Category Archives: Online Qualitative


Sharing Quester’s Approach with MBA Candidates at the University of Iowa

Quester was honored to have been invited to present to the Marketing Academy students at the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie School of Management in February. Sharing our methodology with the future leaders in the field is a huge opportunity for Quester, and it’s also a great way to give back, and promote the importance of lifelong learning. Mark A. Winkler, Business Director for the Marketing Academy, MBA, shared the following thoughts on what led him to include Quester in this year’s speaker line-up:

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Sentiment Analysis … So What?

In early January, Next Generation Market Research lead Tom H.C. Anderson shared over 70 predictions for 2012 from clients, Research company CEOs, text analytics providers, and recruiters. I’m always interested in looking for themes, and I’m certainly curious for perspective on where our industry is headed, so I did a little text analysis of my own with the verbatims that Tom posted on his blog.

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The Value of Personality Open Ends

Shakespeare once wrote “What is in a name?” If we had to answer him, we’d tell him “if it’s a brand name, it’s everything.” Remember the Cola Wars and the Pepsi Challenge? Baylor University did and in 2004 they did a more scientific taste test using a machine to monitor brain activity. When respondents didn’t know whether they were drinking Coke or Pepsi, they were equally likely to pick Coke or Pepsi as their favorite. For these respondents, the brand name would have been the only differentiator.

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The First One

Welcome. It’s our first post and we couldn’t be more excited. Our goal with this blog is to help support Quester’s overall goal in the industry: Improve Online Qualitative. We conduct online qualitative and linguistic analysis. We are qualitative experts in the context of doing quantitative research. We’re not a large research house, but we work closely with those companies and our end clients. Read the full post…

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