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Click Here to Access the Live Session Effective market researchers blend market research excellence with client management expertise. After all, disappoint a client one too many times and they’re a former client. Striking this balance can be a challenge. Researchers are often put in the difficult position of juggling client expectations while maintaining budgets, schedules,… Continue reading Client Management Skills for Market Researchers: Live Event 2
Click Here to Access the Live Event Open-ended questions are a great tool for researchers. And while the unstructured data they yield have great benefits, there are also some big challenges. To get the most out of OE questions, the professional researcher must carefully construct questions, code (analyze) and report the data. In this course,… Continue reading Open-ended Questions: Construction, Analysis & Reporting: Live Event 2
Click Here to Access the Live Session Are you planning your organization’s first customer satisfaction research? After this instructor-led class, taught by Instructor Kathryn Korostoff, you will be prepared to start planning your project, either in-house or through an agency. Topics include goal options, monitoring strategies, and common challenges.
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Click Here to Access the Live Session Do you want to broaden the number of online qualitative research methods at your disposal? Taught by Instructor Kathryn Korostoff, topics in this 4-part program include social media research, online focus groups, crowdsourcing (idea management and prediction market platforms), webcam research, online projective methods, and more. Includes examples,… Continue reading Mobile & Online Qualitative Research Methods: Live Event 2
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Click Here to Access the Live Session Instructor Kathryn Korostoff will teach students the basics of how social media can be used as a market research resource. Included in this instructor-led class is an introduction to social media monitoring, social sample sources & more. Get a practical perspective on how you can use social media… Continue reading Social Media Research & Sentiment Analysis: Live Event 2
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Click Here to Access the Live Session If you have completed our Analyzing Survey Data Using SPSS: 101 course (or equivalent), here’s your next step for advancing your SPSS skills! Our Analyzing Survey Data Using SPSS: 201 course covers multi-level crosstabs, weighting, factor analysis, and regression. Get hands-on in our virtual classroom as the instructor… Continue reading Analyzing Survey Data Using SPSS: 201
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Click Here to Access the Live Event Learn how to write a great quantitative market research report, even if you are new to report writing. What makes for a great quantitative research report? It needs to synthesize and present survey research findings in a way that your audience will find useful and memorable. You want… Continue reading Writing Quantitative Research Reports: Live Event 4
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Click Here to Access the Live Event Learn how to manage a focus group project, even if you have never done so before. In this 4-part class, Instructor Kathryn Korostoff guides students through the process of planning and managing a focus group project step-by-step. This class only covers reporting options briefly. For a more in-depth… Continue reading Focus Groups: Project Design & Management: Live Event 3
