18. Reach the right people
Fill quota & minimize weighting
Complete projects faster
Why Phone?
Reach demographics not accessible online
Validate identities better
Target under-quota segments to complete study faster
Prompt and Probe participants’ responses
Record the true Voice of the Consumer
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Challenge you to consider how we collect survey data today
For quick turnaround
Also balancing : Effects of self selection vs proactive outreach
How did we get here?
Organizational and technical barriers, cost, time to combine, skill sets / vendor capabilities, not necessarily effectiveness of the work produced.
But what are we giving up by limiting the vehicles for response?
How did we get here?
Silos were built based on specialties, cost and technological limitations, not necessarily effectiveness or accuracy of the work produced.
But what are we giving up by limiting the vehicles for response?
Underutilized mode:
Advantages of phone but without labor
As mentioned, this integration allows you to marry multiple data collection modes maintaining 1 data set.
You have the choice of starting in one mode and adding another later or beginning multiple modes from the start.
The streamlined workflow will hopefully let you worry more about what is right for your study and less about the logistics to achieve your goals.
Convenience = DIY, “launch anytime”
Large segments of the US population may not be reached online.
And of those who ARE Online: How different are they from younger, more affluent who are online more regularly and more consistently.
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More data:
The CDC report classified another 16.1% of U.S. households as being “wireless-mostly.” That means that although they have a land line, “all or almost all” of their calls are received on a wireless phone.
The researchers identified five groups of Americans in which the majority had dropped their land lines. Topping that list were adults who lived with unrelated adult roommates — 76.1% of them relied solely on a wireless phone. Next up were adults between 25 and 29, a group in which 65.7% were wireless-only. They were followed closely by adults who live in rental homes
— 61.7% had only a wireless phone, according to the report.
FROM A SEPARATE CDC STUDY IN 2H 2013
Among adults living in poverty, 56.2% had a wireless phone but no land line, the researchers found. That compares with 46.1% of adults who were “near poverty” and 36.6% of adults who had a “higher income.”
Finally, 53.1% of Latino adults were wireless-only, the only racial or ethnic group to cross the
50% threshold. In comparison, 42.7% of blacks, 38.1% of Asians and 35.1% of whites had also ditched their land lines, according to the report.
Midwesterners were more likely than Americans from any other part of the country to be classified as wireless-only, with 43.7% earning that designation. Americans in the South and West were close behind, with 41.9% and 41.2%, respectively, relying solely on their wireless phones. By comparison, only 24.9% of Northeasterners had cut the cord to their land line, the researchers reported.
Men held the edge over women when it came to living in wireless households, by a slim margin of 40.4% to 37.9%.
98% of the US population has phone service. 20% of the US population does not have Internet access.
Start in online survey
Show existing survey; show existing panel
Switch to Survox Console
Register the Online Project (mention that it only displays surveys that are active and that the user has access to)
Import the sample from a online panel
Activate the survey
Take the survey as an interviewer (talk through the dialer interaction but we won't use an actual dialer)
After running through a few respondents - go back into the online solution and show a report (report should include responses from both the web and phone interviews)
Least Cost Method first . Web is only a push. Who’s going to show up when?
Manage your Sample to fill quota
Unlike online surveys where you need to push and prod people to take the survey…
With good sample management, call centers can reach exactly who you need to fill quotas and nurture them through the whole survey to get the results you want.
But those barriers are coming down today we have the ability to create a single survey, employ multiple data collection strategies, and have the data all available for analysis in a single data set.
Now researchers can choose the right methods that fit EACH job and not be constrained by the technology.
RECORD TRUE VOICE of the customer
Voice of the Customer Examples
Retailers – provide incentive to collect feedback and now on receipt offer choice – URL or Phone # (which usually goes to an IVR system)
Service Quality checks
Major national home improvement chain that uses 3rd party installers uses phone interviewers to check on customer experience.
Sample is provided by a feed from other systems such as an ERP or POS
Too important to them to let respondent self-select who provides feedback.
Customer Support departments transfer caller to IVR survey post transaction
One large consumer products company uses national sampling and phone recruitment to get the right mix of consumers to take mail and web surveys for new product input.
Example: Automaker feeding recorded VOC directly back to automaker.
One survey, one data set produced….different modes of data collection employed for different audience segments
Online
Phone
In person using a tablet device
For example, if you’re a casino you’re going to treat your high rollers differently from your tourists
Or if you’re an airline you’ll treat your Platinum and 1K members differently than your Bronze level members.
Systematic and Coordinated approach
Once upon a time there was a Franchise Manager named Molly who had the tricky challenge of maintaining a consistent, high quality customer experience from services delivered by organizations that only indirectly reported to her.
Every day Molly made decisions about which locations to renew and which ones to drop, based solely on sales data. This approach created pretty high turnover and meant that at any given time there were a fair number of new franchises coming online, needing training, and depressing sales.
One day, Molly realized that her pipeline of new applicants was running low and she’d have to find a different way to deal with the problem locations.
Because of that, Molly worked with her team to come up with the key metrics that may yield an early warning of problems to come. She also developed a set of questions to ask customers to provide feedback on various aspects of the service. Now she needed to collect the data which is a problem since the franchisees ‘owned’ the customer relationship and customer contact information was not available. Molly was blocked.
Until finally, she realized that her organization supplied the POS system used to print receipts. Now she could appeal directly to the customers themselves with an incentive to tell her what she needed to know….and to maximize the feedback she decided to give her customers a choice of ways to respond.
Now, each receipt is now printed with both an 800# and a URL to a quick survey…giving Molly and her team the insight needed to identify potential problems and how to help them. Franchise turnover has been dramatically reduced.
~100% have phone
14% all US adults don’t have internet access so 14/86 = 16% increase in potential respondents or ‘reach’
41% seniors don’t have access so 41/59=70% increase in reach to this segment
~20% of minorities, rural, etc don’t have access so 20/80 = 25% increase in reach
Now you can give people a choice of ways to engage to maximize your results.
Invite them to a web survey or provide a phone number.
When they call in you can have a live person greet them
Or you can use an automated IVR system to screen and forward or simply conduct the survey
And if you’re a large company…
Differentiated data collection strategy for 360 reviews or new policy/product roll-outs.
Executives – In-person (web survey on tablet)
High Potential & Management – recorded Phone interviews
Staff – Web survey
Or a Hybrid: web for basics, phone for indepth questions/clarification
One survey – possibly different lengths
Central analysis
One survey, one data set produced….different modes of data collection employed for different audience segments
Online
Phone
In person using a tablet device
For example, if you’re a casino you’re going to treat your high rollers differently from your tourists
Or if you’re an airline you’ll treat your Platinum and 1K members differently than your Bronze level members.
When quota and demographics matter most. Polling used to be phone only, due to time requirements to ‘fill quota’.
Now, IVR and Web are being used to
Daily public opinion poll – EVERY day 1000 responses are collected using RDD sampling; Not 999 or 1001 but exactly 1000 or not a valid sample.
- Phone provides reliable response rates so that they get all the responses needed
- Quota management ensures that they don’t oversample
Campaign strategists
Call with the candidate every night at 10 pm
At 9 pm the strategist calls the polling center to get the days results
Accurate insights depend on tight sample control that produces responses from a replicate of the target population.
i.e. The polling center had to have collected input from exactly the demographic mix that is expected to vote
Once upon a time there was a city manager named Harold who prided himself on always engaging in public discourse before making a policy change or offering a new service.
Every day Harold would check the polls on the city’s web page to see what his constituents were saying. He would use the data he gathered from these surveys to inform the various decisions he and his staff made on behalf of its taxpayers.
One day, the City Council (his boss) decided to do some Town Hall meetings (sort of like focus groups) in neighborhoods across the city to make sure there were no surprises in the upcoming election. You see, City Council members, unlike the City Manager, are each elected by the voters. So they held the Town Hall meetings and boy, did they get an earful! Council Members came back to Harold with a long list of issues and general unhappiness in the way the town was managed. Quite a gap emerged in what Harold was seeing online and what the Council members were hearing in person.
Because of that, Harold knew he was in danger of losing his job and had to rethink his citizen outreach strategy. Whereas he felt pretty good about the profile of respondents online, he realized that those who showed up to the Town Halls may have been a completely different segment of voters. In order to avoid future surprises like this, the City needed a broader polling strategy to ensure that all citizen voices were being heard. Harold was in trouble.
Until finally, after researching the best practices of other city leaders, Harold decided to invest in an approach that used a variety of methods to hear from voters. He kept his online surveys going but also ran ads in the local paper with two ways to take the survey – via the online survey or by calling a local number for a phone-based survey. Harold also kept track of who was responding. He wanted to make sure he had a good cross section from each neighborhood, age group, and ethnic backgrounds.
Now, when he needs input from a given group, Harold arranges for outbound calls to be made to citizens in those segments. Never again will he make the mistake of assuming that a passive approach to collecting feedback is sufficient.
Use multiple modes to stay within budget AND still reach quota.
Maximize responses from most cost effective method first – online.
Finish with outbound IVR or phone interviewing to complete quota.
- IVR has the Telco expense
- Phone interviewing has Telco and labor expense
Open up your thinking: Don’t be constrained in your practice by organizational structure, technology or vendor.
But those barriers are coming down and what we are bringing to the market is the ability to create a single survey, employ multiple data collection strategies, and have the data all available for analysis in a single data set.
Now researchers can choose the right methods that fit EACH job and not be constrained by the technology.
Can have mode based differences. Embedded data field call SurveyType is passed (mobile or web) then you can have skip logic based on that value
Optional:
Screens customized by mode
Introduction to survey– web vs. Interviewer script
Additional Interviewer instructions – “read the list”
Interviewer questions / selections
Regardless of the point at which phone is brought in to the flow,
all survey response data resides within the Qualtrics database.
No importing, no merging
Existing reports and integrations continue to work
Because the modality of data collection is stored in the data, you can create mode specific reports and analysis.
If multimode you might start with web and phone with fixed daily targets.
Or
You might start on web then bring on phone to round out your data collection and fill in the quotas after giving
respondents some time to complete the survey via web and a subsequent reminder blast as illustrated in the
Production report on the right.
Open up your thinking: Don’t be constrained in your practice by organizational structure, technology or vendor.
But those barriers are coming down and what we are bringing to the market is the ability to create a single survey, employ multiple data collection strategies, and have the data all available for analysis in a single data set.
Now researchers can choose the right methods that fit EACH job and not be constrained by the technology.