Making Data Collection Work for You
Companies work based on data that is gathered carefully, analyzed thoroughly and calculated sensibly. Each plan laid down by companies is properly evaluated for opportunities and risks. The daily operations of most businesses revolve around accurate and reliable information, which is why we at CrowdForce are striving to ensure that businesses in emerging markets have access to fast and reliable data.
Use of Various Data Collection Tools
Every data collection method has its own pros and cons. Online surveys are one of the best modern tools for collecting data and can save you a lot of time and money. You can design and customize surveys easily for your data collection requirements, manage contacts, respondents and responses, ensure a qualitative and quantitative breakdown and more. Data collection can also be implemented in other ways such as handwritten surveys, focus groups and phone interviews.
Offer incentives
When you are trying to get participants for your surveys and groups, you need to get sufficient responses for ensuring data integrity. It is important to offer the right incentives to the respondents of your surveys, to make them interested enough to participate. You can incentivize by using various attractive coupons, discounts, free publications, gift cards, or cash.
Set strict timelines
Put strict timelines in place, in order to ensure a successful data collection cycle. It is important to plot every task, and every resource associated to the task, for a proper survey. This can help you ensure that there is enough time for data gathering, carrying out proper quality assurance and data integrity testing at the end. Keep in mind that data collection surveys are big tasks and include many components. Whether it comes to management of the smallest activities — such as arranging meetings / conference calls or more intricate tasks like data analysis and compilation, you have to document every step properly to be able to identify resources and responsibilities clearly.
