Increase Your Online Survey Response Rates

Posted on October 19, 2015

Survey Design, Invitations, Timing and Other Tips that Boost Participation I worked with one client who was resigned to one percent response rates on her organization’s surveys. There was little I could do to convince her that we could move the needle. On the other end of the spectrum, I worked with one association executive who was…

10 Habits of Highly Effective Marketing Researchers–Habit 2

Posted on February 5, 2009

When I began working with associations several years ago, I was baffled by some of the research that groups called “member needs assessments.” From what I could tell, the purpose of these surveys was far less about identifying members’ current and future issues, challenges and resulting needs than about grading the associations past activities. Certainly,…