{"id":48029,"date":"2017-09-26T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/?p=48029\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T03:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:14:39","slug":"focus-qualitative-tools-available-questionpro-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/focus-qualitative-tools-available-questionpro-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Focus on Qualitative Tools Available on QuestionPro Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"720\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">When in-person focus groups aren\u2019t cost effective enough to include in a market research strategy, more research managers are looking online to gather similar quality of feedback at fractions of the cost and time required. QuestionPro Communities is more than just a panel management solution. It offers many qualitative tools and built-in incentive programs that make it easy for research managers to effectively engage with and gather quick responses for key business objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\">QuestionPro Communities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/online-qualitative-research-tools\/\">Qualitative Research Software<\/a> and Tools Includes:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"c4\">Discussions<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">The online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/focus-group-software\/\">focus group software<\/a> and tool, Discussions, allows research managers to invite respondents to a session and moderate online focus groups. This can be done \u201clive\u201d at a specific time or offer users the flexibility to post responses when they login to the community. Invitations are sent out specifically to target members the research manager would like to gather feedback from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\">Idea Board<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"850\" height=\"738\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">If you are looking to encourage respondents to share ideas and allow others to offer feedback and vote up\/down on existing idea submissions, then this is a great tool to help you manage and present results to key stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\">Topics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image3-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">In this community, you can submit topics, vote on existing posts, or add comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">To submit a post, please click the New Topic button. You will then be asked to add a title and a description for the new topic. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c3\">To vote on a topic, simply click the thumbs up \/ down icons below the topic title\/description. And to add a comment, you can click on the comments link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\">Need to Go Mobile?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"c3\">QuestionPro Communities is the only panel management and discussion platform that offers a seamless mobile communities experience. When it comes to engagement, how you reach respondents matter! Go mobile and take Discussions, Topics, and Idea Board anywhere your respondents go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\">What to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/qualitative-research-methods\/\">qualitative research<\/a> best practices on QuestionPro?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><strong><span class=\"c4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-48708 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/image2-450x203.jpg\" alt=\"advanced survey training\" width=\"450\" height=\"203\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c4\">Join us for a live demonstration of our Communities platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c4\">Wednesday, September 27th, at 11:00 AM PST.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c2\"><span class=\"c0\"><a class=\"c6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/info.questionpro.com\/advanced-survey-training-series&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1506393109093000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHycB2T7-NXMWXJIWMlnKZ3_K5d1g\">Sign up here today.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in-person focus groups aren\u2019t cost effective enough to include in a market research strategy, more research managers are looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":48039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207,250,263,409],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Online Qualitative Research Software-QuestionPro Communities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the increasing competition in the business world, the extensive need for business research has also increased. 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