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Using Pre-Survey Incentives to Increase Survey Response Rates

So let’s say that you need to get 500 survey responses. Which is going to be more efficient: sending a list of potential respondents a $5 gift cards along with a request to take a survey or them the promise of a $10 gift certificate if they take your survey? In 2002 Alhoscha Kaplan and Glenn White of Ernst & Young published a paper in which they did such a test and their results were a little surprising. Continue reading

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PSOL Boosts Response Rate +23% with Prizes

Lake Superior College recently collected data for its 4th Priorities Survey for Online Learners, a standardized-ish survey from Noel-Levitz that helps schools measure the satisfaction of their online programs.  What’s neat (from my perspective) is that this year they offered their survey pool of … Continue reading

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Model for Maximizing Online Survey Panel Response Rates

Unless you have a practically limitless number of potential survey respondents at your disposal, you probably spend a lot of time thinking about how you can maximize your response rates — that is, the percentage of people that you invite … Continue reading

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Consumers Rebel Against Marketers’ Endless Surveys

Last week 30 of the top executives in market research met for a rountable at the Research Industry Summit for Improving Respondent Cooperation. It would appear that response rates of less than 10 percent are becoming more common, with reports … Continue reading

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