by May 6, 2013
What makes a community? Well certainly it is a collection of unique
individuals who call a single place home. It is also a place where
businesses hang their shingle. Collectively the residents and
businesses work together and if all goes well the community can
thrive. However, there is something...read more
by April 26, 2013
Online survey platforms, such as Cvent, offer the user a wide
variety of tools designed to maximize the user experience. After
all isn’t that what we are looking for…an engaged respondent that
provides truthful and enlightened responses? With that said it
amazes me how many surveys go out that do...read more
by February 13, 2013
Online survey platforms have provided B2B market researchers and
their kin in the consumer space expanded options for questionnaire
design. These options afford us the ability to create surveys that
are both engaging to the respondent and more likely to yield
actionable data for our clients.With the...read more
by February 12, 2013
In one of Ozzy Osbourne’s songs he uses the phrase “going forward
in reverse.” Little did the singer know that his lyrics would also
apply to survey research, specifically to the area of questionnaire
design. One of the key concerns facing researchers today is
data quality. It is all too easy for...read more
by January 23, 2013
Missing data can quickly turn your actionable consumer
insights into a lackluster pile of data. It is an issue that both
consumer analytics professionals and B2B market researchers face on
a regular basis. It is also an issue with which database marketers
must contend. In essence, data is missing...read more
by January 7, 2013
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
by November 26, 2012
Measuring customer satisfaction is as much art as it is science.
The mix of art and science varies, but one thing is for sure as we
enter the 2012 holiday shopping season a great deal of attention
will be paid to how satisfied customers are with their shopping
experience. Retail surveys will be...read more
by November 19, 2012
There is no doubt that our job as market researchers has become
easier due to the advent of online questionnaire design. The tools
available to us now have also made it less challenging to create
surveys that are engaging to the respondent which benefits the
overall quality of the data we collect....read more
by November 9, 2012
Online survey design is a bit science, a bit art and wee bit of
magic. Today we are going to focus on the artistic side of the
equation. The development of HTML, Flash and the numerous other
aspects that make the Internet experience and enjoyable one have
expanded the toolkit available to survey...read more
by October 24, 2012
When we ask for customer feedback on a survey our focus is almost
entirely on a specific product or service in question. Quite often
it involves measuring customer satisfaction, brand awareness or
some other variable directly impacting the 4Ps. However there seems
to be a trend toward concluding...read more
