Dial testing makes another showing on the campaign trail. If you’ve been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you may not know that last night’s debate was one for the record books. As has been tradition for years, CNN used dial testing during last night’s debate. They […]
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RSS feed for this sectionBack-To-School Messaging: How Parents Feel About Conditions For Returning to School
Back-To-School Messaging is a Mixed Bag for These Parents As part of the ongoing “Back-to-Normal Barometer” tracking study, we crafted and dial tested back-to-school messaging to gauge how parents would react. We tested the video below featuring someone playing the role of a school superintendent communicating a message about students […]
7 Examples of Reasons To Believe (RTB)
When creating reasons to believe, the rule of QUALITY over quantity prevails. And you gotta test them! One (or 2) Reasons to believe (RTBs) that are highly believable are a lot more compelling than several that are loosely related. When in doubt, test them to make sure they’re compelling […]
A SECURE CONFERENCING PLATFORM FOR MARKET RESEARCH
Dialsmith is a Member of ZoomGov for Secure Online Research This high-security platform for web conferencing is used by fewer than 1% of all accounts. ZoomGov was designed to serve sensitive areas of the US Government. We use this same technology for all our online qual research: online focus […]
Is ZOOM Secure for Market Research and Online Focus Groups?
Online focus groups and dial groups are our new normal. And we get this question a lot. If you are like the other 99% of companies, you are using the commercial version of Zoom. The short answer for you is “Yes, Zoom is secure for market research.” (At Dialsmith, we […]
Online Dial Testing for Online Qual Research: Video
(This presentation courtesy of the #NewMR webinar series on the Future of Data Collection) Make the pivot: Virtual dial testing when in-person research methods are not an option Dialsmith SVP Eric Alzuhn explains how online dial testing is being used to capture second-by-second feedback on all form of recorded media: […]
Dialsmith Discoveries | HOTTEST or NOT-est Summer Movie Trailers
Welcome to the next installment of our Dialsmith Discoveries series—where we put our own Dialsmith research tech to the test to tackle a timely but usually not-so-serious question that has befuddled humanity for decades, or maybe years, or perhaps hours. In our previous segments, we’ve sliced up America’s Favorite Thanksgiving Pie , […]
Ethics is Good Business
(Originally posted on the Engagious Blog.) Good Ethics is Good Business: Jonathan Haidt at BSPA Every year behavioral psychology’s best and brightest (and those who aspire to be) gather at the Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) conference to drop knowledge, meet people, and learn new things. This year’s […]
Texas Governor Debate & Focus Groups – #TXGovDebate
The political season of 2018 is in full swing and tensions were running high at the Texas Gubernatorial Debate this evening. For tonight’s face-off, Nexstar was capturing real-time feedback with our Perception Analyzer dials in the hands of a focus group. Respondents supplied moment-to-moment feedback on the debate performances. One […]