Want to Achieve Optimal Panel Health for Your Research? Here’s How:

  • October 27, 2023

  • Jennifer Smith Tapp

Regardless of the market, it’s data that rules the day. Market research has become an indispensable tool for B2C and B2B companies seeking to understand consumer behavior, make informed decisions, and stay ahead of the competition. To achieve these goals, maintaining optimal panel health is essential. 

The Importance of Panel Health

Panel health refers to the quality and engagement of your research panel members. Healthy panels provide more accurate and reliable data, ensuring your research insights are accurate. Poor panel health can lead to skewed results, negatively impacting decision-making. 

How Do You Achieve Optimal Panel Health? 

  • Profile Screening: Start by ensuring your panel members are an accurate representation of your target audience. Profile screening helps eliminate individuals who don’t fit the criteria, ensuring the quality of responses. 
  • Quality Control: Continuously monitor and assess the quality of responses. Implement mechanisms to identify and exclude poor-quality data. 
  • Privacy and Security: Uphold the highest standards of data security and privacy. This builds trust among your panel members and ensures data integrity. 

The Power of Custom Online Panels

While many B2C and B2B businesses use pre-existing research panels, the most effective way to ensure optimal panel health is by creating custom online panels that are tailored to your specific needs, such as the panels created and managed by Eyes4Research. Here’s why: 

  • Targeted Audience: With a custom panel, you have complete control over who joins. This enables you to engage with individuals who more closely resemble your target audience, resulting in more accurate data. 
  • Engagement: Custom panels are more likely to stay engaged because they are interested in your products, services, or industry. This engagement leads to higher-quality responses. 
  • Flexibility: Custom panels offer flexibility in research design. You can run surveys and studies when and how it suits your organization, gaining more timely insights. 
  • Data Ownership: When you have your custom panel, you own the data, providing a competitive edge in a data-driven business landscape. 
  • Cost-Efficiency: In the long run, custom panels can be more cost-effective as you maintain a pool of engaged respondents, reducing the need to continually acquire new panel members. 

Achieving optimal panel health is crucial for the success of your market research efforts. Custom online panels empower B2C or B2B businesses with control, precision, and engagement, setting the stage for more accurate and insightful data collection. At Eyes4Research, we create and manage custom online panels that help our clients collect the accurate, high-quality data they need to make informed decisions from the beginning. 

Read more about market research on the Eyes4Research blog. Eyes4Research also has everything B2C companies need to collect high-quality insights from consumers. Our panels are comprised of B2B, B2C, and specialty audiences ready to participate in your next research project. Learn more about our specialty panels here.




About the author:

An industry leader and influencer – Rudly Raphael specializes in all aspects of research logistical design involving quantitative methodology, implementing internal system infrastructure to streamline business processes, channelling communication and developing innovative research solutions to ensure Eyes4Research remains a competitive force in the marketplace. An entrepreneur, inventor (patent holder), blogger and writer – his articles have been published in various magazines such as Medium, Ebony Magazine, Business2Community, and also cited in various journals and academic publications.