Advisory communities are rapidly replacing pure research panels, as they include the ability to interpret customer interactions and self-led discussions, in addition to their response to your direct questions. An advisory community is the perfect platform for fused research: bringing observational, quantitative and qualitative capabilities together in a cost-effective format. It’s the best way to get accurate insights quickly in order to grow and protect market share.
Panel communities help organizations gain insights that drive customer loyalty, product innovation and marketing reach.
You can ask direct questions – through formal surveys or on-the-fly – before, during and after critical transactions. In a community, you can also observe and log activity within the community, as well as any linked off-site or off-line behavior.
Communities are more open to interaction, experimentation and online ethnography. On a macro level, this can impact pre-release product development; on a micro level, this can be direct 1:1 or 1:few communications – particularly valuable when targeting hard-to-reach samples, and for getting deeper qualitative insights.