In distributing and collecting surveys, the logistics involved in mail survey planning include selecting appropriate transportation, warehousing, choosing the most effective transportation routes, discovering the most reliable delivery method, return mail handling, inventory tracking, and follow-up mailings. Poor logistical planning will gradually increase your timeline as well as cost. Moreover, this stage also involves filing […]
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Survey Mailing Services, Survey Research Services
How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: #2 Printing and Organizing the Survey Material
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Nov
Nov
The volume, complexity, and length of your survey will affect the amount of time required to print and mail survey materials. In printing questionnaires that require optical mark recognition, data capture barcodes, or pre-slugging for precise scanning and tracking, even small errors can be significant, particularly in time. Purchasing supplies will also impact this stage. […]
Survey Mailing Services
How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: Phase 1 – Design The Mail Survey Materials
07
Oct
Oct
You know you want two things: a quality mail survey and the results in the earliest possible time. You need mail survey results with optimum data integrity. And, you need to get it and understand it before your target deadline, which is not so far away. So, how can you manage your mail survey timeline […]
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Sep
Sep
Mail Surveys are widely used in research for data collection. However, unlike telephone or interview, researchers don’t have direct contact with participants. To increase response rates for mail surveys, different techniques have been proven to work, including pre-notification mailings, reminders, incentives, and multimodal strategies. But how about the appearance of the mailings? Studies on the […]
05
Aug
Aug
Promoting employee surveys is an essential part of data collection for employee surveys because, without a sufficient number of responses, survey results can be deemed flawed. You may have to start the entire survey process again. To avoid this, check out our tips below on how to increase response rates to your employee survey. Prioritize […]
03
Jun
Jun
What SOC 2 Compliance Means for Your Data In today’s business world, data security is critical. According to a report by Accenture in 2019, US companies lost $24.7 Million in 2018 from cybercrime. Accordingly, if you’re an enterprise with more stringent data security standards, you have to look for a SOC 2 compliant vendor. SOC […]
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May
May
If you’re in survey research, you know that incentives and pre-notification letters can significantly increase survey response rates. But did you know that colors can also impact your survey response? Using the wrong color can make your survey challenging to read or complete while using the right color can make your survey more appealing for […]
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Mar
Mar
Looking for a means to evaluate employee collaboration in the workplace? Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) is a tool to help understand the interaction of people in an organization by mapping workforce communication patterns into a diagram. The diagram illustrates the flow of communication. In doing so, one can trace how people share information, make decisions, […]
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Jan
Jan
Here’s the truth, answering surveys is not on the list of anyone’s favorite thing to do- and without a good survey design your survey form might just end up in someone’s trash bin. The good news is, survey design is not rocket science, and it takes only a handful of simple steps and principles for […]
Data Capture Services, Survey Research Services
Difference Between a Balanced and Unbalanced Rating Scales
04
Dec
Dec
Rating Scales are valuable measurement instruments in research. Researchers need to understand the properties of these scales, and their influences on the responses gathered from their use. Generally, balanced scales are being used in research. Findings show that there is a difference in results when a balanced scale is used instead of an unbalanced scale. […]