Ensure your next survey is accurate and insightful, with one email a week

Marketers at brands and agencies: Every Tuesday get an email (2-3 mins) featuring:
1 mini lesson on survey design.
1 “steal-this” question for polls and customer surveys.

Plus, periodic data goodies: curated datasets, vendor tips, downloadable visualizations for decks, and other consumer insight resources.

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Survey jargon and bad design is costing brands millions in lost revenue. Curious to learn more? Check out previous newsletters:

A good survey question is a flashlight, not a floodlight.

Remove ‘metadiscourse’ from your surveys.

Never ask respondents to perform more than one task.

The question that made Bill Belichick say ‘Can I be vulnerable for a second?‘

See all previous newsletter here.

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I’m a research consultant and the publisher of this newsletter, which I created to share insights from my experience designing surveys for brands, agencies, and Fortune 500s, including:

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