Blog Posts Tagged Beta Test Recruiting Sources

Paid Research Panels: Why Quick Feedback Isn’t Always Quality Feedback

Quick research panels offer fast feedback, but at what cost? Learn the impact of paid panels with rapid results.

The 4 Types of User Testers You Need (And How to Find Them)

The key to bubbling up the insights you need from user testing is getting the right users to provide the feedback you need for wherever you are in development. But what does the "right tester" actually mean?

Finding Quality Beta Testers: Selecting Qualified Testers

Test Strategy

Using Beta Testing to accurately evaluate customer satisfaction starts with recruiting qualified testers. Throughout this series on Finding Quality Beta Testers, we’ve covered the basics of recruitment: developing a solid recruitment plan, defining the best testers for your project, and writing an effective recruitment message. Now comes the last but essential part – selecting the […]

Finding Quality Beta Testers: Crafting a Compelling Recruitment Message

Test Strategy

Once you have a solid outline for who you want to recruit, you need a recruitment message that can get your potential testers’ attention. The third part of our series on Finding Quality Beta Testers looks at promoting your test opportunity to your target audience, identifying the most promising outreach channels, and creating messaging that […]

Betabound Is Giving a New Face to Targeted Tester Recruitments

Centercode News

Centercode’s community of 200,000+ testers has a new look, and it’s more than just a pretty interface. As part of our ongoing commitment to our customers and testers, we’ve enhanced Betabound with new features that alleviate friction, streamline account creation, and make it easier for our expert test managers to recruit and qualify targeted users […]

Different Ways to Invite People to Your Beta Test

Test Planning

One of the challenges of recruiting beta testers is eliciting interest from potential candidates. One way you can do this is by ensuring you have an attention-grabbing way to invite people to your beta test. Beta testers should represent a good spectrum of your product’s target market. With this in mind, you really need to […]

Recruiting and Selecting B2B Beta Testers

Test Planning

Recruiting the right beta testers is crucial to the success of any beta test, but it can be especially challenging when running tests for B2B (business to business) products. B2B products need customer validation just as much (if not more) as B2C products, but it can be incredibly challenging to get good feedback from people […]

Beta Testing Q&A on the Pragmatic Marketing Live Podcast

Test Management

After our recent webinar on using beta testing to give your product a competitive edge, the Pragmatic Marketing team invited our own Emily Hossellman onto their podcast to answer some follow-up questions.

The Beta Tester Community that Fuels Centercode’s Success

Centercode News

Having the right tools and expertise to run a beta test is only a piece of the puzzle. You also need targeted beta testers to try out your product and provide feedback. At Centercode, we have a growing community of over 100,000 profiled beta testers called Betabound. We use this community to find the perfect […]

Using Social Media for Beta Test Recruitment

Test Launch

Recruiting testers to a beta test is one of the biggest challenges beta managers face. After spending months getting a beta product off the ground, the last thing a beta manager wants to do is spend lots of time recruiting candidates to their test. Luckily, social media is a great tool for quickly recruiting quality […]

Developing a Good Qualification Survey for Your Beta Test

Test Planning

As part of your beta recruitment strategy, you’re going to need to develop a way to qualify your testers. This may sound like a simple task, but the truth is that it can be extremely difficult to round up the right people. Not everyone who displays interest in your test is going to be a […]

Free Kit for Finding and Recruiting Great Beta Testers

Content Release

The success, or failure, of every beta test relies heavily upon its team of beta testers. The right group of testers can provide a fire-hose of quality feedback with minimal time investment. On the other hand, the wrong testers will provide virtually nothing of value — despite endless begging and pleading on your end. Even […]

Announcing Betabound: A New Way to Find Great Beta Testers

Centercode News

Since Centercode’s early days we’ve had a community of amazing beta testers. They’ve helped our Managed Betas Team successfully test hundreds of diverse products for companies of all types. Our community has grown organically through word of mouth to nearly 90,000 beta testers. As we’ve grown, our testers have clamored for more products to test, […]

5 Great Beta Tester Recruiting Sources

Test Launch

Finding the right beta testers isn’t so hard if you know where to look. This post focuses on 5 simple sources that you can use to build a great collection of qualified candidates for your beta test.

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