I'm going to send it to the economic developer (or County manger of small counties) of every county in NC.

How long should it be to get a good response rate (yet still give me adequate information)?

I'm thinking just a paragraph or two of information, then 10-12 yes/no or 1-5 scale questions.

1/6/2009 12:49:49 PM

you better compensate them somehow or you wont get anything

1/6/2009 12:53:01 PM

There are 100 of them

I'm a grad student

About the best I could do is send them a tootsie pop and say thanks.

1/6/2009 12:54:57 PM

get a bag of tootsie pops then

1/6/2009 12:55:27 PM

get on your knees and start blowin

1/6/2009 12:56:19 PM

^ wouldn't work

I couldn't afford the travel.

1/6/2009 12:58:23 PM

or the TMJ that would come later

1/6/2009 1:07:19 PM

I would expect a shitty response rate and a long turn around. These people will/should have better things to do.

1/6/2009 1:25:55 PM

Eh, people do surveys like this all the time for capstone classes, the response rate is never that bad. And many economic developers or managers probably sent out a survey or two like this when they were in college.

I'm not expecting massive response, but there are a few alternate targets in each county if one doesn't pull through.

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 1:31 PM. Reason : ]

1/6/2009 1:30:22 PM