who has tried donations for incentives?

Posted by Julie Wallman on May 15, 2000 at 08:55:41:

I am curious who out there has tried to use charitable donations as respondent incentives for business-to-business respondents (particularly high tech professionals, but I suppose that's a long shot...)

My firm has historically offered either cash incentives or, for smaller quant surveys, an entry into a drawing for cash or palm pilot-type giveaways. Our respondents are always business professionals, not consumers, and most of the time they are high tech professionals like IT Managers.

My manager is interested in registering respondents for a drawing to "win" a charitable donation, in the respondent's name, to the organization of his/her choice.

Anyone ever tried this? Did it change response rates? Biased sample? What do you think?

Follow Ups:

• Re: who has tried donations for incentives? Greg Rennier 13:25:44 5/18/2000 (0)
• Re: who has tried donations for incentives? MICHELLE FROM NEW YORK CITY 21:24:24 5/15/2000 (2)
  • Re: who has tried donations for incentives? Diane Wright 02:22:28 5/21/2000 (0)
  • Re: who has tried donations for incentives? Scott W. Spain 00:23:49 5/17/2000 (0)
• Re: who has tried donations for incentives? Sherman Whipple 10:48:25 5/15/2000 (0)

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