Should I Buy a List of Respondents for my Survey?

 One of the most productive things you can do for your organization is to develop your own, opted-in group of volunteers to participate in ongoing research and discussions. Your proprietary research panel (or “Insiders” or “Advisory Panel” or whatever you want to call it) can serve a variety of valuable roles: They can reduce…

You might be surprised to know how many of your survey respondents are going to participate using a mobile device — often a smartphone. That small screen requires more than just shrinking the font! In this video I share some considerations for mobile survey respondents.

 Even if you’re not very familiar with research, you’ve heard the terms “quantitative” and “qualitative”. What’s the real difference? These terms refer to types of data — not necessarily to research approaches. Quantitative results are those you can count, that you can tabulate. These are either numbers you can work with mathematically or text…