For example, what if you want to know how much prospective customers are willing to pay for your product? You could just ask them, "How much would you be willing to pay for a product that does blah blah," and provide them a blank to fill in. You will not get reliable results.
A skilled product manager would formulate the questions differently:
1. Ask negative pricing questions. How much does it cost for the prospective customer not to use your product?
2. Ask a conjoint analysis question. If a customer has to choose among several different pricing/feature packages, which one would he choose?
Pricing is one of many examples of questions you may want answered, but that you must formulate indirectly in a survey to get meaningful results.
Another important factor to consider when drafting a survey: you can typically draw the most important conclusions not from the direct responses to each question in the survey, but from uncovering correlations between the responses to different questions.
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So, how does one determine what question belongs in a survey and one that doesn't and how does one determine the "negative price" of a service?
Good (and nontrivial) questions, Sandra. I'm tackling them in new entries to the blog.
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