Tracking, or not…

Tracking, or not…

Sort of like an Eskimo tracker “Tracking” studies have been a staple of marketing research departments for decades, yet they still mean different things to different researchers and companies. Generally speaking, conventional thinking holds that tracking studies are...
Twists & turns of incidence

Twists & turns of incidence

An old trap From time to time I find myself getting into trouble when designing research and thinking about incidence, sometimes referred to as prevalence, or rate of occurrence. The trouble I find myself in relates to the the net percent of respondents who will,...
Rethinking NPS

Rethinking NPS

We’ve seen this before A recent review of tracking data with one of my e-commerce clients involved a discussion around NPS, or the “Net Promoter Score”, a measure that has been widely adopted in survey and customer satisfaction research. In research...
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