Associations

1. American Marketing Association
www.marketingpower.com

The American Marketing Association is a professional association for individuals and organizations involved in the practice, teaching and study of marketing worldwide.
It is one of the largest professional associations for marketers, has 38,000 members worldwide in every area of marketing.

2. ESOMAR
www.esomar.org

ESOMAR is the world organization for enabling better research into markets, consumers and societies. Today, more than 4000 ESOMAR members worldwide are committed to the highest professional and ethical standards embodied in the ICC/ESOMAR Code of Marketing and Social Research Practice. The Code gives ESOMAR members added credibility and prestige in today’s competitive global marketplace.

3. The Research Alliance
www.research-alliance.com  

The Research Alliance is a close network of medium-sized full service research companies. Committed to the highest quality standards and offering many standard products worldwide, Alliance provides a complete range of services for continuous and ad hoc studies, for quantitative and for qualitative research. Alliance combines international experience and local expertise to provide highly actionable findings. 

4. Russian Guild of Experts in marketing
www.marketologi.ru

"The Guild of Experts in marketing" associate on the terms on personal membership such people as: heads of companies holding on the marketological sight on the problems of the firm; employees and heads of departments of marketing in producing servicing or selling companies key researchers; independent marketing consultants; top managers of enterprises and organizations; journalists or authors writing about marketing; organizers of marketing education.

5. Association for Qualitative Research (AQR)
www.aqr.org.uk/

Founded in the early 1980s, the Association for Qualitative Research is a non-profit organisation.  AQR supports such developments as the MRS Qualitative Research Guidelines and the MRS Code of Conduct, which were published after much public consultation in 1998.  The AQR is managed by an elected committee. All AQR members are entitled to vote in the elections which take place in June of each year. Committee members normally serve for a three year term. Committee meetings are held monthly, usually in Central London.

6. Quirk's Marketing Research Review
www.quirks.com/

QUIRKS : Online companion to Quirks Marketing Research Review with over 1000 market research case history and technique articles. Was started in 1986. The first issue contained 36 pages and six articles. Now, over 250 issues later, Quirk's has provided thousands of case histories, discussion of technique articles and data use columns. The average issue contains over 100 pages and is printed in full color on glossy paper.