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“Sweet Spot” Pricing Research: Too Much, Reasonable, Bargain and Steal.

Do you need to know the “best” price to charge for a product or service? Here is a practical way to get after this issue without spending a mint.
It is too simplified and misleading to list a series of attributes/pricings and ask for a rating on a scale of 1 to 7 as to [...]

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Brainy Decisions

I just finished a book I highly recommend by Jonah Lehrer on “How We Decide”, something that market researchers, among others, should look into. There is good stuff in there on focus groups, how distressful situations need prefrontal-lobe concentration, how emotions can sometimes interfere and other times aid in making decisions, how complex decisions that [...]

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Americans Are Giving Research Shows

As of January 18, 2010, two-thirds of U.S. adults (64 percent), and an even higher percentage of African-Americans (81 percent), have given or plan to give to relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti, according to a survey conducted by Zogby Interactive, a Utica, N.Y., research company.
Interesting aside: Jonah Lehrer in “How We [...]

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Communicating With Designers

As a former product marketing manager (acquistions editor) in the publishing world, I have worked with many a designer on book jackets, book design and artwork. I have always wondered why it was so difficult to get the designer to see what it was that I wanted in a design. Of course I was usually [...]

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Sample Size Calculator

We have a new sample size calculator up on the site. It is an excel spreadsheet that you can download and use as you wish. You can find it at http://www.wilsonresearch.com/main/market_research_company_articles.php

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New Article

I got my latest article published on EzineArticles.  Here it is if you are interested.  Here is the orig link: http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2552698
Top 10 mistakes in conducting online market research
1. Not knowing what you don’t know
Its easy to do online surveys these days. Too easy. It may be so cheap and easy that you [...]

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Open for busines

Hello everyone, we finally got our blog up and running.  Now to get some posts up!

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