Qualitative and Quantitative
Research Training CD-Roms


You will learn observing skills, listening skills, debriefing skills, and how to optimize what you have seen and heard after the session:
  • How to distinguish between jumping to conclusions vs. leaps into insight. (How to recognize the 'Aha!')
  • How to pay attention to what's happening in the Front and Backroom at the same time
  • How to take notes (and when NOT to!)
  • How to debrief at the end of the sessions to get the most out of the experience and take advantage of everyone's thoughts and feelings about the information
  • Avoiding the 7 Deadly Backroom Temptations!
  • Understanding the psychological experience of the background - ferreting out the emotions you are feeling from actual marketing information
  • How to supervise the moderator
  • What to communicate to peers during the groups, on breaks, and after the event
  • Making the most of the report
  • How to avoid 'groupthink' or premature consensus
  • How to physically position the team for the most effective back room communications
  • How to use between group breaks to improve focus-group productivity
  • How to encourage an iterative learning process (one where each group builds on the previous one)
  • Differences between brainstorming and focus group observation.  How to blend the two. When NOT to!
  • Moderating the Backroom - when and how to assign a facilitator for backroom processes
  • How to handle difficult Backroom team members of lower, equal and higher rank
  • Maximizing the utility of Back to Front room communications

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CD-ROM

 

In this interactive multimedia adventure, Drs. Sharon and Glenn Livingston will personally discuss and demonstrate:

  • The history and development of projective techniques
  • The theory behind the application of projectives to qualitative research
  • Several LIVE demonstration examples of projective techniques
  • How to interpret projective techniques (using LIVE examples)
  • How to choose the appropriate projective for a given marketing problem
  • How to prepare in advance. The mindset of the moderator
  • Managing the mindset of the respondents during projectives
  • How to create and implement your own unique projective techniques.

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CD-ROM

 

Designed BY Research Professionals FOR Research Professionals. Expert moderators and psychologists share their observations and findings from both client and supply side experience. Informative lectures by leaders in the field (including Dr. Sharon Livingston, President of The Name Works™).  Over 90 minutes of informative video content.

You will learn:

  • The 9 characteristics every good name MUST possess
  • How to elicit imagery associated with a name
  • How to create buy-in for names after research determines they are good candidates
  • How to marry names to company umbrellas, and when NOT to
  • How to determine whether a name appropriately fits with a product or service concept
  • How to DEVELOP names in a focus group environment
  • How to DEVELOP names in internal ideation sessions
  • How to TEST names in a focus group environment
  • How to TEST names in an internal evaluation session
  • How to TEST names quantitatively
  • Creating names likely to clear legal trademark woes

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Video

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Marketing Research Project Manual Audio Book on CD
1998 ISBN: 0538891483

This audio book on 4 CDs provides a step-by-step presentation for doing marketing research with an emphasis on survey research and data analysis using statistical packages such as STATISTICA, SPSS, or Excel

 

PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES TELESEMINAR
TAPES AND E-BOOK

(INCLUDES PHYSICAL PACKAGE OF AUDIO-CASSETTES)

Sharon Livingston, Ph.D., President, Executive Solutions Inc.

Listen To 87 Minute Projective Techniques Seminar On Your Computer When It Is Convenient For You. We'll Ship You The Audio Tapes And E-mail You The Word for Word Transcripts & PowerPoint Slides While You Download A Copy Of The Audio So You Can Begin Immediately.

 

EMOTIONAL SPACE(TM) QUALITATIVE BOARD GAME

Powerful new projective board game for qualitative researchers. Learn respondents' innermost thoughts and feelings about the products and services you are testing ... while protecting their self esteem and making the interview truly fun with this intriguing new board game!

FOCUS GROUP TRAINING PACKAGE
(Three vital training disks at a discounted price)