Monday, May 6, 2002

Research Data Design Announces New Online Survey Capabilities

Research Data Design Announces New Online Survey Capabilities

(PRWEB) May 22, 2002

Portland, OR – Research Data Design, Inc. (RDD), a leading market research company specializing in telephone data collection, today announced its online survey capabilities with an offering called RDD Online. RDD Online allows market research companies, advertising agencies, and corporations to conduct surveys on a wide variety of Internet users, including automotive buyers, chronic sufferers, and several lifestyle groups.

Through a new partnership with Greenfield Online, RDD has access to multiple sample sources, including Greenfield OnlineÂ’s panel of 1.2 million households and Greenfield OnlineÂ’s premier sampling relationship with the Microsoft Network. Each panel member participates voluntarily and completes more than 70 fields of demographic information. MSN visitors are invited to participate in online surveys via integrated links across all MSN channels, and are screened at the time of survey execution.

“We’ve received several requests from clients regarding online surveys,” said John Stepleton, President, RDD. “Coupled with our telephone data collection, we can provide information from multiple sources, giving our clients greater flexibility.”

As part of its growth plan for 2002, RDD Online is the first of several new products that will be offered. “To become the number one provider of business information in the world, we need to have a robust product offering,” said Stepleton. “RDD Online is the first step in attaining that goal.”

About RDD

Headquartered in Portland, OR, RDD delivers data collection services for business, consumer, and multilingual studies to clients in a variety of industry segments, including high tech, food and beverage, finance, insurance, automotive, healthcare, utilities, media, and entertainment. Founded in 1994, the company has averaged a 217% growth rate per year, which has earned it a space on Inc. MagazineÂ’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies list three years running. RDD currently staffs more than 400 highly trained individuals, including interviewers, site and field managers, validators, data processing specialists, and project managers. RDD owns and operates call centers in Las Cruces, NM; Eugene, OR; and Missoula, MT.

About Greenfield Online

Greenfield Online, Inc., has pioneered the concept of conducting marketing research via the Internet and has developed unsurpassed sampling capabilities, including one of the largest and most robust online research panels, as well as the ability to recruit from the Microsoft Network, which receives more than 65 million unique monthly visitors. Greenfield Online combines these sampling capabilities with vast research experience and world-class tools and technologies to serve the data collection and infrastructure needs of research and consulting companies.

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