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American Marketing Association (AMA) Presentation (09-13)
1. The Secret
to Successful Survey Projects
Better Decision Making Fueled by Data
American Marketing Association
SEP 2013
2. 2
• VP, GM of SurveyMonkey
Audience
• Five years @ the Monkey
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Hi,
I’m Brent
3. Why do marketers LOVE survey data?
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To try and
understand the
public's way of
thinking.
Often proves a
point or opens
up a new market
Able to quickly provide
feedback to industry
decision makers to
demonstrate we stay
informed and keep them
informed.
Concrete data to
tell us how our
consumers
think/feel
Narrows down a wide
variety of a group's
opinions,habits, and
preferences to help give you
better direction in making
marketing decisions and
taking action.
I like statistics and
analytics so when I
see numbers, it
helps me to make,
what I think, are
better informed
decisions.
I love the research
and statistics that
come out of surveys.
It’s fact. You can
make decisions.
Lets us know what the
customer wants, otherwise
we are making decisions
based off of stereotypes,
gut reactions, or the past.
13. The challenges
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• Sign off takes much
longer than expected
• Projects can be costly
• Creating questions that
will produce reliable data
is challenging
14. The challenges
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• Sign off takes much
longer than expected
• Projects can be costly
• Creating questions that
will produce reliable data
is challenging
• Takes weeks (sometimes
months) to get data back
19. Remember your 8th grade science fair?
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• Make an observation
• Propose a hypothesis
• Design an experiment
• Test
• Accept or reject the hypothesis
• Revise hypothesis or draw conclusions
21. Now, what SHOULD happen after a meeting…
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Observation Identified a trend for study
Hypothesis Draft your final presentation: blog post, research report, memo, ppt
Design
Design a survey that provides the data you need & ONLY the data you
need
Test Deploy survey
Accept/Reject
hypothesis Insert findings into draft presentation
Revise/Accept
hypothesis Make business decision
22. If you try this…
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• Your project timing/cycle will be much faster
• You will have time to do follow up projects
- Or make survey tweaks after you capture initial data
• The hard part of your conclusion/presentation
stage is done by the time you start to analyzing
• Analysis will be fast
- Short surveys = fewer data points
- And, well structured questions!
24. Netflix
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• In early 2013, Netflix debuted ‘House of Cards”
as a blockbuster original series
• How would subscribers react? Would it start a
new chapter in content creation and distribution?
• Our customer found out way before everyone
else
25. Drafting our blog post/memo/research report
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Netflix launched ‘House of Cards’. Netflix will provide metrics on
viewership in several months. In anticipation, we talked to [XXX] Netflix
subscribers last week to predict ‘House of Cards’ viewership and how
important original content will be to Netflix subscribers.
We found that [XXX] of Netflix customers surveyed had watched
‘House of Cards’. Of those who had watched the show, viewers
reported watching [XXX] episodes on average.
How will this impact Netflix? [XXX] of the ‘House of Cards” viewers
indicated that original programming was [XXX] important as a
subscription retention driver for Netflix.
28. SurveyMonkey Audience
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• Millions of people ready to
share their opinions
• Recruited from
SurveyMonkey
• Rewarded with charitable
donations
• Trustworthy opinions
• Dozens of targeting options
• Global respondents
34. Filling in the blanks
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Netflix launched ‘House of Cards’. Netflix will provide
metrics on viewership in several months. In
anticipation, we talked to over 150 Netflix subscribers
last week to predict ‘House of Cards’ viewership and
how important original content will be to Netflix
subscribers.
We found that 20% of Netflix customers surveyed had
watched ‘House of Cards’. Of those who had watched
the show, viewers reported watching nine episodes on
average.
How will this impact Netflix? 26% of the ‘House of
Cards” viewers indicated that original programming was
extremely or very important as a subscription retention
driver for Netflix.
35. Making better decisions
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• Does this replace the need for your research
department? Or for your research agency?
- No, but this process empowers everyone
• Test out concepts, campaigns, and use data to
make more decisions be great decisions
• At today’s speed of business, you can’t afford not
to incorporate data into your decision making
36. Top use cases for marketers
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• Message testing
• Creative testing
• Product research
• Brand research
• Segmentation studies
• Persona development
• Competitive research
• Content generation
37. Now you give it a try
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• Pay only for the survey respondents
• We do the rest
- We’ll help you create an amazing survey for free ($999
value)
Email:
Visit:
AMA@surveymonkey.com
audience.surveymonkey.com
*Conditions: Offer expires on October 30, 2013. You, or someone at your company, must have been an attendee at the
AMA New Orleans 2013 Convention. Limit of 1 discount per customer. Survey Respondent purchase minimum of $1,500
to qualify for the discount. You must apply for the offer by emailing ama@surveymonkey.com and mentioning this offer.