Survey length is a constant struggle for event marketing research. If your survey is too long, participants will be reluctant to finish the survey, or even start it in...
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Questions to Include in Every Event Marketing Survey
Researchers use surveys to enter the mind of the consumer. An event marketing survey should be clear, concise, and provide relevant and impactful data. Survey design is not a...
Discovering Consumer Attitudes Can Identify Prospective Customers
PortMA conducted a national online survey in 2014 to help a client update their marketing strategy with their website and other promotional materials. The client was beginning to see a...
Best Practices for Event Research Methodology (Part 1)
Winter is drawing to a close, and I know what you are all thinking now, “It’s too cold for festivals and fairs. The experiential world is on vacation!” If that’s...
Survey Participants Playing Hopscotch
As surveys get more complicated, with skip patterns and more questions in general, the risk of survey participants making mistakes increases. Planning ahead can help to mitigate some of that...
Moderating Success
While much of the work we do at PortMA is quantitative, we also conduct qualitative research from time to time. These qualitative research efforts most often take the form of...
Incorporating Open-Ended Feedback
Open-ended feedback from survey questions can be important for a number of reasons. The most obvious one being that you don’t know enough about consumers to give them a...
Quick Guidelines for Making Your Survey Design Cleaner
Personally, I find that survey data becomes burdensome somewhere around the 20th question. That applies to both paper and online surveys, though for different reasons. The first steps to making these...
With Great Market Research Data Comes Great Responsibility
A previous post outlined key considerations for designing a “perfect” survey and described the impact survey design can have on data quality. But ensuring actionable data is not guaranteed...
Tips for Managing Paper Surveys
Paper surveys end up being a part of many programs. Managing the influx of paper surveys is a key to making sure they do not bog down your ability...