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Huge Thanks To Our Charitable Survey Takers

Thanks SurveyMonkey Contribute members

Should we be surprised that we have an amazing group of survey takers?

We kicked off 2012 with some high ambitions for SurveyMonkey Contribute, and we are happy to say that you, dear Contribute members, have continued to exceed our …

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SurveyMonkey Goes Brazil

On stage at Endeavor

Earlier this month, I was fortunate to spend some time with entrepreneurs, reporters and partners in Brazil.  It was a whirlwind trip.  We announced our local country manager, Rodolfo Ohl, and got to experience, first-hand, the excitement and rapid growth …

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TrueSample Quality Council

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting our 7th TrueSample Quality Council meeting in New York.  As always, it was well attended by member companies, research buyers such as General Mills, P&G, Unilever, Samsung, and research suppliers such as …

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Survey Responses: To Incentivize Or Not To Incentivize?

offering incentives to survey respondents can improve response rates

Deciding whether or not to offer incentives to your survey respondents can pose a challenge for a lot of survey makers out there. An incentive may increase your survey’s response rate, but also has the potential to skew responses. So what should …

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Google+ versus Facebook— Facts Revealed! (A Social Networks Survey: Part 4, Site Strengths and Weaknesses)

This week, we’re concluding our 4-part series on competing social networks: Google+ and Facebook. Using SurveyMonkey Audience, we surveyed over 1,400 people to get a sense of how the public uses the two social media platforms. We then distilled the results down …

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Guest Blogger: Robert Cradle from Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation

Robert Cradle Gifts for Grooming

 

Master barber, Robert Cradle, is as good with a survey as he is with his clippers.

My name is Robert Cradle, and I am a Master Barber and founder of Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation (RBCF). The RBCF operates projects in Maryland …

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Privacy and Market Research, At A Glance

While Security has long been near the top of priority lists for most companies dealing with technology, Privacy has been slower to climb the priority ladder. Fortunately, this is starting to change: the growth of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

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How To NOT Write Your Online Survey Questions

double barreled survey questions

Spring break is around the corner and your just-barely-in-college teenager mentions that she is thinking of going to Florida. Without you. You, being the supporting parent that you are, blurt out something like:

“Do you want to go to Florida …

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SurveyMonkey Audience Screams For Tax Day

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch

Tax Day. For some, it’s the promise of a long awaited refund. For others, it’s a last minute scramble to find those W-2 forms. For most, it’s a day that’s sentiment is best evoked by Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.”

But …

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Google+ versus Facebook— Facts Revealed! (A Social Networks Survey: Part 3, Predictions of Future Usage)

Rates of usage

And now, part 3 of our 4-part series on competing social networks: Google+ and Facebook. Using SurveyMonkey Audience, we surveyed over 1,400 people to get a sense of how the public uses the two social media platforms. We then distilled …

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