Online Market Survey:SurveyMonkey

I did a test survey for my struggling cartoon series Blog Boy

Here is Blog Boy

 

 

 

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Here are the responses from 99 people,using free survey from www.surveymonkey.com

Please note the site has fabulous features so you should visit to check for yourself. Anyways, back to analytics

So dear reader, what do you think the analytical decisions are based on the survey response. ?

 

Total Started Survey:

99

Total Completed Survey:

99  (100%)

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1. Blog Boy is a cartoon based on Bloggers. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think Blog Boy

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

A boy who blogs

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74.7%

74

A generic term

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11.1%

11

Where is blog girl?

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4.0%

4

clip_image003Other (please specify)

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10.1%

10

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

2. What is the source of cartoons for you ?

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

Blogs

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6.1%

6

Websites

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35.4%

35

Newspaper (Daily)

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53.5%

53

Newspaper (Sunday)

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37.4%

37

Newsletter

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2.0%

2

clip_image003Other (please specify)

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14.1%

14

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

3. Which cartoons have you read ?

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

Garfield and Jon

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59.6%

59

Dilbert

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87.9%

87

Calvin and Hobbes

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75.8%

75

I dont read cartoons anymore

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8.1%

8

I dont like to read cartoons

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4.0%

4

clip_image003Other (please specify)

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13.1%

13

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

4. Are you a blogger yourself ?

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

Yes

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21.2%

21

No

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75.8%

75

Define Blogger

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4.0%

4

clip_image003Other (please specify)

1

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

5. What other sources of humour do you go for ?

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

TV shows

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72.7%

72

Daily spoof news

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13.1%

13

Websites (please specify)

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28.3%

28

Actual funny news

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22.2%

22

Friends

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70.7%

70

Online chat sessions

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7.1%

7

Long market research surveys

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4.0%

4

clip_image003Other (please specify)

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10.1%

10

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

6. What are the various issues that you think a blogger faces ?

 

Response
Count

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99

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

7. You just became editor of a major syndicated cartoon called Blog Boy.What features would you like him to have.Blog Boy is hosted on http://www.iwannacrib.com

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

Great cute graphics

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35.4%

35

Clean Simple graphics

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64.6%

64

Clear words

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52.5%

52

Constant change in themes

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44.4%

44

New characters

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27.3%

27

Feedback mechanisn to allow viewers to request a custom cartoon

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29.3%

29

clip_image003Other (please specify)

12

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

8. How often do you read cartoons ?

 

Response
Percent

Response
Count

Everyday

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37.4%

37

Weekly

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35.4%

35

Monthly

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6.1%

6

Occasionally (once in two-three months)

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14.1%

14

Rarely (once in six months)

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1.0%

1

Never

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3.0%

3

clip_image003Other (please specify)

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3.0%

3

 

answered question

99

 

skipped question

0

 

6. What are the various issues that you think a blogger faces ?

Displaying 1 – 99 of 99 responses    << Prev Next >> Jump To:  Go >>
  Comment Text
1. fear of acceptance nd readership
2. lack of good options to custoize the blog page
3. i am least bothered!
4. No idea
5. no clue buddy
6. Not enough exposure
7. not enough people responding to blogs unable to post blogs on the site unable to modify / re-design the blog site – graphics etc.. when the blogger wishes to do so
8. dont know
9. creating an identity of his own
10. Dearth of topics; desire for readership
11. 1. privacy 2. relevant content 3. avoiding being an offense to someone
12. frequency of updation/ popularization/ business benefits if any/ template issues.
13. Not sure
14. A good syndication mechanism
15. NA
16. – Lack of interesting material – People who comment without actually reading or understanding the post – People who go off-topic in their comments
17. Wouldn’t know as I’ve already mentioned I’m not a blogger.
18. No clue
19. Publicity
20. scarcity of novelty and limited reach to the audience.
21. Privacy?
22. Not sure; not a blogger myself
23. na
24. I guess it becomes an exercise in itself to consistently write articles/update his blog.
25. Increasing viewership of blog: increasing number of hits on his blog.
26. Finding topics deserving to be written about, the dilemma whether to use publicity stunts, the disappointment at no or useless comments
27. Don’t know coz I don’t blog
28. no comments
29. Ideas !
30. No clue
31. None!!!
32.
33. giving an opinion without having any
34. Not aware
35. Possible issues arising from the gray areas between right to freedom of speech and breaking a law Possible discrimination for expressing personal views
36. I do not Blog so not very sure
37. various blogs
38. Never blogged, no idea!
39. not a blogger but i guess motivation to continue blogging would be high on the list
40. Creativity
41. s
42. targeting the right audience he’s looking for, posting blogs relevant to his target audience, immature and unwanted responses, time to keep blog updated
43. generate content that can interest people
44. 1. laziness (time) 2. laziness (effort) 3. laziness (easier alternative to while time on net, just by clicking mouse) 4. others’ blog (blogging the brain away off your potential readers)
45. Content!
46. Bandwidth for constant updation.
47. none – blog what u want
48. none
49. none
50. spam offline access
51. Never blogged !! I guess I’m a traditionalist !! 😦
52. lack of time
53. no idea
54. No idea!
55. Don’t know
56. regarding wht? ask a clear question if u want a good answer
57. Time and connectivity problems
58. No idea as i am not a blogger.
59. Content pressure
60. > How to ensure that everyone reads what he writes
61. privacy
62. too much free time
63. Creativity
64. 1. Blogs sites are seldom highlighted in main stream.. 2. Can be used to harm some1’s image.. 3. Anonymous content need to be screened esp. private ones… u know for a miscreant everything is within reach when it is on net.. 4. Many blogsites doesn’t allow lots of images insertion, edit the date of insertion (i generally post blog afer i write it on my diary) and transfer the same when i connnect online.. so all blogs posted on same day come to one single date).
65. Getting an audience to read his/her blogs
66. content creation, quality of content
67. none
68. I dont know
69. dont blog, no idea
70. put words to thought …..
71. Getting his blog known, running out of fresh ideas
72. Creating a larger network of repeated visitors
73. how to kill time
74. Readership. Curbing of freedom, in some cases.
75. i dont know
76. lack of readership abuse personal attacks
77. Online Stalkers!
78. privacy, writers block
79. na
80. No Idea
81. freedom to express opinions
82. i thought blogging is just a fad dying a natural death.
83. getting readers to come to the site
84. Um – dont know
85. Dunno
86. content and time
87. Don’t know
88. I dont care!
89. No clue
90. i dint know .
91. NA
92. Understanding what topics readers might find interesting to read about.
93. regular content
94. comments
95. No clue
96. public perception, building and keeping an audience, coming up with fresh ideas
97. I have no idea
98. I don’t blog enough to have thought about it.
99. Low traffic
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There seems a potential market here , but Blog Boy just gonna be a slog boy.

The Digital Divide Hypothesis

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This is a screenshot of last 1000 visitors to Decision Stats. Notice heavy concentration in US East Coast and West Coast, Latin America’s light visitors, Almost none from Africa, Some Israeli visitors from Middle East (but not many from Arab countries). Europe is visiting ,it tapers of in Eastern Europe but not most of Western Russia and China (language problems ? proxy walls ?)

It may also serve as a hypothesis for where internet is affordable enough and economies developed enough for people to surf analytics web sites. And where the digital haves and have nots stand. Either that or something wrong in Web Analytics software.

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Bonus- Blog Boy cartoons on Weekends for levity in these interesting times.

Textbooks for free

If you wanted to learn without paying thousands of rupees for expensive textbooks ,help is here. This is an initiative by Rice University called connexions and I quote "

Connexions is:

a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

  • authors create and collaborate
  • instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
  • learners find and explore content "

The textbooks are basically mashups of modules by experts around the world. Especially check out the applied statistics textbook.

I kind of liked it better than Google Knol ,but lately

Google Scholar is a good way to search for knowledge too.

The site is here at http://cnx.org/

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Did you know that you can create a regression tool in MS Excel for regression of upto 16 variables. You can automate it using record Macro feature even if you donot know Excel Macros.

SAS ETS and SPSS Trends can both make time series models. But so can MS Excel by linking up of cells. In addition you can use the solver add-in to minimize the square of the error term by changing the parameters of the exponential smoothening forecasts used.

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A great book for R graphics is here. Its especially useful for people who are new into R and or using graphical function primarily.

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/RGraphics/chapter2.html

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This is a good textbook till the new edition November 2008 release of Bob Munchien’s R for SAS and SPSS Users (http://www.springer.com/statistics/computational/book/978-0-387-09417-5 )

The existing free copy is at http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf

 

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Based on these projections , the assets are priced, packed up in SPV’s or collateralized, and options priced. Now Senior Management gets a big bonus if they sell off their balance sheet like this, and business is able to use cash generated to create higher loans….. so they lean on the analyst to Continue reading “Sub Prime Crisis: A Risk Analyst view from the Trenches”