MRFGR recruits participants for studies that need a specific or difficult-to-reach audience. This can include people with particular professional roles, experiences, behaviours or personal circumstances. We check feasibility, plan how to reach them and screen against your criteria before confirming the recruitment approach.
Finding the right respondents for market research is crucial, especially when they are hard to find. Our Specialist - Hard to Find - Respondent Recruitment service is designed to tackle this challenge head-on. We excel in locating and engaging those elusive individuals who are pivotal to your research. Whether they are high-net-worth individuals, members of exclusive clubs, or professionals with specific job titles, we know how to reach them effectively.
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Our expertise lies in our ability to recruit participants that are traditionally difficult to reach. Unlike standard respondent recruitment, our specialist approach ensures we find the right people who can provide valuable insights. With years of experience, our team has developed unique strategies to locate and engage these hard-to-find respondents, ensuring your research benefits from high-quality data.
We understand that recruiting niche respondents often requires more than just standard incentives. Our tailored approach includes offering larger incentives or unique experiences, such as VIP events, to attract high-net-worth individuals and other hard-to-reach groups. This personalised strategy not only motivates respondents to participate but also ensures their commitment and engagement throughout the research process.
Our recruitment process involves comprehensive outreach through various channels. We utilise specialist websites, forums, social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and X, and even cold calling to find the perfect respondents. This multi-faceted approach ensures that we leave no stone unturned in our quest to recruit the most suitable participants for your study.
The success of any market research project hinges on recruiting the right respondents. Our Specialist - Hard to Find - Respondent Recruitment service ensures that you have participants who are not only relevant but also engaged and willing to contribute meaningful insights. This focus on quality recruitment guarantees that your research delivers actionable results.
Let us handle the complexity of finding these elusive respondents, so you can focus on what matters most – gaining valuable insights and making informed decisions. Choose our Specialist - Hard to Find - Respondent Recruitment service and experience the difference expert recruitment can make.
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Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of working with MRFGR on multiple projects, and we cannot recommend them highly enough.
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Their communication throughout our engagements has been excellent, always prompt and clear, which has greatly facilitated our processes.
The team at MRFGR, although small, is exceptionally knowledgeable and dedicated. Their expertise is evident in their ability to obtain high sample sizes and deliver well-published results. What sets them apart is how easily their findings are translated into actionable insights, ensuring that we can swiftly and effectively utilise the data.
Their speed of delivery is truly impressive. We consistently receive results in good time, which is crucial for our fast-paced operations. MRFGR has proven to be an invaluable partner, and their service has consistently exceeded our expectations.
For anyone in need of reliable, efficient, and insightful research services, MRFGR comes highly recommended.
MRFGR have been absolutely brilliant! The videos we have received from their respondents have been perfect - they clearly brief their people really well and you can tell from the content we receive. They give clear communication & are on hand to help at all times. We give them some crazy tight timelines and they turn things around for us so quickly and without stress - even when the respondents are coming from multiple countries.
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I highly recommend Matthew & Paul - they're fab!
When I phoned Matthew at MRFGR I was in a bit of a pickle. I needed to recruit 25 consultant paediatricians for telephone interviews (with minimal incentive) across 8 countries, two of which were non-English speaking. Oh, and I needed to have recruited and completed the interviews in 12 working days. Surprisingly, Matthew wasn't taken aback by this and set about the task with enthusiasm. Even against these challenging timescales, Matthew was able to deliver all 25 consultants - a phenomenal effort.
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I was extremely happy. And, more importantly, so was my client.
MRFGR were not the cheapest firm who pitched for our work, but I am happy that I decided to go with them. I feel that their database is extensive and this combined with their excellent client service means that they offer a higher degree of reassurance and peace of mind than other recruitment agencies we have worked with in the past. When we had a problem to resolve at short notice they did this very quickly. I would happily work with them again.
Hi Stephen Both groups went very well - a key client attended the first and was very pleased. Very articulate groups, really impressed especially considering it was such a difficult recruit (recruiting Somalis). The hotel was great too, incidentally, a nice place to do groups. Many thanks for your hard work on this - hope you feel it was worthwhile!
MRFGR recruited four focus groups for our research across a variety of settings, including socio- economically deprived urban communities and very small rural communities. Despite the significant challenges these settings posed MRFGR ensured that all our focus groups were fully attended, and with a minimum of fuss. I would have no hesitation in recommending them for recruitment work.
It's always a pleasure to work with MRFGR. They are a great partner who consistently recruit high calibre respondents to take part in our research projects and workshops. Always professional and very reliable.
Our organisation, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, has used MRFGR to support our recruitment requirements for focus groups and public events and we have always found their service and achievements to be excellent. They have demonstrated a commitment to meet last-minute requirements in a calm and professional manner and we would not hesitate to recommend them.
I would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the work that you recently carried out for us. Stephen Essex and MRFGR were recommended to me by a colleague. It was important for us to find a company who could understand and deliver our brief on a very tight schedule. Stephen demonstrated a level of knowledge and professionalism that gave us the assurance that this would be achieved.
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The result was a report that clearly met the objectives of our brief, was presented in a professional manner, which then enabled us to present the findings to our customer with confidence. We would not hesitate to recommend or use Stephen again.
The groups in Chipping Norton went really well thank you. We had a full turn out to both of them. I would just like to say that we have been very impressed with the number of participants you have managed to recruit to these groups, your regular updates on the recruitment progress, and your follow up contact. We have also had very positive feedback from the participants about their contact with you. We will definitely consider MRFGR in future when wishing to recruit participants to similar groups.
We have used MRFGR to recruit participants for multiple research projects with varied samples sizes and sometimes challenging recruitment criteria. They have a calm and professional manner, providing us with regular updates in the lead up to and on the day of research projects. Multiple touch points with participants approaching the study date ensures drop-out rates are extremely low with replacements usually being found very quickly if necessary. I look forward to working with MRFGR in the future.
MRFGR is the first external company we have used for sourcing focus group attendees. Although we have organised many groups previously I would definitely use MRFGR again. The costs were reasonable and the attendees we have received have been exactly the right target groups. The level of communication has been satisfactory too with regular updates leading up to each focus group. Matthew has managed all of the groups we have requested and there has been no issues. I would recommend trying MRFGR.
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Yes. It is often used for industries such as IT, healthcare, and financial services where expertise is required.
Open FAQIt involves sourcing participants who are difficult to reach due to niche expertise, rare demographics, or sensitive topics.
Open FAQYes. We recruit rare profiles across multiple countries, adapting to cultural and regulatory requirements.
Open FAQTimelines vary by profile, but we provide realistic schedules during project planning.
Open FAQYou will gain access to authentic insights from participants who are otherwise very difficult to reach.
Open FAQWe use targeted outreach, professional networks, partnerships, and specialised databases.
Open FAQIt ensures research projects capture insights from precisely the right audience, improving accuracy and relevance.
Open FAQIt can be more resource-intensive, but it delivers unique insights unavailable from general panels.
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