We’re gearing up for the annual MRA conference being held in Boston this week! Aaron will be presenting a session, In Defense of Marketing: The Peacock’s Plume and Dancing Birds of Paradise Thursday at 11:00AM, and I’ll be working various stations, from hospitality booth to door monitoring some events. In addition, we’re sponsoring a wine […]
I’m slowly recovering from the joint AQR/QRCA Worldwide conference on qualitative research in Prague last week: this year’s theme “Inspiration in Action.” The workshop day – with Wendy Gordon, Jay Zaltzman and Ava Lindbergh gave me enough to contemplate for a month, but the next two days were jam-packed with session after session that made […]
I had the honor of attending a workshop by master moderators sponsored by the Philadelphia / Delaware Valley chapter of the QRCA yesterday. The event’s theme was simple: bring in 3 expert moderators who between them have moderated over 30,000 focus groups in a combined 100+ years of experience, and let professional moderators observe from […]
We’ve just concluded a lengthy ethnography study on foods and snacking. The field team has been de-briefing on our collective experiences across US markets and a story has emerged about a potentially risky ethno location one of our researchers encountered while in LA. While our recruiting partners make every effort to properly screen ethno participants, […]
