Let Us Pick Your Brain for a Chance at $250
Let Us Pick Your Brain for a Chance at $250
Posted 08/11/2008 at 11:30am
| by Norman Chan
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Hello, Maximumpc.com readers. Since we relaunched the site a little over a month ago, you've had the chance to hear a lot from us in our myriad web posts. We think it's time for us to get to know you a little better, and at the same time, give out some sweet prizes. We want your input so we can make the site better, and we just happen to have a few Newegg gift certificates sitting in the lab. All you need to do for a chance to claim one is fill out our simple 15-question survey. It'll just take 5 minutes, and the questions are all multiple choice! Just click here for the survey.
Official rules for the contest can be found here.
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jwalch.hawk
August 11, 2008 at 10:47pm
Another nit-pick on the survey: #10 only let you pick one or the other (or neither) but not both... But it seems to me that a very large number of readers on this site would have purchases a mundane thing like memory (RAM) within the last 12 months but may very well be planning on purchasing more to upgrade a different PC in the future.
Keith E. Whisman
August 11, 2008 at 5:16pm
I just assumed they meant upgraded as well or built a pc under that same question. I'm sure the survey was meant more for learning how they did on their website then for marketing purposes. If it was for marketing purposes the questions would have been far more precise. Perhaps they wanted some of the questions to help sell advertising space on the site as well. They would'nt need much more than basic numbers from basic questions that were posed in the survey.
sirphunkee
August 11, 2008 at 5:54pm
yeah I agree with all of that Keith, it was more of a "how we doin?" survey than "how many dollars is the site update gonna make us?" But at the same time, it just seemed silly to me to put that question in there and not even include an available answer that would apply to most of us here.
kinda like asking the readers of Hot Rod magazine, "How often do you buy a minivan?" and not letting them choose "never". OK, so I admit it...surveys that have questions blindly excluding possible responses from the target audience are a pet peeve of mine lol.
sirphunkee
August 11, 2008 at 4:55pm
Hey guys, whoever you had develop this survey for you certainly doesn't have a good grasp of your chief demographic; one of the questions is "How often do you buy a new PC?"...and none of the available choices were anything like "never, that's why I read this magazine in the first place, duh"
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