What Should My Response Rate Be?

 It’s not as easy as just offering everyone a gift card or a chance at an iPad. Incentive strategy can have a big impact on your response rate (and your legal liability)!

 Whether you’re dealing with a decision-maker in your organization or with a client, you’ll likely come across this question. Those who have been working in organizations for some time often have assumptions about their customers and prospects that are firmly entrenched. The “Why bother?” question is one you’ll need to be prepared to answer….

 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…

 Often my clients are worried that a few “rogue actors” who are unhappy with the company’s service or simply racing through the survey to get to the incentive are going to torpedo the reliability of the research results. Can this actually happen? You bet! Can you avoid that happening to your data? You bet!…