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

Keep it simple, but also make it fun!

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

Adding Alerts to Surveys

One of the key roles researchers play in both consumer and B2B marketing research is that of advocate for the voice of the customer. We fulfill this role with both quantitative and qualitative data collection, including social media analysis. Given that the pace of information is increasing what can...read more

Employee and Customer Satisfaction Correlation

Is customer satisfaction strictly a function of the product or service the consumer purchased? The short answer is no. Is it solely dependent upon the context of the purchase situation? Again, no. From the depth of customer satisfaction research we can glean that customer satisfaction is a...read more

The Screen Door in Market Research Surveys

Marketing researchers have insight to share. Yet if you are involved in research and answer things truthfully you will, more likely than not, be screened out of most online survey opportunities. In full disclosure on a few occasions I have not listed myself as a research guy because of being really...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

National Customer Service Day: Experience Matters

Traditionally, Customer Service and been thought of as a Cost Center. And it's true! Thinking of customer service this way is going to make the lack of it cost you customers—and lots of them! And based on his tweet this morning, it seems that Don agrees. DonCooper The Sales Heretic™ Today is Nat'l...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

Conducting Multi-Language Surveys is Easier than Ever

Technology is making it easier than ever to expand into new markets and collaborate across cultures. With clients in over 50 countries, we understand the need to want to collect feedback in multiple languages. As such, we added the ability to conduct surveys in languages other than English to the...read more
The Rise of the Smart Phone: Are you Leverging Mobile? 10 Tips for Mobile-Friendly Survey Creation