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- Dubrovnik, Croatia
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- Under 49
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- $40/hr
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- $1,000 - $10,000
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- 6 Projects Listed

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- Chicago, Illinois
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- Under 49
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- $150/hr
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 25 Projects Listed
Since 2013 - We're a digital marketing agency GROWTH agency focused on marketing results - but only the ones that matter...
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- Jdeideh, Lebanon
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- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $149/hr
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- $1,000 - $10,000
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- 17 Projects Listed
Really Dope Digital is a full service digital agency. We connect a decade of expertise in design and development with brands and content creators to create elevated experiences on the web. From concept through production, RDD has the answers and skills to build strong brand and technical visions into reality...
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- West Hollywood, California
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- Under 49
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- $120/hr
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- 3 Projects Listed
We are a marketing consultancy with expertise in delighting your clients and expanding your results...
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- Curitiba, Brazil
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $90/hr
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- $1,000 - $10,000
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- 3 Projects Listed
At Jacob Tyler, we deliver creative experiences and marketing strategies that amplify your brands reach, breed customer loyalty and boost your bottom line. Founded in 2000 in San Diego, California, Jacob Tyler is a branding agency and digital marketing agency that helps clients with all of their creative and...
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- Del Mar, California
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- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $175/hr
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 4 Projects Listed
We help senior leaders hit their ecommerce goals...
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- Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
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- Under 49
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- 11 Projects Listed
At Nomadigo, we offer commercial video production and events services across diverse sectors with 300+ projects. We offer flexible pricing, making us startup-friendly. Our full-service approach covers everything from concept to post-production...
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- Herzliya, Israel
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 30 Projects Listed
Recom is a strategic growth agency headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Florida, and operating globally with 201500 employees. Since 2013, it has supported premium consumer brands in accelerating sales and profitability on Amazon, Walmart, and other marketplaces. Their services include catalog management...
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- Deerfield Beach, Florida
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- Under 49
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- $1,000 - $10,000
DesignStein Studios is an Orange County, California based industrial design and product development firm. Founded in 2013 by Jesse Clemmer, the studio supports inventors, startups, and Fortune 500 companies by transforming concepts into manufacturing ready products through research-led, user centered design...
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- Under 49
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- 9 Projects Listed
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- Kansas City, Missouri
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- Under 49
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- 13 Projects Listed
Realise works with business leaders and entrepreneurial change-makers bring new products to launch, no matter where in the product development cycle, adding value with a genuine drive towards sustainable innovation within Design...
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- Bristol, United Kingdom
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $175/hr
- Minimal Budget
- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 7 Projects Listed
Proportion is an award-winning, multidisciplinary creative studio dedicated to developing branded spaces worth sharing. Specializing in creating cohesive brands that carry from naming and identity through visual communication and interior design, Proportion transforms brands beyond the expected...
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- Malden, Massachusetts
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $150/hr
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 3 Projects Listed
Branding agency and strategic design consultancy founded in Madrid in 2006. Brand strategy, identity, packaging, retail spaces and digital for brands like Tío Pepe, Osborne, Clarel and Sanitas...
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- Madrid, Spain
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 5 Projects Listed
We are a team of young creatives that are focused on causing disruption in the marketing world by telling brand stories the way the consumer sees it. Our job is to understand your unique brand image and create content that portrays that image for your consumers throughout social media...
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- Clifton, New Jersey
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $75/hr
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- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 1 Project Listed
The Sound is a global consumer exploration, brand strategy and product innovation agency, applying leading-edge market research techniques, technologies and marketing models to solve client brand, marketing, communications and product innovation challenges...
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- New York City, New York
- Number of Employees
- 50 - 99
- Minimal Budget
- $1,000 - $10,000
24 East Media is a cutting-edge marketing agency dedicated to empowering brands and entrepreneurs worldwide to thrive in the digital realm through the strategic cultivation of credibility and influence. With a mission to help clients soar to new heights, the agency employs a comprehensive approach t...
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- Jersey City, New Jersey
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- Under 49
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- $150/hr
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AEX is an independent consulting firm specialized in intelligence, problem-solving, data analysis, sales team structuring, and business generation for medium and large companies in Brazil, the USA, the EU, Argentina, and Uruguay...
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- Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $150/hr
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- $1,000 - $10,000
Contact Center Source has been the most preferred partner of customer service, technical support, Back Office, and global services with 12+ languages capability for companies across North America, Australia, and EMEA region...
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- Cairo, Egypt
- Number of Employees
- 250 - 499
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- $1,000 - $10,000
Craft Innovations is a global research & UX design firm. We help financial institutions & fintech startups innovate faster, grow in valuation and profitability by converting user insights into exceptional customer experiences...
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- Toronto, Canada
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $50/hr
- Minimal Budget
- $10,000 - $25,000
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- 4 Projects Listed
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- Calp, Spain
- Number of Employees
- Under 49
- Average Hourly Rate
- $60/hr
- Minimal Budget
- Under $1,000
With Secret Shopper, you may find a wide range of market research services delivered with the utmost integrity. We will work with your business to maintain and enhance its customer service through personalized mystery shopping reports, internal social media and website optimization teams, coaching, and...
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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We are the agency that partners with ambitious brands to turn marketing into momentum. From bold startups to scaling giants, we help businesses get seen, remembered, and paid...
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- London, United Kingdom
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- Under 49
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- $60/hr
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- 4 Projects Listed
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- London, United Kingdom
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- $70/hr
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- $1,000 - $10,000
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- 1 Project Listed
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- Shanghai, China
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- 7 Projects Listed
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6 FAQs About Market Research Companies
What are the red flags when evaluating market research companies?
The most disqualifying red flag is a market research firm that proposes a methodology before diagnosing your problem. This is a common indication that the firm is reverse-engineering your question to fit their existing fieldwork infrastructure, rather than designing a study to answer what you actually need to know.
You should also consider the panel opacity; namely, any market research company that can't specify whether they're using a river sample, a proprietary panel, or a blended approach, and what their median panel tenure and re-contact intervals look like, might be concealing a data quality problem.
Other red flags to watch out for are:
- Case studies with no stated confidence intervals or margin of error.
- A research director who goes silent after kickoff and hands you to a junior analyst.
- Proposals that treat sample size as a fixed number rather than a function of your required subgroup precision.
- If the agency doesn't ask how granular your cross-tabulations need to be before they quote an n-size.
How much does it cost to hire a market research company?
A custom market research project from a professional firm can cost from $25,000 to $65,000, with specialist market research commanding the higher end of that range.
In terms of variables, there are five factors that affect final pricing:
- Methodology: Qualitative research (focus groups, in-depth interviews) costs more than quantitative (surveys) because it involves harder-to-reach participants and higher incentives per respondent.
- Sample size: More respondents means higher fieldwork and incentive costs, wherein the minimum viable sample varies significantly by methodology.
- Incidence rate: This is the percentage of the general population who qualify for your study. Low incidence multiplies sample costs because the firm has to screen far more people to fill each completed interview slot.
- Survey length: More questions mean longer field periods, more respondent drop-off, and more data to clean, code, and tabulate.
- Quality and credibility of analysis: Basic cross-tabulation is fairly cheap, whereas advanced analytics entail higher fees.
What do market research agencies charge that most clients don't expect?
The costs most clients don't see coming are fieldwork overruns, unbundled data processing fees, and multi-market add-ons. Here are a few more details about each cost:
- Fieldwork overruns: When your target audience is harder to find than the agency assumed, you pay more per respondent to hit your sample size. For example, a study targeting general consumers might screen 1 in 3 people. A study targeting, say, finance decision-makers at mid-market companies who've evaluated a new vendor recently might screen 1 in 12 people; that gap multiplies your fieldwork cost fast.
- Data processing fees: Cleaning and organizing your data after fieldwork closes isn't included by default, and each step gets billed separately. The service entails making the sample representative of your target population, categorizing written responses by hand, and merging qualitative and quantitative findings into one coherent output.
- Multi-market add-ons: If your study runs across multiple countries, everything it takes to make the research work locally (translating the survey, verifying the translation is culturally accurate, and confirming findings hold up in each market) is almost never included in the base quote.
The safest way to obtain an accurate proposal is to ask the agency for a full cost-at-risk breakdown, i.e., a list of every line item that could increase based on fieldwork conditions or scope changes.
How do I know if I'm hiring the right market research firm for my budget?
The right market research agency is the one that's honest about what your budget can and can't buy.
The real risk is underspending just enough to get a study that looks credible but can't answer your actual question:
- Pricing research with a sample too small to break down results by customer segment
- Segmentation work that identifies clusters in the data, but can't tell you how to reach or sell to any of them
- Concept testing run on a general audience that doesn't resemble your actual buyer
A credible market research company will tell you upfront if your budget constrains the methodology.
What does a bad engagement with a market research agency look like, and how do I avoid it?
Bad engagements follow the same pattern almost every time: a vague brief, a proposal that doesn't challenge it, and a final deliverable that presents data without telling you what to do with it. Underdelivered outcome looks different depending on what you hired them for:
- Segmentation studies. The research identifies customer groups statistically, but those groups don't map to any audience you can actually reach or any go-to-market move you can actually make.
- Concept testing. The study tells you which concept scored highest, but doesn't inform why the others scored lower, or what's driving the preference, rendering you unable to improve anything or make a confident call.
- Pricing research. The agency asks respondents directly what they'd pay. Respondents don't answer that question honestly. The result looks like data but reflects no real purchase behavior.
In practice, these aren't unusual outcomes. More so, they tend to happen when a market research company takes a brief at face value instead of pressure-testing whether the methodology actually answers the main question.
Before you proceed with collaboration, ask the agency three things:
- What decision will this study enable?
- What would a surprising finding look like?
- What would it mean for us if we got that result?
- Do you use AI tools for discovery?
When does it make sense NOT to hire a market research company?
Hiring a market research firm only makes sense when you have a genuine information gap: a decision that's significant, hard to reverse, and cannot be answered with data you already have. Outside of that, you're paying for research you don't need.
Skip the service if your timeline is too short. A properly designed study with a screener, fieldwork, data cleaning, and analysis takes weeks. Rushing that process cuts quality controls, and data with hidden flaws will ultimately give you false confidence. That's worse than no data at all. If you need an answer within two weeks, you're better off with:
- 8-12 in-depth interviews with target customers
- Your own CRM or behavioral analytics
- Existing syndicated reports from sources like Forrester, IDC, or Euromonitor
Skip the service if the answer already exists. If your transaction data already shows how different customer segments respond to price changes, commissioning a new pricing study is a redundant spend.

































