In their continuing coverage of the ASGCA/SLRG Market TrendWatch, the Fall 2018 issue of In Design features a look at our recent research revealing the types of projects that golf course architects have been most involved with, of late, as well as their key revenue drivers.
Read More »Monthly Archives: September 2018
Growth Strategy For Sports: Broaden The Experience While Maintaining The Core
In September, 2018’s Marketing: Sports, SLRG’s Jon Last speaks to the benefits and caveats of sports properties creating line extensions to reach a broader audience. Next week, I have the privilege of participating as moderator and keynote speaker to open the Golf, Inc. Conference in Carlsbad, California. My initial remarks will draw from extensive fan […]
Read More »September 2018
Recent Research of Interest: Role Playing Allows Research Team to Examine the Sentiment of Language
We often use projective exercises in qualitative research to get a respondent to think ‘outside of themselves.’ For example SLRG moderators might ask respondents to put themselves in someone else’s shoes to describe photos of others and determine what they might feel or do, and why. In other circumstances the respondent can be asked to associate brands […]
Read More »Recent Research of Interest: Emotional Coding Enables Qualitative to Quantitative Story Telling
In recent years, some researchers have turned to the use of “wordless” or thought bubbles to illustrate the most frequently utilized phrases from open ended responses in quantitative research. Often utilizing semantics scrapers and other technology to create a hierarchy of these answers, the results are a simple means to cut through extensive respondent comments. Unfortunately, such […]
Read More »