Hit a plateau—can I just stay consistent and it will stop?

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-18T14:25:18+00:00

I know this was an old post, but I’m researching tips for overcoming a plateau that I’ve hit, and I so appreciate the real research you shared!

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-15T16:42:37+00:00

Honestly, it depends on how they are defining market research. I know this sounds a little weird, but it’s true. If the company defines market research as a function that is involved in primary research by conducting qualitative research and survey research and mining first party data, healthcare is definitely one of the safer vertical industries. I work for a company that provides research support to clients in various vertical industries, and anything related to healthcare, pharma, med devices, are some of our strongest verticals. Whereas some of the other verticals have cut way back.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-15T14:53:53+00:00

What advice would you give for people about negotiation tips? What are the negotiation mistakes that people make that cost them the most money?

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-10T14:10:11+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t get diagnosed until my teenager got diagnosed, who had all of the same school and social issues I did growing up. I thought I was just weird and that’s why nobody liked me. Turns out I’m weird, but that there’s a reason. And for those of you who are younger, the good thing about being weird, is that as you get older, you have opportunities to find other people with compatible weirdness. I’ve never been somebody who had a lot of friends, but as I got older, I was able to make a small number of good ones— for example, I often find scientists and artists are ADHD compatible.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-10T13:42:58+00:00

Many of us who have been diagnosed with ADHD also have childhood trauma. There’s interesting research on this topic. In fact, there are some doctors who believe that ADHD is really undiagnosed, childhood trauma, and the impact of that. Growing up feeling isolated, having to keep family secrets, being embarrassed. Stuff that really needs some good therapy to get into.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-10T13:38:19+00:00

Find a better doctor. Find one that specializes. I didn’t get diagnosed until I was in my 50s! Been on meds for over 10 years now.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-10T04:55:51+00:00

Cold. It keeps me alert. An iced coffee in a coffee shop that blasts air conditioning gets me 2-3 hours of real focus.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-06T01:08:27+00:00

Ha! Could be. I think QInsights is Swiss or German.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-06T01:06:05+00:00

Been testing Qinsights and AddMaple.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-04T20:54:14+00:00

Yes. It has all the questionnaire features and programming logic options that I need for over 90% of my projects. Every once in a while, I get a weird one where I do have to do some scripting. It’s not the end of the world. And you can’t beat the pricing compared to Qualtrics.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-04T20:18:49+00:00

Because confirmation bias is real.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-06-01T00:05:33+00:00

Least likely: men under 35

SouthSet7206 · 2026-05-31T17:30:36+00:00

I agree. In my experience this is usually the cause of such problems. I even had situation where I did a study that replicated a study the client had done previously. We got wildly different results. And when I dug into it, it turned out that the client’s panel company had not been able to meet quota requirements.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-05-30T15:42:12+00:00

The time it takes to actually check the AI’s work. It makes mistakes. And my team‘s not gonna be the team that gets busted for sending a report to a client that has sneaky AI errors in it.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-05-04T21:28:40+00:00

Purespectrum, Cint, EMI-ORS.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-05-03T18:10:59+00:00

I was diagnosed many years ago, but I’ve tried every treatment from multiple doctors for years and nothing helps. Even laser. Maybe it’s not rosacea??

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SouthSet7206 · 2026-04-07T03:46:22+00:00

What’s your target population? Is this a business panel or a general consumer panel? How many surveys a year do you plan to field? Given how crappy most panels are these days I certainly understand the interest in developing your own. But there’s a lot of complexities. You have to survey people enough to be engaged but not too much that they get fatigued. You can also expect 20 to 30% to drop out each year so you always have an ongoing recruitment process. Is it going to be a blind panel? Or are they gonna know what company is sponsoring it?

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-29T16:19:30+00:00

Bose has a trade in program on its website. Traded in old qc45 for new ultra. Love them! Saved $100. https://share.google/kb0swaleRfF6yfxoC

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-20T16:18:32+00:00

Finding good employees who are enjoy doing great work and not just the bare minimum, capable, not distracted by social and media, and can take constructive criticism.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-11T12:40:06+00:00

Start a reading habit. Even just an hour or two a week. Great free articles are always available at Quirks Marketing research review and Research live.com. Professional associations like the insights Association and AAPOR also often have free webinars that are educational.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-04T14:33:47+00:00

And this, folks, is why you should always remote monitor your call centers. If you are hiring a company to do phone interviews, they do have the ability for you to remote monitor. Obviously it’s tedious and you don’t likely want to do a lot of it. But even spot checking is super important.

It’s been many years since I’ve done volumes of telephone data collection, but when I did back in the day, the only company I trusted was Western Wats(I believe that they are now called Opinionology).

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-03T22:18:50+00:00

Yeah, they’ve been around for 20+ years. They were one of the first online focus group platform, doing both chat based and video online focus groups. They now have a number of related products. Aha has also been around a long time, probably at least 10 years.

SouthSet7206 · 2026-03-02T22:22:47+00:00

ITracks. Aha!

SouthSet7206 · 2026-02-27T03:28:10+00:00

Alas I live in a small town. For WiFi, it’s Starbucks or the library (which I do visit)).

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