This year, they began conducting focus groups.
Bridgewater also began conducting focus groups at Ivy League schools with students bound for Wall Street.
So Playboy spent a year conducting focus groups and other research.
Offshoot groups are conducting focus groups, to help the eventual nominee tailor a message and to start contacting voters.
"Right now we're conducting focus groups in five of the markets that despise us most," a colleague tells him.
In the second phase, I'll do primary research, conducting focus groups, in-depth interviews and a questionnaire survey of holidaymakers.
To that end, the federation is conducting focus groups to determine what people are willing to pay for original online content, most likely in subscription form.
The 12-week curriculum includes learning about the health risks of tobacco and smoking, with units on analyzing commercials, developing surveys and market research and conducting focus groups.
Labor groups are already running polls and conducting focus groups that have, officials said, found great but not insurmountable resistance to tax increases.
What's fascinating about Aptekar's project is that he started by conducting focus group meetings with people from Charlotte to find out what the Queen and her portrait meant to citizens of the US city.
The marketing team at Century spent more than three months conducting focus groups, researching consumer data and combing thesauruses before introducing a collection that became available to consumers earlier this year, under the rather tame rubric "New Traditional".
