Monthly Archives: June 2011

Made your fall MR conference plans yet?

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go… With apologies to Peter, Paul & Mary… The Fall MR Conference season will be here before you know it. And it looks like another good one. Have you made your plans yet? 20|20 will be exhibiting at several this Fall… and attending even more. The folks [...]

Multi-tasking public creates qualitative research dilemmas

The reality of the American consumer using a tablet, cellphone or laptop while watching TV is habitual behavior that seems to be reinforced by study after study. Yesterday’s release of a Harris Interactive/Adweek poll shows that fully one-third of Americans are surfing the Internet, reading a book or newspaper, engaged in social media, or texting [...]

20|20 Launches QualBoard™ Plus

20|20 Technology, a division of 20|20 Research, Inc., today announced the launch of QualBoard™ Plus, a bundled set of tools, services and dedicated project support that relieves researchers of the myriad details necessary to complete a bulletin board focus group project. According to Isaac Rogers, Director of Innovation for 20|20, “Every bulletin board focus group [...]

Positioning for the qualitative research industry of the future

Every conference, many blog posts and most conversations in the qualitative research industry center around the big question: what’s happening next? Rapidly changing consumer behavior, technology advances and a horizon that is unclear to most marketers creates fear and opportunity. But the leaders in the qualitative research industry, and the future leaders of whatever this [...]

MRA Conference Quotes: Bill Neal and Marshall Toplansky face off

The MRA Conference started Tuesday with a bang!  Industry veterans, icons really, Bill Neal and Marshall Toplansky, faced off on a debate about the future of the industry, specifically social media.  The debate was fun, opinionated and wide-ranging.  Some great quotes emerged.  Here are some of them that may make you stop and ponder. “The [...]

Qualitative Research Needed to Understand Social Buying

Several interesting articles recently have focused on social media effects on purchasing. It’s an ongoing discussion among marketers, and qualitative research is a critical part of the discussion. A recent post by Tony Zambito at his blog, Buyer Persona Insights, The Research Methods of Social Buyerology notes that understanding buyers who use social media requires [...]

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