Incentive Payment & Processing For Market Research

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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.

By the Numbers: Calling cell phones - the FCC makes a bad regulation worse

The MRA's Howard Fienberg details why a new proposed FCC rule intended to spare cell phone users from autodialers will hurt research, research users and the public.

How Marriott International tapped mobile research to get feedback on enhancements to its mobile site

Shared expectations and awareness of the technique’s strengths and weaknesses helped Marriott get the most out of a mobile survey of users of its Marriott Mobile site. The results augmented data gathered from a host of other sources to give a fuller look at the user experience.

Trade Talk: Landmark health care bill contained win for researchers

The 2010 health care bill included a modified version of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act that effectively excludes the honoraria that are usually paid to doctors for taking part in scientific survey and marketing research from the Sunshine Act’s reporting requirements.

Faster than a speeding survey: Part II: The physician's perspective

In the second part of a two-part series on online surveys with physicians, the authors explore doctors’ reasons for participating in the research process and examine the factors that can lead to speeding and cheating.

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Research encourages a comprehensive re-design of Blue Nun packaging

After conducting taste tests that confirmed that packaging was a factor in declining sales, Blue Nun wine held extensive focus groups with current and past consumers and competitive brand purchasers, as well as shelf tests, in its package re-design process.

Polaroid “checks out” the users of its professional films

Polaroid used ResponseCheck, which combines an incentive with a survey, to profile professional film users by market in an effort to learn which film types were most used in each of the markets and with what applications.

Research steers nightclub's respositioning

Horsefeathers nightclub conducted computer-assisted surveys and focus groups with customers and employees, performed a market analysis, and reviewed club operations in its efforts to reposition itself in the marketplace and subsequently increase its popularity with and sales to evening customers.