Email Marketing RulesSurveys, Polls, Forms, & Progressive Profiling: Writing Questions that Deliver Valuable Insights
With the end of third-party cookies, brands are increasingly focusing on collecting more zero-party data directly from their customers and prospects so they can better understand their needs and wants. While larger surveys will play a role, most brands will gain insights a few answers at a time through signup forms, profile pages, polls, and other forms of progressive profiling.
It sounds simple, but writing a good question and collecting reliable answers is harder than it seems. Indeed, things can go wrong:
- Before you write a question
- When writing the question
- When writing answer choices
- Around the timing
- When analyzing the responses
- When repeating data collection
Let’s talk about best practices and things to look out for during each of those steps.
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Chad S. White
Head of Research
Oracle Digital Experience Agency
Author of Email Marketing Rules and nearly 4,000 articles about digital and email marketing
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