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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.
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.
Data Use: Telling the future from the past: predictive versus classical statistics: This article compares and contrasts predictive and classical statistics, making the case that predictive methods offer an effective way to use current data to make statements about future data.

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The MCAPI primer: This second of two parts offering a primer on MCAPI concludes with advice on how to select and use an MCAPI system. The discussion includes software, hardware, implementation issues and additional resources.
Portable electronic interviewing device goes where the respondents are: This article describes a portable computer kiosk that can be placed attended or unattended in high-traffic locations such as malls or department stores to conduct surveys and gather respondent data. The system offers multilingual options, touch-screen as well as standard keyboard formats, and can edit and present digital maps that can determine where a respondent lives. Various applications for the technology are highlighted.
Qualitatively Speaking: Bring a can-do attitude to recruiting out-of-facility focus groups: A veteran recruiter explores what it takes to secure respondents for focus groups in non-standard settings.
Smoothing out that Texas twang: This article describes a research firm’s experience with developing a linguistic training program for its telephone interviewers, addressing guidelines in developing its program and the benefits to both the employees and the business.
Mail surveys still a viable research technique: While mail surveys are emphasized today less than other research options, they remain a valuable tool for researchers. In fact, they are often the most effective and efficient method for obtaining data. This article discusses using and creating mail surveys.

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Data collection field services: A research service responsible for conducting a client's Interviewing project. The service provider hires and trains interviewers, conducts the interviews and edits and validates the interviewers data for a client's survey project. Also known as interviewing service.

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN WEB 2.0: THE NEXT LEAP: March 25-26, 2010; The Merlien Institute will hold a workshop, themed 'Qualitative Research in Web 2.0: The Next Leap,' on March 25-26 at the Holiday Inn Berlin City - West in Berlin, Germany.
GARTNER BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SUMMIT: April 12-14, 2010; Gartner will hold its business intelligence summit on April 12-14 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

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