We are happy to announce the public beta release of our mobile app, Revelation Mobile. Our breakthrough technology captures and records consumer behavior in real time and allows researchers to tailor mobile studies as extensions of their Revelation projects. Its seamless integration with other reporting and analytics tools eases the transition to this unchartered medium. This limited public beta release will lay the groundwork for mobile research design and management.

“We are tremendously excited by the ability of app-based mobile research to capture ‘in the moment’ customer experiences, but there is still much to understand in terms of both technology and best practices,” says Steve August, CEO and Founder of Revelation Inc. “With this beta iPhone app release, Revelation has a platform that will help researchers discover and develop cutting edge mobile research methods.”

Features of the Revelation Mobile beta version include:           

• Diary-style activities to track consumer purchases, behavior, and consumption
• Photo uploads that enable participants to capture their environment
• Open- and closed-ended prompts for quick barometers and deep probes

Our limited public release scheduled until June 30, 2010. There will be an incubation period before we launch our official release.

Additional resources: Download the official press release below.  If you are interested in viewing screenshots and video of Revelation Mobile, please visit http://www.revelationglobal.com/mobile. 

On April 13, Andrew Vincent will come in for the second installation of our Great Research Thinking webinar series in 2010. His talk “From Insights to Action: Maximizing the Impact of Research” will start at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM PT. Registration can be found here.

As much as we value excellent research, it simply is not enough. Insight must be actionable. Key take-away points include:

• Developing practical strategies to ensure, monitor, and measure insight adoption
• Understanding how your end-users make decisions
• Framing and positioning your insights for the greatest impact

Stumbled across this the other day. I wanted to share a nugget of good news for young professionals in the research industry.

QRCA is extending a scholarship to a young professional to waive the costs for registration and travel to its annual conference, which kicks off in Philadelphia on October 13 and lasts until October 15. The application deadline is June 4.

For more information about QRCA’s application and the criteria for eligibility, please follow this link.

Revelation believes in continuing education. Revelation believes the research industry’s ever-growing cache of tools, methodologies, and applications raise serious questions and the cost of growth should be prohibitive to no one. Revelation encourages all young professionals to apply.

Please pass this information along to young, promising professionals who might have interest in attending QRCA’s annual conference for free.

Next generation qualitative tools provider Revelation has reported a 240% growth in sales in calendar year 2009 versus the previous year. The company says the increase was driven by surging demand for both its cutting edge online qual research platform and high-touch online field support services.

"We are extremely pleased with our results," says Revelation CEO Steve August. "In the face of a very difficult environment for the market research industry and the overall economy, Revelation is seeing robust growth."

During 2009, Revelation continued to expand platform capabilities, expanding languages supported to include traditional and simplified Chinese, Thai, Bahasa Melayu, EU and Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, French, and German. The company also released upgrades to the research platform's video capabilities and added enhanced group discussion features.

Additionally, the company expanded its service offerings to include Helping Hands Project Setup and Participant Management, Helping Minds Guide Development, and People Provider best of breed participant recruiting service.

The Revelation team has expanded its language capabilities to include traditional and simplified Chinese, Thai and Bahasa Melayu. These additions bring Revelation to a total of ten supported languages, including EU Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French, German, and English.

We love your feedback! 

Over the course of the past two years we've had phone calls, email exchanges and in-person discussions with many of you about what you want out of online immersive research software.  Your input was the driving force behind our relaunched Revelation V2 in October, 2008.  And since that release, we haven't stopped enhancing our product.  Because you asked, we've added group discussion activities, enhanced our video experience and incorporated seven languages - to name a few of our latest features.

We want to continually expand the conversation and keep listening.  That's why we're happy to announce that Revelation has integrated UserVoice into Studyspace.net.  UserVoice is a tool that enables researchers to post their suggestions for new features in Studyspace, vote on ideas and keep track of the features our development team is working on for future releases. 

UserVoice is easy to use - simply log in to Studyspace.net and go the the "suggestions" area on the dashboard page and get started.

We look forward to your continued feedback and suggestions.  Thank you - you make us better!

Revelation is hiring a part-time marketing associate.  The ideal candidate is a highly organized self-starter with a strong sense of accountability. We have a great opportunity for a motivated individual looking to expand their skills. Starting out part-time, this position will be organizing and growing our sales and marketing database, working directly with management to execute marketing plans and sales strategy. The marketing associate will play an integral part in executing marketing campaigns and creating materials as well as work with sales to create proposals and internal sales reports.

Hours: 15-20 hours a week

Educational/Certification Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a related field

Qualifications:
1-2+ years of marketing experience required
Knowledge of Salesforce.com required
Strong organizational skills required
Knowledge of market research industry a plus

Computer Experience/Special Skills:
Solid MS Office and Salesforce.com skills required

Salary: Salary depends on experience.

Email your resume and cover letter to jobs@revelationglobal.com for immediate consideration. No phone calls, please.

Since Revelation has grown so much over the past year, it has become harder and harder for me to find the time to be able to explore ways to use the online medium for qualitative research and then share what I've learned through writing, speaking, blogging, etc.  This is such a key part of what drives Revelation - being as driven about methodology as we are about technology -  that we have created a position that focuses on these activities. We call the position Methdology Evangelist. Here's what a Methodolgy Evangelist does and needs to bring to the table:

Methodology Evangelist              

Passionate, entrepreneurial-minded researcher sought for a unique position. Revelation, a Portland, OR creator of online qualitative tools (www.revelationglobal.com), is seeking a dynamic Methodology Evangelist to help market and advance our company’s product and methodology offerings.  At Revelation, the Methodology Evangelist will:

Engage and Inspire

Evangelist will constructively engage with and contribute to the research, design, marketing, and advertising communities.  Publish papers, speak at conferences, blog, tweet and otherwise participate in conversations on forums, groups, lists and other social media.

Market, Sell

Evangelist will  be a key cog in Revelation’s sales and marketing efforts by demo-ing products and solutions, working with sales and marketing to create proposals and participating in paratrooper marketing trips.

Consult

Assist customers with developing engaging and insightful activities and work with the customer experience team to ensure the success of customer projects.

Explore, Create

Push the boundaries of online qualitative methodology. Areas of interest: developing activity models that make the most of the online medium, in-context research, accelerating qual analysis, projective techniques, concept and ad testing, applying game theory. Conduct research projects to test methods and ideas. Conduct research to further product development and participate in designing product and service offerings.

Share, Teach

Build on Revelation’s current educational offerings. Give or host webinars on the latest research thinking and practice, lead classes, create educational events.

Requirements

1. Must be fluent, passionate and non-dogmatic regarding qualitative research methods
2. Must have experience conducting asynchronous online qualitative research via blogs, bulletin boards, Revelation or other online tools
3. Must be irrepressibly excited about online as a medium for qualitative research
4. Must be able to credibly engage and excite a wide diversity of researchers and research tool buyers, including: research directors, design researchers, qualitative research consultants, product manager, marketing managers, ad researchers and account planners,
5. Have excellent presentation and people skills
6. Able to roll with a start up environment
7. Advanced degrees helpful, but online qual experience and communication ability is more important

Salary depends on experience. Benefits include health insurance and participation in stock option plan. Ideally person would be located in Portland, OR but will consider candidates based in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London.

Candidates should forward a cover letter and resume to jobs@revelationglobal.com

Elizabeth MacLaughlin has joined us as Associate Customer Experience Manager.  She will be focusing on our Helping Hands project management services. Elizabeth comes to us with a full service market research background.  She most recently worked at Market Strategies International here in Portland. We are happy to have Elizabeth join our team.  Her customer service skills are already winning rave reviews from our clients.  And we know her extensive market research knowledge will be a great addition to our team. 

Welcome, Elizabeth!