Thank you, everyone, for replying to this discussion! There are a lot of great ideas provided and we really appreciate them. Unfortunately, due to restrictions, we are unable to provide incentives to our presenters. Though it sounds like most of you have had success with that.
We currently send out the survey on the last day of the event to try to catch them before their next project. As we use some of the same presenters on a regular basis we try to only survey 3 a month. A very small number. We have about 15 events a month, but the same presenters may be used for multiple events during that timeframe. So we don't want to burn them out with surveys for each event.
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Jessica Boss
Training and Support Team Lead
Fedstar
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-01-2019 13:29
From: Jessica Boss
Subject: Survey Response Ratings
Our company has noticed a decrease in our Survey response rates for our presenters/instructors that we use multiple times a year. We try to only survey individuals once a quarter, every three months, but still, are not seeing the response rates we would like.
We survey our presenters/instructors with customer service based questions to see where our teams, who coordinate events, can improve the point of contact between our team and the presenter/instructor. We've had our questions for some years and those who do respond seem to 'Christmas Tree' down the ratings giving us high ratings but little to no valuable feedback for improvement. Our Metrics are great but don't provide us with how we can improve.
We're reaching out to the CVENT Community to see if there was/is anyone in our shoes. We'd like to know what you did to turn-around your response rates.
- Did you change your questions up? Ask more open-ended questions to obtain more valuable information?
- Did it seem like individuals were reluctant to complete the survey when comments are required for each question?
- Did you send out more reminders to complete the survey? (Our team currently sends one email to invite them to participate and another as a reminder to complete.)
- Did you change the design of your survey or emails to be more appealing?
- Did you provide a statement in emails that underscore the importance of completing the survey?
Any feedback or advice would be welcome. Thank you all for taking the time to read and respond to our discussion.
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Jessica Boss
Training and Support Team Lead
Fedstar
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