Background: A college in New York State partnered with Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) to understand and substantiate the need for a proposed Master’s program in a specific Liberal Arts track.  The market research aimed to analyze the occupational forecast to determine if it demonstrated significant need for the Master’s program and if that need for the Read more

A few days ago, the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference was held in Boston. The officially stated goal of this conference is to “provide a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) and students to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry.” Unfortunately, I did not attend the conference, Read more

This blog post discusses predictive analytics and how it relates to market research. Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) is a market research firm in Syracuse, NY.

What is market research? Market research is the process gathering information about a specific consumers/customer group or market. RMS is a market research firm located in Syracuse, NY. Check out our blog for more information about market research.

This most recent blog posts discusses the narrow scope that businesses often set for their competition. In reality, your true competition spreads well-beyond product category.

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Market research projects stand a better chance of success when you get off on the right foot. That’s why the Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) Analytics team and other divisions at RMS make it standard to do some level of project kickoff meeting prior to the market research. This kickoff meeting can be handled over Read more

This blog post was written by our guest blogger Mark Dengler, President and Owner of Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) Inc. – a market research vendor in Syracuse, NY. As a small business owner, you may know you should do market research, you may want to do market research, but you think you can’t afford Read more

Data weighting is a technique that is commonly used in market research. Many people reading this will already know what the concept means. If you’re not one of them, it refers to the practice of adjusting data results to either overcome sampling bias or to give more or less significance to factors based on their estimated Read more

Here in the Bunker, we believe market research is for everybody and can apply to just about every situation. To prove our point, and to continue our annual tradition of celebrating the Fourth of July holiday with a snarky blog post, we have come up with a list of significant figures from American history and Read more