Participant Recruitment
13 articles
Find, screen, and schedule the right people for your research — including incentive strategies and consent best practices.
How to Build a Research Participant Panel: The Complete Guide
A step-by-step guide to building, managing, and activating your own research participant panel. Learn how to source participants, maintain panel health, and use AI interviews to run studies in 48 hours instead of weeks.
Research Participant Incentives: How Much to Pay and What to Offer
Everything you need to know about research participant incentives: standard amounts by participant type, which incentive types work best, how to avoid biasing your results, and how AI-moderated research is changing the cost-per-insight equation.
Purposive Sampling: The Complete Guide to Strategic Participant Selection
A complete guide to purposive (purposeful) sampling in qualitative research — covering all major types, when to use each, how to determine sample size, and how AI tools enable purposive sampling at scale.
Research Consent Form Templates: GDPR-Compliant Forms for Every Study
Ready-to-use consent form templates for user research, UX studies, and AI interviews. Covers GDPR compliance, informed consent best practices, and how to collect consent automatically with Koji.
Research Screener Questions: How to Write Questions That Find the Right Participants
Learn how to write effective screener questions that filter the right participants for your user research studies. Includes 10 proven templates, best practices, and common mistakes to avoid.
How to Research Hard-to-Reach Audiences: Executives, B2B Buyers, and Niche Segments
The people hardest to recruit for research are often the ones whose insights matter most. Learn how async AI interviews unlock executives, B2B buyers, and niche specialists who will never take a 60-minute call.
In-Product Research Recruiting: Recruit Customer Interview Participants From Inside Your App
Stop paying recruiting panels for participants you already have. Learn how to recruit research participants directly from your product using embedded prompts, in-app banners, email triggers, and personalized AI interview links. Faster, cheaper, and more representative than external panels — with zero scheduling friction.
Screening Research Participants Effectively
Learn how to write screening criteria, design qualifying and disqualifying questions, and build screeners that recruit the right people for your qualitative research.
Research Incentive Strategies: What to Pay and How
A practical guide to incentivizing research participants — when to offer compensation, how much to pay, and choosing between cash, gift cards, and product access.
Screener Questions for User Research: A Complete Guide
Learn how to write effective screener questions that find the right research participants — and how Koji's intake forms and AI interviews make screening faster and more natural.
User Research Recruitment Emails: Templates and Scripts That Get Responses
Ready-to-use email templates for recruiting user research participants, with proven subject lines, body copy, and follow-up sequences that achieve 7–15% response rates.
How to Recruit B2B Participants for User Research
B2B participant recruiting is harder than consumer research — but more valuable. Learn the strategies, channels, and tactics that actually work.
How to Reduce Research Interview No-Shows: Proven Strategies That Work
Learn the confirmation sequences, scheduling tactics, and incentive structures that reduce research participant no-shows from 30% to under 10%.