Innovation in MR – Threat Or Opportunity? Annual Tech Report Takes the Industry’S Pulse
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Fighting inertia Are sliders too slick Customer service via in B2B for surveys? social media Innovation in MR – threat or opportunity? Annual tech report takes the industry’s pulse SPECIAL SECTION Top Panel Companies June 2016 www.quirks.com Quirk’s Marketing Research Review CONTENTS June 2016 • Vol. XXX No. 6 DEPARTMENTS page 6 Click With Quirk's 34 10 In Case You Missed It... 14 Survey Monitor page 44 20 Product and Service Update 60 Top Panel Companies page 50 68 Names of Note 70 Research Industry News page 28 74 Calendar of Events 77 Index of Advertisers page 60 78 Before You Go… Quirk's Marketing Research Review 4662 Slater Road | Eagan, MN 55122 651-379-6200 | www.quirks.com Publisher • Steve Quirk Illustration by Jennifer Coppersmith Design by Jennifer Illustration [email protected] | x202 Editor • Joseph Rydholm ON THE COVER [email protected] | x204 Digital Content Editor • Emily Koenig 28 Do we have a problem with [email protected] | x210 innovation? Circulation Manager • Ralene Miller Highlights from the [email protected] | x201 FocusVision 2015 Annual MR Production Manager • James Quirk Technology Report [email protected] | x206 By Sheila Wilson and Tim Macer Directory Sales • Ilana Benusa [email protected] | x213 56 Leverage the irrational TECHNIQUES V.P. Sales • Evan Tweed How B2B marketers can use [email protected] | x205 34 A change for the better cognitive biases to their advantage Sales • Lance Streff Studies chart the evolution of By Adam Jones [email protected] | x211 social media as a customer service channel By Marianne Hynd COLUMNS ••• moving? make sure Quirk’s comes with you! 44 A touchy subject 12 Trade Talk Send change of address information Are sliders too slick for surveys? Gallup article another example of to [email protected] By Trent D. Buskirk qual’s resurgence By Joseph Rydholm Download the Quirk’s iPad, iPhone 50 Changing their beliefs 24 By The Numbers or Android app to view this issue. 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Many shoppers requested a quote without providing choices are correct information or forgot to include changing some important onsumers eat an average of 3.7 information Csandwiches per week, which has to carriers. remained stable over the past few Millennials years. However, consumers are now provided eating a wider variety of sandwiches inaccurate and sourcing them from a greater information variety of locations as they look for by accident new, unique foods, according to the or intention- 2016 Sandwich Consumer Trend Report ally 6 percent from Chicago researcher Technomic. more than While burgers are still consumed most their older, often of all sandwich varieties mea- Baby Boomer sured, other varieties – including deli counterparts. salad, breakfast, flatbread and ethnic Homeowners were sandwiches – are gaining on burgers. more accurate than In other findings, the rise of renters, with renters all-day breakfast is creating new op- being 4 percent more likely portunities for breakfast sandwiches: to omit or provide inaccurate 27 percent of consumers say they are information versus homeowners. buying breakfast sandwiches out- Comparing shoppers self-reported as “currently insured” and “uninsured,” side of typical breakfast hours more currently insured shoppers are 5 percent more likely to omit or provide inaccu- often now than they were a year ago. rate information either intentionally or by accident. CoverHound found only a Consumers increasingly demand mini small difference between lower- and higher-risk shoppers. Compared to lower-risk sandwiches that they can eat as a shoppers, only 2 percent more of the higher-risk shoppers omitted or provided snack (37 percent, up from 31 percent inaccurate information either intentionally or by accident. Men and women were in 2012). And chain restaurants may also the same: Nearly the same percent of male and female shoppers omitted or benefit from differentiating sandwich provided inaccurate information either offerings: 36 percent of consumers intentionally or by accident. overall and 47 percent of Millennials think that chain restaurants all offer very similar sandwiches. quirks.com/articles/2016/20160601.aspx 10 Quirk’s Marketing Research Review // June 2016 www.quirks.com A McMILLION COMPANY The Premier Online Consumer Panel Behind every project is the power of MindField technology and 35 years of market research experience. 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And you could always of one of its clients and found out that high growth, a strong relationship and count on some hackneyed reference to the company was planning to let go of strong product penetration; stagnant Steve Jobs hating focus groups being in- the client vendor. “A customer survey relationships, characterized by low cluded in the blog post or article or op-ed. most likely would have shown that growth, a good relationship and