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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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A Newsweek survey reveals the factors that drive compact truck: Newsweek surveyed buyers of the 38 compact truck models for 1989 that were available in late 1988 using an eight-page questionnaire to provide a database about buyers, their vehicles, and the purchase process they automotive industry can use as a tool to better serve future buyers. This article is a review of the key elements in the process of buying a product that becomes a major reflection of the owner’s personality—in this case, a truck.
Trade Talk: Syndicated study finds college market viable: College students are often mistakenly seen as having less buying power and influence than adults. This article discusses the findings of CollegeTrack’s research with students on 30 college campuses across the United States, including misconceptions about this buying segment and advertising during Spring Break.
Research helps Boy Scouts of America communicate an active, adventurous image: Boy Scouts of America used focus groups with former Cub Scouts and their mothers, along with ongoing tracking research, in the development of a marketing campaign that would increase awareness that Boy Scouting is an activity-oriented program that differs in many respects from Cub Scouting.
Data Use: Predicting housing value from income: a simple example of the logit response model: The housing industry has grown tremendously in the 1980s. This article describes a way to analyze the table of households cross-classified by housing value and housing income from the 1980 Census by using the logit response model.
Study tracks trends in refusal rates: This article discusses the “Your Opinion Counts” National Steering Committee’s 1988 study of survey respondents’ refusal to be interviewed, providing a comparison to the benchmark study conducted in 1985.

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Demographics: Description of the vital statistics or objective and quantifiable characteristics of an audience or population. Demographic designators include age, marital status, income, family size, occupation, and personal or household characteristics such as age, sex, income, or educational level.

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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.
THE LIFE STAGE MARKETING SUMMIT: May 10-12, 2010; IIR will hold an event, themed 'The Life Stage Marketing Summit,' on May 10-12 at the Hotel Sax Chicago in Chicago.

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