20 Most Popular Posts of 2012

While we highlight the most popular posts from a given month in our newsletter, one of my favorite activities is to look back and see what posts were the most popular overall each year. Keeping with tradition, here's a look back across the 20 most popular posts of 2012!   Customer Loyalty Month: 25...read more

A Journey Down Customer Decision Lane

I recently posted a blog about the new social media feature we added to our web survey tool. This week, I came across a great infographic that supports and proves why having social media integration is so essential. These numbers illustrate the value and importance social media integration brings to...read more

Topics of the day

Topics of the day (TOD) are often associated with public opinion polls, but can be useful those of us in consumer and B2B market research. One such topic of current importance is the Fiscal Cliff. There are numerous tax cuts expiring and spending cuts set to go into effect on January 1, 2014 unless...read more

Make Business Dreams Reality & Avoid [Costly] Mistakes

According to a recent survey, asking for input from your target audience can save businesses, particularly start-ups, big bucks. Because new businesses are most susceptible to failure, it is especially important for them to survey customers before making any big business decisions. Some...read more

Revisited: Additional Comments are a Survey MUST

Just like the 2009 Mountain Dew Throwback campaign, I'm bringing back the sentiments from this post: Offering An Additional Comment Section Is An Online Survey Must Have additional comments, concerns, ways for us to improve? Let us know! Seems super simple to add this example survey question to any...read more

Revisited: The 6 Steps of the Market Research Process

A few years ago, I wrote a post titled, Market Research Process: 6 Steps to Project Success. It's one of those posts that is constantly one of the most viewed posts on the blog. Because it's one of the most popular posts of all time, I think it's time to give it a refresh. So for our first Throwback...read more

5 Best Practices for Designing Mobile Surveys

When online surveys came on the scene for the first time in 1999, there was initial hesitation. Was online really going to replace phone and mail surveys? As online has become the norm over the last decade, we've learned there's still a place for multi-mode feedback collection. In fact, with social...read more

Trends Affecting Marketing Research: Are You Feeling like the Roman God of Beginnings & Transitions Yet?

Tis the season for looking back and looking forward, makes you feel a bit like Janus, the Roman deity of beginnings and transitions. Thinking back over the course of the year one phrase seemed to capture lion’s share of the headlines…“Big Data.” All things mobile were in the public eye as well. What...read more

Balancing Data Needs & Survey Length: 4 Strategies for Lowering Survey Abandonment

There is a constant battle between survey authors and respondents, well okay, maybe it’s more of a tug of war. As a survey author myself, I am tempted to add that one final question, but the respondent in me says I don’t really have the time to answer your 30 minute survey. Finding the balance...read more

Net Promoter Score Survey Tip: Don't Ignore the Passives

Like it or not the Net Promoter Score (NPS) is around to stay. Consumer and B2B marketing researchers have argued that single-item measures such as NPS leave much to be desired from a reliability and validity point. On the other hand, executives like it because they can understand it without having...read more
The Rise of the Smart Phone: Are you Leverging Mobile? 10 Tips for Mobile-Friendly Survey Creation