Survey Data in a New York Minute: When to use Online Polls vs Surveys

The concept of a New York minute can be applied to market research. For those who do not know a New York minute is an instant, which is infinitely shorter than the 60-second minute you and I work with. In the current haze of cloud-based thinking, we can apply this short attention span metric via the...read more

Making the Most of Facebook Sponsored Stories

Long-time users of Facebook have seen a lot of changes to the social networking website over the years, from status updates to timelines. But there's one Facebook feature that can help you develop your customer relationships instead of checking up on old flames: Facebook Sponsored Stories. Ernan...read more

Stretching the truth

Let’s now prepare for a return to the Political Silly Season. Sample size, confidence levels and intervals are critical to the public opinion polling process. However, another crucial aspect for consideration by researchers of all stripes is the nature of the sample and of the respondents.It is all...read more

My Top 15 Favorite Web Survey Blog Posts of 2011

Today, I started going through the Web Survey blog analytics to see which of our articles were the most popular. We wrote and published a staggering 476 posts so far in 2011! Next week I'll be sharing the Top 25 Most Popular Posts of 2011. However, some of my favorites just didn't make the cut this...read more

8 Tips to be Successful & 6 Ways to Generate Ideas

I happened across this TedTalk today from 2005: Richard St. John's 8 Secrets to Success. I've never met anyone who didn't want to know the secrets to success so I thought I'd share Richard's secrets: Passion, Work, Good, Focus, Push, Serve, Ideas and Persist. My personal favorite secret to success...read more

For Immediate, Quick Feedback Try an Online Poll

While some companies have embraced the power of the internet and take of advantage of user-generated content, real time, updates, and dynamic updates, some companies are still lagging behind.  For those companies that use the internet to power their business, an online poll can get immediate, quick...read more

Are Your Online Marketing Strategies Working?

Companies today must constantly evaluate their marketing and advertising efforts to remain competitive. But how do you stand out when consumers are being bombarded by more messages, in more ways than ever? It starts with knowing what is and isn't working for your particular brand or service.  Here...read more

Creating Electronic Surveys - The Unbiased, Cost-Effective Phone Alternative

From public opinion polls to customer satisfaction surveys, many organizations still rely on telephone interviews to collect consumer data. While collecting feedback from constituents is essential for continued success, allocating funds for telephone research may not be the best use of that market...read more

Example Event Seminar Survey Template Questions

Online software survey tools help a lot when it comes to creating web surveys or online survey forms. But writing satisfaction questionnaires still falls on your shoulders. It only seems right since it's up to you to set online survey feedback goals and make sure that the questions you pick when...read more

Vote for your favorite Pot Luck Dish with Ease

We all know the holidays are getting closer, which means office pot lucks are about to become all the rage. What will you be bringing? How is your office going to make sure that not everyone plans to bring the same thing? How do you determine the winner of this year's Tastiest Dish Awards?...read more
The Rise of the Smart Phone: Are you Leverging Mobile? 10 Tips for Mobile-Friendly Survey Creation