++ Our business approach is summarized below:
+ All projects are priced on an individual basis (unfortunately or luckily, we have no price cards).
+ We are pricing at a fixed rate (in USD or any other currency) with guaranteed completion rates and deadlines.
+ All projects can be carried out in both ways, i.e., the client programs the screener and questionnaires, or we program the screener and questionnaires (costs are always identical).
+ Our pricing includes always project management, setup, sample, recruitment, programming of the screener and main questionnaire (if applicable), fieldwork, distribution of the incentives, and data delivery (if applicable) in Excel, CSV, ASCII or SPSS (a sample data file with instructions will be delivered once the programming of the initial script is completed).
+ All programming tasks are finalized during the setup time (if applicable).
+ We will use either ‘The Survey System’ or ‘Sawtooth Software’ for programming (if applicable) – all scripts (programmings) can be tested online before ‘going live’ into the field (if applicable).
+ Our platforms ‘The Survey System’ and ‘Sawtooth Software’ automate the data collecting processes (CATI, CAPI and CAWI).
+ Once a project has been awarded, our accounting team will supply an official purchase order, an invoice (including bank details and payment instructions), and additional documentation (if needed).
+ Before the project setup starts, it is required to pay 50% of the project fee and 100% of the incentives.
+ The remaining 50% of the project fee is due net 20 days after the entire delivery of the project.
+ Starting projects without payment is prohibited by our company policy because of past bad experiences.
+ We are unfortunately not working with checks to accept payments. We accept payments (bank wires) via SWIFT (all currencies), SEPA (Euro-€), and CHAPS (GBP-£).
+ We are using checks, PayPal and other payment methodologies to send out incentives to the respondents (depending on regional-based habits and acceptances). All incentives are directly ‘passed on’ to the respondents after they pass our quality control processes (1-3 business days).
+ We are not organizing ‘point collections’ or ‘sweepstakes’ for incentivization due to quality reasons, i.e., to deliver the highest data quality.
+ Direct in-house resources (such as accounting, contracting, consultants, project management, programming, DP, supervision, sampling, and interviewing) result in very reasonable costs.
+ The CVs of our moderators (if needed for qualitative projects) are supplied after the project has been awarded (moderators need to be selected during project setup).
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