We here in the research bunker discuss a fair amount of football in our downtime and during our lunch breaks.  So, with the NFL Playoffs just around the corner, we figured we would use today to take an interest of ours and craft a blog post out of it – by relating it to market Read more

As a marketing research and marketing consultant in Syracuse, NY – Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) speaks with a lot of clients about their needs.  Sometimes clients come to us knowing they need to do some type of marketing research, but don’t know where to start.  Other times clients come to us having already started Read more

Market Research can be quite a valuable tool for a business.  It helps a business make decisions based on actuality rather than hunches.  When going through the process of conducting research, it is important to get the most value out of it as possible.  We came up with a few tips (resolutions!) to help you get Read more

From our guest blogger Kim Cuccaro, former Business Development Specialist at RMS. Everyone is familiar with the Nike® slogan “Just Do It”.  A lot can also be said for making a decision and going through with it.  Oftentimes businesses fail to find common ground between slapdash decision-making and a lengthier drawn out decision-making process. I commonly see Read more

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This post was written by our Guest Blogger Mark Dengler who is President here at Research & Marketing Strategies, Inc. (RMS). When doing market research, businesses often wonder whether they should conduct qualitative or quantitative research. Qualitative research is used to explore and understand people’s beliefs, experiences, attitudes, behavior and interactions. It generates non-numerical data – Read more

George from the RMS Research Bunker summarizes mystery shopping/secret shopping services, if your business can use it, and what you can learn from it.

Our guest blogger Brian discusses Senior Living Market Assessments and the Role in Consumer-Driven Research.

The RMS Bunker Blog takes a closer look at qualitative research and often requested quotas in recruiting. In the end, qualitative research is a way to explore topics, not something that should be scientifically broken down into sub-segments.

This post was written by our Guest Blogger Megan O’Donnell who is our Healthcare Division Manager here at RMS. Customer satisfaction has been a key measure for companies in every industry for decades.  Only in the past several years has the need to consider, much less measure, customer satisfaction become important in the world of healthcare. It had Read more