Trends in Online Market Research for Consumer Insights

January 4, 2021

Aha! Insights Technology Launches QuickSprint^® Studies For Online Market Research

Aha!, a strategic insights technology company, announced the launch of QuickSprint™ Studies — its latest agile market research approach. QuickSprint was developed to give brands and market researchers the ability to get in and out of the market in a more timely and cost-effective manner to foster rapid innovation, concept testing, mini-digital ethnographies to inform brand strategy, or to pulse-check cultural events that shape our rapidly changing world.

January 3, 2021

How to Deploy Successful Agile Market Research Studies Online

There is a lot of talk of agile research these days. While none of this is new, the advancement of mobile and other technology has certainly accelerated the ability of market researchers to get in and out of the market quickly and efficiently versus the time it takes to recruit and conduct multi-day studies.

November 4, 2020

3 Online Concept Testing Methods for Improving Ideas

It is no secret that agile market research methods are driven by the challenge to respond to marketplace opportunities in near real time. This increased sense of urgency has pushed brand managers, insight strategists, R&D teams and market research consultants to develop and deploy initiatives more efficiently and effectively, including concept testing in support of rapid innovation.

September 11, 2020

Online Focus Groups & IDIs: Why All Tools Are Not Created Equal.

It is amazing how quickly things can change, or innovation can be accelerated, when your business model has been so severely disrupted. That’s what has happened to the market research and insights business. Covid-19 has accelerated the use of live webcam and virtual meeting technology to conduct qualitative consumer and B2B research. This is the “new normal.” Most qualitative market research suppliers have jumped on the bandwagon out of sheer necessity. But Aha! Insights Technology is no ‘Johnny come lately’ to the use of live webcam as part of its online qual platform. Fourteen months ago, Aha! became the world’s 1st integrated channel partner with Zoom. Not only the first research company to integrate Zoom but the first COMPANY in the world to build Zoom’s functionality into a proprietary standalone platform outside their own ecosystem. The point is, not all insight platforms using webcams or remote meeting technology are created equal. Here’s why…

July 13, 2020

Using Hybrid Market Research Methods to Supercharge your Consumer Insights

Online qual and F2F research go together like Rock n’ Roll. This presentation demonstrates how a hybrid of the two methodologies can work in a complementary fashion to produce more robust insights than achievable by themselves. Over the past 15 years online qual has gone from a novelty to a bonafide and essential research methodology. Initially online was […]

April 24, 2020

Shifting to Online Qual: The New Paradigm

Jim White, a founding partner of insights and strategy consulting company RealityCheck, and Ray Fischer, CEO of insights technology platform Aha!, discuss several best practices they’ve learned over 15 years of conducting online qualitative research.

March 18, 2020

Face-to-Face vs. Online Online Qual: An Alternative to F2F Market Research

Here is a great article from Jim White of RealityCheck on face-to-face market research vs. online qual.Read on — RayThe use of social media is pervasive. There’s an almost universal penetration of high-speed internet. And almost all consumers have access to some form of digital communication. But in spite of all that, studies still show that only a […]

March 10, 2020

Keep Your Face-to-Face Market Research Projects On Track

Clients, Partners and Friends: As you are well aware, recent events in the international marketplace have made traveling to conduct face-to-face market research more challenging than ever. It has become an even bigger issue with many companies instituting travel bans for their employees. Despite that, your market research does not need to stop. If you are looking […]

January 22, 2020

12 Online Market Research Methods for Consumer Insights

With the advancement of technology, and online market research platforms like Aha!, brands and insight strategists now have more methods and options available to conduct rich and emotive consumer and B2B research studies than they did just a few years ago. And with the right study design, you can now achieve better results. Here are just […]

January 6, 2020

4 Reasons Online Qual Consumer Studies Fail

Let’s admit it… many market researchers are either uncomfortable with online qual or they didn’t get the results they expected and shy away from it. That’s too bad, because the new wave of online qual tools and techniques are producing incredible insights for clients who have discovered the benefits of both technology, and adopting best-practices based on years of learning. […]