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AMA Webcast: Social Media – The New Frontier of Customer Feedback

Join the American Marketing Association for the free March 23 webcast titled, “Social Media – The New Frontier of Customer Feedback.” Speakers include Matthew Bowman, former CEO of Wi5Connect (a social media company) and Eric Weight of Attensity (text analytics expert). To register, go to http://bit.ly/ajOQop

Webinar on VOC best practices

Bob Caruso is the former head of JD Power’s VOC Center of Excellence. He’s giving a webinar next Monday (Dec 10) on the top 10 best practices of VOC practitioners. He plans on doing a deep dive and field people’s questions. He’s also a former F4 fighter pilot from the Air Force so he is [...]

First Impressions Matter (Part 2 in a Series on Electronic (email) Survey Response Rates)

Response rates to e-mail surveys can sometimes be low. Here are some tips for improving them.

Observations from BAI 2008: Banking, Innovation and the Current Leadership Gap

There is a real sense of fear in the banking industry right now, and at the 2008 BAI Retail Delivery Conference and Expo, a conference at which we just exhibited last week, that fear was almost palpable. While in any other year the following statement would have encouraged prospective attendees to pay the registration fee [...]

Why Do Electronic (email) Survey Response Rates Seem so Low? I Have a Theory, and a Way to Help Improve Them.

Many of the people within companies who are sending out surveys are people who are not email marketing experts. Here are some common mistakes to avoid to watch your response rates climb.

The Right Sized Survey

The average marketing manager should be able to put together a good survey. However, somehow this is not happening as often as one would expect. This article offers insights on how to make this process easier.