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How CiCi’s Pizza used mystery shopping to set company-wide standards/evaluation metrics: CiCi’s Pizza commissioned a mystery shopping study to identify ways employees could help guests feel welcome and establish corporate standards by which performance could be measured - including know-your-name service and satisfying special requests.
In Case You Missed It... March 2010: News and notes on marketing research: what Twitter reveals about mood and food; Domino's pizza revamp; Alice.com online storefronts
Qualitatively Speaking: Mining LinkedIn for B2B interview leads: Using the tips detailed here, researchers can harness a few of LinkedIn’s lesser-known capabilities to mine for quality prospects for in-depth B2B interviews.
Trade Talk: New-product survey plumbs consumer mind-sets: A look into the top products of 2009 and what they can tell researchers about upcoming trends.
When using laddering in B2B research, target your probes effectively: Responding to an October Quirk’s article on using laddering in consumer research, the author adds her own insights on how to make laddering work in the B2B setting by adjusting the process to better meet a busy professional’s mind-set.

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Choosing the ideal focus group facility: Multiple factors contribute to a successful focus group. This article discusses facility selection and the many factors to consider when making this important decision.
Forget the sharks - swim with your own fish!: In an increasingly turbulent business environment, corporate ethnographic research may just be the tool today’s companies need to develop the competitive edge necessary for survival. To capitalize on your brand’s inherent power, you must understand your own organization. This article discusses using corporate ethnography to gain insight into a brand and the inherent nature of that brand based upon a greater understanding of the organizational culture itself.
The gold standard?: One technique that seems to have maintained a relatively constant and perhaps growing status over the past 10 to 15 years has been the focus group. This article outlines the key factors that make traditional focus groups the effective tool that it has been for years and why it is a superior methodology to all other qualitative methods for virtually every research need.
Major markets -- major mistakes?: Researchers value markets differently, sometimes because of preconceived notions. This article discusses how preconceived notions about markets can compromise data.
How NOT to recruit for a focus group: reconstruction of an actual interview: This article describes an example of improper focus group recruitment and offers a number of suggestions for avoiding improper recruitment such as careful design of the questionnaire and screening criteria, quality control measures and timing considerations.

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Related Glossary Terms

Moderator: The person hired by the client to lead the focus group or in-depth interview. Also called the focus group moderator, facilitator or qualitative consultant.

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Related Events

RIVA COURSE 201: FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERATING: March 16-18, 2010; RIVA Training Institute will hold a course, themed 'Fundamentals of Moderating,' on March 16-18 in Rockville, Md.
RIVA COURSE 501: FACILITATION - PRACTICAL TOOLS, TIPS AND TECHNIQUES: March 24-26, 2010; RIVA Training Institute will hold a course, themed 'Facilitation - Practical Tools, Tips, and Techniques,' on March 24-26 in Rockville, Md.

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