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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.
Brazilian hair care firm Beleza Natural thrives by keeping close to its roots: On-site visits help researchers understand the icons and ideals used by a Brazilian hair care firm to both inspire and form a bond with its working-class customers.
How Sony BMG used the Web to reach a disappearing audience: After losing a chunk of its audience to Web-based music consumption, Sony BMG teamed up with Globalpark to create an online panel of music fans to gain faster, deeper insight using “surveytainment.”

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Trade Talk: Book provides valuable insight into U.S. lifestyles: This article reviews The Clustering of America, a book by Michael Weiss that examines the United States through the lens of PRIZM, the target marketing system develop by Claritas Corp. that uses U.S. Census Bureau data and other information to create 40 distinct lifestyle depictions of 250,000 U.S. neighborhoods.
The value of retaining customers: First Union Home Equity Corporation conducted a study using secondary research on other companies and meetings with an international management consulting firm, a former AT&T executive, and a USAA retention specialist to improve customer retention.
The mature market...is it for real?: One of the hot topics in marketing in the 1990s was the senior market. This article discusses how marketers and advertisers today seem to be ignoring the mature market in favor of a youth orientation and examines the numbers that led the pundits to urge marketers to target mature customers.
With Boomers, the time is now: Profiles Boomers as consumers and offers four ways to segment this large and powerful group.
Data Use: Getting your money's worth with virtual targeting: Virtual targeting uses a blend of statistical techniques that identify the distinguishing characteristics of the target group and then build a linear equation that can be applied to records of the group to achieve a sortable, analyzable score. The article focuses on the example of a political candidate hunting for possible voters.

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Market statistics: Numerical summary data about the demand, actual or potential, for a product or service category.

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PMRG ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE: March 21-23, 2010; PMRG will hold its annual national conference on March 21-23 at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Fla.
IIR YOUTH AND FAMILY MARKETING MEGA EVENT: May 10-12, 2010; IIR will hold a conference on youth and family marketing on May 10-12 at the Hotel Sax Chicago in Chicago.

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