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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.
Comcast’s Versus channel turned to research to better understand a core audience segment: Following a rebranding of its Outdoor Life Network as Versus, which broadened its scope to include other sports, Comcast Networks conducted in-depth research to show advertisers that the channel’s core audience of outdoorsmen was as strong as ever and receptive to ad messages outside of the hunting and fishing categories.
Considerations when employing a market research online community: The author outlines some of the specific trade-offs (big vs. small, general vs. specific, pure vs. passionate) that researchers make in choosing to use market research online communities.
How online communities can tap a company's greatest unused resource: the consumer: Online communities offer an opportunity to listen to customers and place them at the heart of a company's marketing strategy. By giving the respondent a seat at the decision-making table, companies can build strong and long lasting relationships that may not have been possible through offline media.

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Growing indoors: To determine the marketing potential of an indoor planter product, researchers applied a variety of research methods: a review secondary research, trade publications and sales materials; retail audits; in-store interviews; consumer and trade member interviews; and telephone interviews with retail buyers and distributors.
The new cultural mix: Segmenting is more than slicing a market into age-defined consumer groups. This article discusses segmentation in today’s culture, detailing four age groups and three buying power markets shaping today’s product demand.
Singles' lifestyles explored in JCPenney study: A recent survey by JCPenney explored the lifestyles and tendencies of the singles population. The consumer study, conducted by the Public Issues and Consumer Programs department of the JCPenney Co., helped the retail giant to better understand the approximately 77 million singles living in the United States.
Teen poll shows mixture of optimism and pessimism: Guideline Research Corp. recently conducted a study of 510 high school juniors and seniors across the United States for the American Home Economics Association. This article provides an overview of the study and its findings.
Segmentation study aims to help marketers understand diverse seniors market: Arguing that segmentation is a fundamental first step in reaching the mature market, the author explores results from her firm’s ongoing study of consumers aged 50 and older, comparing and contrasting the characteristics of a number of subsegments with the mature age groups.

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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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MULTICULTURAL MARKETING SUMMIT: October 27-29, 2010; Geoscape will hold its annual multicultural marketing summit on October 27-29 in Miami.
ESOMAR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CONFERENCE: November 16-18, 2010; ESOMAR will hold its qualitative research conference, themed 'Foresight on Moods and Thoughts,' on November 16-18 in Barcelona, Spain.

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