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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.

A revised paradigm for Hispanic acculturation

To effectively understand Hispanic consumers, you must go beyond language and incorporate a range of cultural influences, the authors argue.

Conducting ethnographic research with Hispanic consumers

Through tips and a case study example, the authors explain the value of using ethnographic research methods to better understand the Hispanic market.

Data Use: Trying to bring the numbers alive

A report on efforts to fuse behavioral, psychographic and demographic information to identify segments and track marketing results.

Product configuration: a research technique for the times

With more and more opportunities available for consumers to design their own products, a research tool that uses a similar approach makes perfect sense, the authors say.

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Data Use: Choice modeling analytics - the benefits of new methods

Calibrated market simulators that incorporate individual-respondent part-worth utilities, aggregated to market outcomes and properly calibrated, can improve the ability to predict bottom-line revenue impacts of line extensions and restages.

Effective qualitative research in China requires understanding of customs, cultures and techniques

In addition to a general overview of conducting qualitative research in China, the author presents tips on why certain techniques work or don't work and also offers guidelines on how to select a research firm when working in China.

Supplementing omnibus data paints clearer picture of Polish market

Macro International combined its qualitative results with cross-sectional omnibus results to obtain valuable insight into the Polish woman.

Psycho-socio-cultural Hispanic research

Psycho-socio-cultural research is considers psychological, sociological and cultural theory when addressing market problems across cultures. It merges what is known about people, societies and cultures with empirically-gathered data about specific attitudes, behaviors and beliefs. This article addresses the importance of considering psycho-sociocultural variables in the design and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative research involving Hispanic groups.

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.

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