Monthly Archives: July 2010

QualLink Helps Client Integrate Quantitative Survey and Online Focus Group

Longtime 20|20 client Pat Snyder of What They Think Research was in a bind when she contacted us about a month ago. Faced with a client’s tight deadline and tiny budget, Pat needed to do a quantitative survey and an in-depth bulletin board focus group ASAP. We introduced her to QualLink, our patent-pending technology that seamlessly [...]

Market Research Industry Shown Growing Again

People have been telling us that business is pretty good everywhere. At 20/20 Research, we concur. We have seen increases across the board and a virtual explosion in our online qualitative research software business. Today, I read “confirmation’ of all the anecdotal evidence. Research Business Report quotes RONIN President and CEO Harry Bunn that there [...]

Optimal Days of the Week for Successful Bulletin Board Focus Group

The QRCA Forum had an interesting thread about optimal days of the week for holding a bulletin board focus group. Apparently, a researcher was having difficulty conducting the online qualitative research on Friday. The consensus opinion was that optimal days were generally mid-week, Tuesday – Thursday.  Other days can be productive but often require even [...]

3 Benefits of a Bulletin Board Focus Group

Moving focus groups online is a lot like taking other disciplines to the Internet–it’s often faster, cheaper and easier. But there’s more to using a bulletin board focus group than just those basic benefits. The technology has added new capabilities that were previously too difficult to execute–or just flat out not available. In addition to [...]

Online Quantitative and Online Qualitative Research, aka “Hybrid”

There’s been a lot of buzz recently as researchers begin to understand more ways to create “hybrid” research with new methods that combine online quantitative and online qualitative research.  iModerate recently conducted research among “hybrid practitioners” .  Some of the key findings were: “Hybrid” definition is muddled.  In this survey of self-described “hybrid users” about [...]

Clear Objectives Key to Online Qualitative Research Success

It may seem like Market Research 101 all over again, but Bonnie Eisenfeld makes some great points in the current issue of Quirk’s about the importance of clear objectives when conducting online qualitative research (free registration required). Online research software can help speed up the process, but that doesn’t mean you should rush through it–due [...]

Online Qualitative Research Enhances Quantitative Reporting

Wouldn’t it be cool to present quantitative graphs and tables followed by a video of survey respondents actually talking about that those numbers mean?  The new QualLink add-in from 20/20 Research allows just that.  QualLink provides for in-depth probing and questioning of online quantitative respondents using QualBoard, a bulletin board focus group platform.  The discussion [...]

Online Qualitative Research…Fast

20/20 Research recently announced a new tool called QualLink (patent pending) that is a major advancement toward seamless integration for quantitative and online qualitative research.  QualLink acts as a data conduit to transfer a respondent’s survey responses directly to their QualBoard profile.  When the survey respondent opts in to the bulletin board focus group, their [...]

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