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Sponsored White Paper: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates
You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.
Sponsored White Paper: The Devil Is in the Data
This research-on-research report explains how DMS Research profiled and examined panelists and survey respondents in detail based on their survey-taking behavior to help determine how questionnaires can be designed to gather the most accurate information from different types of respondents.
Qualitatively Speaking: Mining LinkedIn for B2B interview leads
Using the tips detailed here, researchers can harness a few of LinkedIn’s lesser-known capabilities to mine for quality prospects for in-depth B2B interviews.
Using online behavior to measure the travel industry’s recession-based injury and recovery
An examination of Web search-related data from 2007 to 2009 charts the travel industry’s recession-induced slump and points at a possible turnaround in the offing.
When using laddering in B2B research, target your probes effectively
Responding to an October Quirk’s article on using laddering in consumer research, the author adds her own insights on how to make laddering work in the B2B setting by adjusting the process to better meet a busy professional’s mind-set.

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Using research to improve Web marketing
Marketers are spending millions to develop and promote their Web sites and marketing programs. In doing so, it is important to keep in mind that the Web puts the customer firmly in control. This article offers several guidelines for speaking with your customers and shares insights from recent Web marketing studies.
By The Numbers: Increase response rates by increasing relevance
Respondents’ perceptions of a survey’s relevance to them can have a major effect on participation rates. Using an online survey for a bank as an example, the author shows different phrasings for survey invites and how they impacted response rates.
Qualitatively Speaking: Is the quantitative follow-up an endangered species?
The Phase 2 follow-up study, which takes the findings from qualitative research and examines them using a quantitative study, seems to be in danger of disappearing. The author explores the threats facing it and outlines strategies to save it.
Packaging research - evaluating consumer reaction
Effective packaging is an essential part of product marketing, and consumer research is needed to determine the most effective packaging. There are many factors to determine before the product hits the shelf. Focus groups, mall intercept interviewing and test market auditing are three effective tools, and researchers have developed others to determine shelf impact.
Designing effective telephone interviews: objectives in the script development process
Designing an effective telephone interview is crucial to marketing research. This article details basic steps in one firm's interview scripting process.

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