry News

MR Realities: Panel Pains

Have you ever signed up to be a member of on-line/mobile panels? Don’t – it is a nightmare experience.

Dave McCaughan

Dave McCaughan

Founder & Storyteller at BIBLIOSEXUAL

How Can the MR Industry #RewardBetter? CMOs Weigh In on the Power of Community
Research Methodologies

How Can the MR Industry #RewardBetter? CMOs Weigh In on the Power of Community

The right rewards and incentives are a large part of the solution as well as another increasingly important concept: community.

Jonathan Price

Jonathan Price

The Focus Group Turns 60: Time For An Upgrade?
Research Methodologies

The Focus Group Turns 60: Time For An Upgrade?

Make sure you know about tech-inspired methods that can potentially deliver better insights, quicker and more cost effectively.

Dean Macko

Dean Macko

Research Vice President at Voxpopme

Bias in Primary Elections and its Applicability in New Product Research
Research Methodologies

Bias in Primary Elections and its Applicability in New Product Research

Could there be situations in which some purposely predisposed informational bias is beneficial?

Westley Ritz

Westley Ritz

Time To Let Researchers Participate In Research
The Respondent Experience

Time To Let Researchers Participate In Research

We will be better researchers if we’re also research participants ourselves. We’ll be more conscious of writing good questions.

Jackie Lorch

Jackie Lorch

Vice President, Global Knowledge Management at Dynata

Does One Size Fit All? – How Important is Recruiting Method to a Qualitative Study?
Research Methodologies

Does One Size Fit All? – How Important is Recruiting Method to a Qualitative Study?

Recruitment methodology should be appropriate for your research method. A ‘one size fits all’ approach doesn’t work.

Jason Horine

Jason Horine

Vice President - Client Solutions at Schlesinger Associates

The 2nd Edition of the GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) Report Is Here
The Respondent Experience

The 2nd Edition of the GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) Report Is Here

The GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) report looks at the who, what, when, where, and why of global consumer participation.

Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook

The GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) Report Is Here!

The GRIT Consumer Participation in Research (CPR) Report Is Here!

The GRIT CPR report is our effort to answer the who, what, when, where, and why of global consumer participation.

Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook

Man vs. MR’s Goldmine, Mobile: The Medium Is The Message

Man vs. MR’s Goldmine, Mobile: The Medium Is The Message

I recently attended the Esomar 3D conference in Amsterdam and, unsurprisingly, much of the content focused on emerging technologies and techniques. I ...

Ben Leet

Ben Leet

General Manager UK at YouGov

Get Into Their Shoes Before Getting Into Their Minds
Insights Industry News

Get Into Their Shoes Before Getting Into Their Minds

Before you put any questionnaire in the field, take the survey yourself as a respondent. You’ll be surprised what you find.

Ron Sellers

Ron Sellers

Garbage In Garbage Out Part Deux (aka Panels Suck)
Research Methodologies

Garbage In Garbage Out Part Deux (aka Panels Suck)

What’s the difference between a $6 respondent and a $25 respondent? Is a $25 respondent better in terms of recruiting practices?

Jason Anderson

Jason Anderson

Owner at Datagame

Fresh Voices: Make Your Participants Better
Insights Industry News

Fresh Voices: Make Your Participants Better

We all know that sense of frustration when people just don’t understand what you want from them.

Riki Neill

Riki Neill

The Avenger’s Guide to Qualitative Respondents
Research Methodologies

The Avenger’s Guide to Qualitative Respondents

Anyone who’s moderated knows that a difficult respondent can bring you down while good respondents can refresh you just as fast.

Brian Madden

Brian Madden

Insights & Strategy Consultant at iModerate

Treating Survey Respondents As Real People
Research Methodologies

Treating Survey Respondents As Real People

Remember that people have a life outside of sitting on their computers / iPads / iPhones and taking online surveys.

Ben Leet

Ben Leet

General Manager UK at YouGov

Biasing Your Research by the Act of Doing Research
Research Methodologies

Biasing Your Research by the Act of Doing Research

One of the fundamental tenets of research is not to affect the research subjects (and results) by the simple act of doing the research.

Ron Sellers

Ron Sellers

Implications of Behavioural Economics for Research
Insights Industry News

Implications of Behavioural Economics for Research

People are often irrational in their decision making. This has major implications for how we conduct and analyze market research.

Neal Cole

Neal Cole

MR Gets Dissed at the 84th Academy Awards!
Insights Industry News

MR Gets Dissed at the 84th Academy Awards!

Instead of looking at consumers as passive respondents, they become participants. And they can certainly be part of the creative process.

Kevin Lonnie

Kevin Lonnie

Founder & CEO at KL Communications Inc

The Global View – Gamification: An Option Or A Requirement?
Research Technology (ResTech)

The Global View – Gamification: An Option Or A Requirement?

Gamification, for good reasons, has become one of the buzzwords not just for Market Research, but for Marketing, Human Resources, and CRM.

Adriana Rocha

Adriana Rocha

Founder & Chief Executive Officer at eCGlobal

Counteracting the Dirty Little Secrets of Online Panels
Insights Industry News

Counteracting the Dirty Little Secrets of Online Panels

How can we as researchers navigate these treacherous waters? In short, what can we do to avoid these bad panels and practices?

Ron Sellers

Ron Sellers

What The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Reveals About The Future Of Market Research

What The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Reveals About The Future Of Market Research

How MR can more seamlessly become a natural part of consumers’ lives—and how we as researchers can truly “be in the moment” with them.

Greg Heist

Greg Heist

Chief Innovation Officer at Gongos

Will Smartphones Save the Survey?
Research Methodologies

Will Smartphones Save the Survey?

While testing the SurveySwipe software on which our study was based, it started me thinking about the whole idea of surveys on smartphones.

Research Access

Research Access

What Do Consumers Think? Don’t Even Bother Asking

What Do Consumers Think? Don’t Even Bother Asking

If we want to truly understand what motivates consumers, then we need to get into their heads and hearts

Leonard Murphy

Leonard Murphy

Chief Advisor for Insights and Development at Greenbook