The Emotional Dimension

In a previous post I discussed the basics for conducting online advertising testing. With the advent of online survey platforms the ability to test various advertising messages and formats is easier than ever. Gone are the days of renting large rooms and embedding ads in mock programs. The current...read more

Skip This: Survey Logic Best Practices

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

Ad Testing 101

There was a day not long ago that advertising testing involved sitting large numbers of people in a room and showing them ads embedded in pilot television shows with a pre-exposure survey and a post-test assessment following the programming and ad exposure. My how things have changed! With the...read more

Show Respondents Love

It’s time to reach out and touch someone. All eyes are on Valentine’s Day and sharing the love. How does this thought process apply to market research you may ask? Well that’s easy to see if you consider each survey touchpoint an opportunity to share a bit of love. It doesn’t matter if you are...read more

Adding Questions to the Matrix

On occasion a survey comes my way that illustrates, either with excellence or lack of vision, good online survey design. The illustration below comes from a customer satisfaction survey provided by a regional grocery store to their online community. The table speaks to one dimension of the...read more

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

Testing Using the ABCs

At one point we all learned our ABCs. With the pace of change currently increasing in the marketing research world we are now in need of a refresher. In this case the A and B refer to the concept of A/B testing and the C is the outcome of that test, better known as the Champion. A/B testing has long...read more

Measuring Progress

How much longer do I have to go to complete this thing? As someone who is actively involved in online survey creation, not to mention someone who enjoys taking surveys, I am greatly concerned about survey length and how we convey that length to our participants. One of the more common ways of...read more

The Almighty 'Other'

The almighty ‘Other’ category can be incredibly useful in creating meaningful input for survey data analysis. As a B2B marketing researcher, who has spent considerable time in the consumer market research arena as well, I can say that no matter how well my category lists are constructed there are...read more

Sliding into Interactive Questions

Sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Other times pictures can be the best way to break up the routine inherent in consumer and B2B marketing research surveys. Cvent, as an online survey platform, offers multiple ways to involve imagery and interactivity in the questionnaire design....read more
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