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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: Capitalizing on Customer Feedback - Creating Measurable Value from Voice-of-the-Customer (VOC) Programs: It seems like everyone is now collecting customer feedback. However, if you have already launched your customer feedback program, you have likely discovered that turning customer feedback initiatives into a highly effective, thriving VOC program is not a simple task. Creating and implementing a thriving and highly effective VOC program requires the right vision, awareness, and accountability that link the investments to the observed returns. “Capitalizing on Customer Feedback” addresses these three themes and provides the reader with examples of the principles in practice. The reader will be introduced to: new ways to think about customer feedback; top nine most popular customer feedback strategies; five steps of VOC evolution; four principles to realizing a strong return on your VOC program; two real-life case studies demonstrating the concepts in action.
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.

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New problems, new solutions: Diary panels, due to their nature and complexity, present unique problems in translation from a paper-based to an online approach and require new solutions. Important issues to consider involve incentives, panelist experience and diary design.
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.
The upward spiral of innovation: SPSS has continued its fast-paced release schedule of new products and major updates. This article reviews three updates: SPSS Version 11, DeltaGraph Version 5 and AnswerTree 3.
PA Law: The Pennsylvania Bar Association conducted a telephone survey of lawyers recently admitted to practice. The survey probed the reasons why people go to law school, what their hopes and aspirations are, and how their opinions changed during their education - both after they were admitted to the bar and during the first few years of practice. In addition, the survey was designed to determine ways to help new lawyers handle the challenges they face.
Trade Talk: It’s all about me: A report on a study of single-person households and their buying habits.

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Statistical analysis: The analysis and interpretation of collected data for the purposes of summarizing information to make it meaningful and usable.

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ESOMAR ANNUAL CONGRESS: ODYSSEY 2010: September 12-15, 2010; ESOMAR will hold its annual congress, themed 'Odyssey 2010 - The Changing Face of Market Research,' on September 12-15 in Athens, Greece.
AMA MARKETING RESEARCH CONFERENCE: September 26-29, 2010; The American Marketing Association will hold its annual marketing research conference on September 26-29 at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta.

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