Portfolio managers, venture capitalists, angel investors, and hedge fund managers are just a few of the roles associated with full-time investment management. Their primary goal? Achieving consistent and sustainable returns on investments over an extended period of time. While it may not be immediately obvious, these professionals can significantly enhance their day-to-day work by leveraging expert network services. Today, we’ll explore the various ways that they can benefit.

At Zintro, we work with clients who are conducting research across a wide range of industries for a variety of business objectives, and consulting firms are no exception. Why might a consulting firm want to work with an expert network? There’s no shortage of reasons, and today, we’ll be diving into all of them.

In this blog, we’re taking a deep dive into asynchronous qualitative market research. When done well and aligned with your research objectives and audience, the flexibility of this approach can deliver rich insights in a way that’s easy to manage for both researchers and respondents alike.

If you’ve read our most recent blog, you may be under the impression that we’ve covered everything there is to know about focus groups, but that’s not the case. While we’ve talked about their importance and their benefits in the world of market research, we haven’t explored best practices for when you conduct one. Read on to  learn how to lead one like a pro and design a discussion guide that maximizes the insights you obtain.

When it comes to conducting market research, knowing when to use different qualitative and quantitative data collection methods is vitally important because it can mean the difference between mediocre insights and great insights. Today, we’re turning our attention to focus groups. Read on to learn the basics of this approach as well as some key benefits focus groups bring to the research process.

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When it comes to market research, researchers and respondents are aligned in that both groups have expectations for how the process will unfold. The issue? Their expectations are vastly different.

Finding the perfect participants for your research project is of the utmost importance. Today, we’ll talk through our top five tips for finding your ideal candidates.

Moderating qualitative research projects and moderating them well are two very different things. At its core, moderating is the act of overseeing a conversation, posing questions, and reporting back to an end client.

Part of what makes human subject research ‘good’ is the participants themselves, because their characteristics directly affect their ability to provide quality insights.

If you’ve spent any time in the market research industry, you’ve almost certainly encountered fraudulent respondents before. For research respondent providers, working to find fraudulent respondents is like a game of cat and mouse; methods are in place to help prohibit it, but fraud is notoriously difficult to catch.