Quirk’s Event 2016 Workshop: Mobile Self-Ethnography

…students will learn about the new area of ethnography which allows people to basically research themselves. With mobile devices, consumers can opt-in to a research experience by taking in-the-moment picture or video content, capturing sound bites or scanning QR codes anytime or anywhere. This might just be the most promising aspect of mobility in market research.

Update Your Data Visualization Skills in a Fun, Fast-Paced Workshop

When researchers fail to use the correct visual display, it often results in a failure to communicate the most important insights. Our Data Visualization workshop will mitigate this risk by providing attendees a broad set of visual displays from which to choose, and guidance on when to use them. We’ll help you move beyond stale and over-used visuals…

Excel Versus SPSS? It’s Closer Than You Think

What if Excel could do 80% of the data analysis tasks that you use SPSS for?

If you haven’t looked at Excel as a survey data analysis tool in a while, look again. Better still, come take our brand new, one-of-a-kind class: Excel for Market Research Data Analysis. This 4-week program starts with pivot tables, covers t-test and chi-square tests, and continues up to and including regression. All in Excel.

Questionnaire Design 201: Online or In-Person

So, are your questionnaire design skills current? Are you over-relying on scales that are known to be subject to acquiescence bias? Or maybe you are just looking to expand the variety of scales you can use for different research topics?

Self-paced vs. Real-time eLearning: an Interview with Kathryn Korostoff

(Interviewer’s note: Kathryn has trained more than 1,000 market researchers, and is the author of How to Hire & Manage Market Research Agencies. She is the lead instructor at Research Rockstar. – Kirk E.)
Kirk: People hear phrases like “instructor led,” “on demand,” “synchronous learning,” and it gets a bit confusing. Can you clarify?
Kathryn: Sure. It’s less complicated than you might think.

The Quirk’s Event, 2016

There are four 4-hour workshops to choose from (topic details below). Each one begins at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m., with a one-and-a-half hour lunch break. Sign up NOW for the Quirk’s Event 2016. To ensure the highest-quality learning experience, class size is limited.

Happy Thanksgiving

As a gesture of thanks for all of the good fortune we have had, we are making a donation to Feed America. “We want to show our gratitude for your business by giving back to the community,” says Kathryn Korostoff, President of Research Rockstar.

Client management: often overlooked, always essential.

What do market researchers absolutely have to know? Plenty of attention is paid to questionnaire design, focus group moderation, data analysis, etc. Unfortunately, one can loose sight of client management.… Continue reading Client management: often overlooked, always essential.

Article Synopsis: “Training Needs in Survey Research Methods: an Overview”

eJournal Survey Practice By Barbara O’Hare, Matt Jans, Stanislav Kolenikov Synopsis by Research Rockstar intern Sarah Sites Surveys create valuable information for decision-making. According to an article in Survey Practice,… Continue reading Article Synopsis: “Training Needs in Survey Research Methods: an Overview”

Love Your Clients? Teach Your Researchers Client Management

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