Experts in Recruitment Virtual and Physical
We recruit respondents for all types of qualitative marketing research. Our strength is nationwide bulletin boards, TDIs, product tests, online focus groups, ethnographies, and all types of projects where a nationwide reach is critical to the right demographic balance for your research. We are also here for your in-person focus groups at any location and support a focus group facility with extra recruitment resources.
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Best In Class
Transcripts
Whether your project is right for Human or AI transcription, our best in class project management team will make sure that your project is perfect and stress free. From our easy upload platform, to being able to watch the progress of your project online, to your perfect transcript, our team is poised perfectly to ensure your success. We are fast, accurate and encompass decades of experiences.
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Engaged Project
Management
Focus Forward supports global field teams and researchers with nationwide US qualitative recruitment to virtual places and in person spaces, best in class transcripts and speech to text solutions, rapid incentive processing, proprietary online panel, survey programming and open end coding. Our experienced team is here to support growth and keep researchers focused on moving forward to insights.
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Online Qualitative Recruiting
Perfecting online focus groups and bulletin boards for over a decade, we are the experts in this methodology. Crossing all possible demographic and geographic boundaries, Focus Forward’s recruitment for online focus groups or bulletin boards may be exactly what is required to take your research to the next level.
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In-Person and Telephone Recruiting
Phone Interviews and In-Person Focus Groups are the leading solutions to gain insights to meet your research objectives. Our time-tested recruitment for traditional focus groups and telephone interviews has spanned over a decade encompassing consumer, B2B, and medical projects. Starting with the proposal, our team is all in, offering a consultative approach to the recruitment of your project.
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Transcription and Translation
Our transcription services are accurate and cost-effective with a fast turn-around for your industry. We utilize human transcriptionists to ensure that your project is accurate and secure. At Focus Forward, we also utilize the best professional translators and linguists from around the world, with over 100 supported languages. Our team has decades of translation experience combined with industry-specific expertise, including marketing, media, technology, business, medical, and legal.
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Incentive Processing
We recognize that incentives play an important role in research. Compensating for time and opinions ensures thoughtful insights and is helpful to communicate the time value of the research participant. At Focus Forward, we are always happy to take care of the incentive fulfillment piece for you.
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Quantitative to Qualitative
Online Panel
Consumers and business professionals join our panel, FFFocusGroup, to be part of research and to engage in a real connection with the researcher. Along with individual online surveys, our panel is ideal for projects, whether the time commitment is days or months, or where a multi-phase project is critical to the research objectives.
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Open End Coding
Focus Forward’s coding service is your premier source for open-ended coding. Our experienced U.S.-based coding team provides quick responses and project turnaround. Our coders have years of experience with consumer, business, technology, and medical coding, providing insightful and detail-oriented coding you can only get from manual verbatim coding.
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Product Tests and IHUTS
Our team is experienced in all types of ethnographic studies: in-home, in-office, shopping trips, or any type of unique location for the right immersion. We understand that a successful study starts with respondents who are enthusiastic and able to contribute thoughtful insights to your project. Recruitment of the main respondent, as well as colleagues and friends, is often critical to the project. Focus Forward ensures all respondents are thoroughly screened and quotas are managed to guarantee the maximum possible value to your research.
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Online Qualitative Platforms
Our team has used just about every platform out there and can help you decide which one is perfect for your project. Depending on your research goals, format, and budget, we can help fit your project into the right online tool so your client has the right tool to connect with respondents for your marketing research. From low cost online meeting solutions to robust marketing research specialized group and research board tools, our team can connect your team directly with a knowledgeable representative from the platform or possibly set up the groups for you, depending on your choice. With our respondent recruitment, we offer walk on service, so we are here for the respondent questions and tech checks. Let our experienced team help you make your online qualitative marketing research as easy as possible for your team.
Mock Jury Recruitment
Focus Forward’s mock jury recruitment services are unparalleled. Before we even begin to recruit your jury, we conduct our pre-research preparation process, which includes screening potential jurors on a variety of demographic and psychological factors. Our recruiting process is designed to deliver the best possible jury, meeting your exact specifications.
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Pre-Recruitment
Through Survey Software
Partnering with Decipher, a world-class survey creation tool, our team pre-screens all respondents online. Our phone room takes over calling only people who meet the demographics. This allows us to use phone time with the respondent to probe, explore articulation, and assess for fit with this project and our client. If a disposition is needed, we have it in short order from our pre-screener, so all responses can be reviewed and the path forward swiftly created.
Transcripts for
Technology Platforms
Enhanced interactive transcripts and time stamping perfectly link your video with the text in real time. Our platform on yours, create video linked text. In our enhanced interactive, enjoy free video clips, video montage services, and jump right from a keyword to research and watch it again.
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Testimonials
What clients say about us
The project team was very professional and responsive. Whenever I had questions or concerns, there was usually a quick and helpful response. Overall, I was very happy with the recruitment process. It went smoothly and we met our targets for the project.
I want to personally thank Samantha Clark for the guidance and help during the proposal stage and Janis Fallows for stellar work during project execution. It was a real pleasure working with Focus Forward and I look forward to working with them again in the future.
I am so impressed with Focus Forward. They have been finishing our massive logs in record time, and keeping us updated on everything. Really happy with them!
I enjoy working with Focus Forward, they are so responsive and a genuine pleasure to work with. I receive top notch service every time.
Respondent engagement is paramount to data quality and Focus Forward’s proprietary recruitment methods ensure our clients receive the highest quality survey responses every time.
I’ve been working with FF for a few years now and I’ve been happy with every aspect of their work. They focus on my needs and do everything possible to get the job done quickly and accurately.
Not only are the people at Focus Forward a pleasure to deal with, they are complete professionals who deliver what they promise, when they promise it. My clients have been delighted with the transcription service which is uniform and expertly formatted. Uploading audio has never been easier and their technical support staff cheerfully walked me through it the first time.
Overall, we are very pleased with the quality of service provided by Focus Forward. Their recruiting is great, and we are very pleased with the quality of the respondents. The project management staff is very friendly, and communications are timely.
We have used Focus Forward for many of our studies. They have helped us get quality respondents from all over the US. They are a strong partner that we can consistently rely on for our recruiting needs. We look forward to a long partnership.
I’ve partnered with Focus Forward on more projects than I can count. Whether it’s a simple consumer project, specialized medical research or those hard to get C-levels, Jean and her team consistently and seamlessly deliver, with a great show rate of quality respondents.