Tag Archives: Survey Mailing Services

How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: #3 Distributing and Collecting The Surveys

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 […]

How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: #2 Printing and Organizing the Survey Material

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. […]

How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: Phase 1 – Design The Mail Survey Materials

How to Manage Your Mail Survey Timeline When in a Rush: #1 Design Mail Survey Materials

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 […]

Effect of Colors on Mail Survey

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 […]

8 Common Survey Bias Errors and How to Avoid Them

8 Common Survey Bias Errors and How to Avoid Them

When done correctly, surveys are the golden key in social science research – helping us uncover the attitudes and behaviors of a target population like no other platform. As with all scientific research, however, they are susceptible to bias. Bias is a sneaky, subtle characteristic that can creep into any part of your research in […]

4 Ways to Reduce Vendor Management Challenges

4 Ways

Successful survey projects rely on a wide range of specialized skills and technologies. Because very few organizations have the capabilities to handle the entire survey administration in-house, it is typically necessary to outsource the work to multiple vendors. Depending on the complexity of your project, the number of vendors you may need to manage can […]

How to Design a Survey Form (Easy 7 Step Process)

How to Design a Survey Form

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 […]

6 Common Survey Design Errors to Avoid

6 Common Survey Design Errors to Avoid

Many factors should be considered for a survey project to be a success, and as it turns out, only a couple of survey errors can lead to its downfall. To prevent this disastrous situation from happening to your research, we’ve listed the 6 Common Survey Errors to Avoid and some tips to manage them. Mistake […]

How to Write a Mail Survey Reminder

Reminders are known to be effective in increasing response rates for mail surveys. Many studies have shown that an important factor in survey success is the number of contacts made throughout the data collection project. (Dillman, 1978; Lavrakas, 1993; Willimack et al., 1995). The “Total Design Method” (TDM) of Dillman(1978) for data collection includes a […]

Sugging: A Condemned Survey Practice

Sugging: A Condemned Survey Practice

Have you ever thought about using “research” as a means of entry or acceptance to make a sales pitch for your company’s product or services? If so, you might not have heard of the term sugging yet. Sugging means “selling under the guise of research,” a term used in the research industry to describe the […]

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