How many of your voice IVR surveys have been left uncompleted because the call got disconnected accidentally? Don’t you wish you could have just called right back and continued where the survey left off? We’ve got you covered. Make way for...
Should you collect data from hard-to-reach populations using Voice (IVR) or SMS? If you’re not sure, you’re not alone: Unilever recently faced the same question in Indonesia. After sending around 26,000 SMS and IVR messages and questions to about 4,000...
At engageSPARK we are constantly looking for ways to serve you, our customers, better—all the while building a sustainable business. One of the bigger decisions we made early on was to go with a pure pay-as-you-go model. That was in 2014, and the SaaS world has been...
Text can’t replace the human voice. Not really. That’s one of the lessons a lot of people have had to learn the past six months while working from home. This is true for office work—but it’s also true for NGO surveys and any kind of social intervention. Two ways to...
Recently, a program manager reached out to us about surveying members of a rather remote community. Usually, such a survey would mean she or one of her colleagues would ride a boat for several hours—one way—followed by the giving of gifts and finally the survey. This...
This is an exciting time for communicating with beneficiaries around the world. As more and more messaging apps are ready for integration we can reach more people and in better ways. Surveys in particular benefit from this: you can make surveys more powerful, cheaper...
Uncompleted surveys are a huge waste of money and the better your completion rate is the cheaper your project is going to be. The key is to manage the attention of survey participants, and it’s not as hard as it sounds. In this blog post I want to share a few insights...
In the last 8 years, engageSPARK has worked with hundreds, if not thousands, of organizations in their IVR (interactive voice response) campaigns, and we’ve seen a lot of benefits to using this mode. Some advantages include (1) driving more urgency for a...
Data is of utmost importance in facilitating sound decision-making and resource allocation, especially during a time of crisis such as COVID-19. But with social distancing measures, researchers are finding it hard to collect data in areas where internet and...
We just made SMS and IVR Surveys easier and more powerful with these two new features: You now may update contact attributes (custom fields[1]) based on your contacts’ responses to SMS questions and IVR questions. You are able to set conditions in SMS surveys...
