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Want to know more about Behavioural Economics?

This week, NewMR broadcast four webinars on Behavioural Economics (BE) – as part of our Research Innovation event. If you want to expand your knowledge of the theory and application of BE then you might find these presentations useful. Stephen […]

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Why Are Communities Taking Over The Insights World?

OK, let’s start with a clarification, when I say taking over the world, I mean they seem to be everywhere (like Starbucks or Uber) not that they have become masters of the world (as in War of the Worlds or […]

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Having a look at 1Q.com – a mobile-based survey service

Last week I had was invited to have a play with the 1Q.com system, an innovative and new alternative for market researchers and marketers. 1Q.com is a panel, currently with a North American focus, that operates via consumer’s phones. Like […]

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3 Key Problems that Hold Innovative MR Companies Back

There are three key challenges for any company trying to operate at the cutting edge of market research and insights: Money – until the revenues come in there are bills to pay, and without some money coming in it is […]

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What is Conjoint Analysis?

Conjoint Analysis is used when a brand wants to know how important different elements of a decision are. We know from neuroscience that people (people like you and me) cannot put numeric values to how important is, say, flying direct […]

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Stepping Outside our Comfort Zone – re:publica, Berlin, 2016

Guest Post by Daniel Fazekas from Bakamo.Social Around this time last year Ray Poynter invited researchers to a “collaborative review of social media research”. The idea was to showcase social media research to the MRX community.. The findings across all […]

The Paradox of Automation and Increased Employment

In Western society, fears and concerns about automation creating job losses and social disruption date back, at least, to the early 19th Century and the Industrial Revolution. In 1811 the UK saw the rise of the Luddites, protestors who were smashing […]