====== Creating the survey ====== ===== Who are our customers? ===== i.e. who are the potential advertisers * Recruitment agencies * Companies recruiting direct * Publishers * Tool vendors * Platform vendors * Events organisers ===== What questions should we ask? ===== - Job title / Role - Experience in IT - Age (brackets) - Qualifications: None, High School, Computing Degree, Non-Computing degree, Higher - Purchasing authority - Contractor / Permanent / Consultant - Time since last job change - Primary language used - Secondary language used - Language favoured - Primary Operating system - Tools Used - IDE/Editor used - Location - Domain of work - Number of books purchased in the last year - Number of (paid for) industry events attended in last year - Are you an current ACCU member? (if going to ACCU general) and then Are you a lapsed ACCU member? ===== What should we use to do the survey? ===== Lets assume we are going to use an online service. * SurveyMonkey.com - $20 per month, 1000 responses per month. We use this at Actix, its OK but doesn't have advanced features, I think we can pay for a monthly account, download the responses and cancel. We can get a free membership, put up our survey, do a couple of tests (e.g. ACCU committee), refine it then do it for real.