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Why People Use Fake Doctor’s Notes (and Why It’s Risky)

People use fake doctor’s notes to excuse absences from school or work. They can use it to cover up for unapproved time off or to extend work deadlines. The major reason this happens so often is that it’s so easy to find fake doctor’s note templates online; you can even generate them in seconds with…
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What a Perceptual Map Reveals That Surveys Alone Can’t

Businesses often rely on surveys to understand how customers see their brands however numbers alone don’t always tell the full story this is where visual tools come into play. One of the most powerful visual tools is called the perceptual map. It is a simple but insightful way to see what your customers think at…
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Why Online Forms Fail GDPR & Privacy Compliance (And How to Fix Yours)

Did you know that a simple mistake in your online forms could cost you hefty GDP fines? Online forms are part of modern business operations, from capturing leads to processing others or collecting customer feedback. However, if these forms do not comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, businesses risk massive fines, legal troubles, and…
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What to Do If Your Offline Form Data Gets Corrupted or Lost

Offline forms help you collect the data you need to register new users, understand customer satisfaction, process orders, etc., in low-connectivity areas. However, offline forms are not without their flaws, they come with a major vulnerability: the risk of data corruption or loss due to device failures, sync errors, or accidental deletions. Losing data is…
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How to Embed a Form Without Slowing Down Your Website.

The painful truth is that it really doesn’t matter how hard you worked on your paid ads, SEO, marketing campaign, and sales strategy if your forms don’t load FAST. Heavy forms with oversized images and clunky code will slow your site to a crawl, and people will get frustrated and drop off. The most common…
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How to Interpret Polling Results Like a Pro

Remember how most polls predicted Hillary Clinton would win the presidential elections in 2016, or how over 200,000 people supposedly preferred Coca-Cola’s “New Coke” to the original. Both cases proved disastrous because the polls failed to capture true public sentiment, leading to gross disappointment and huge losses. Polls help you understand what people think about…
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What Industries Benefit the Most from Offline Forms?

From customer feedback to surveys, to inventory forms online forms allow you to collect all the information you need to achieve your business growth. But what happens when your respondents have a bad internet connection or no connection at all? Digital forms are way easier to navigate than offline data collection methods but not all…
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What Are Push Polls and Why Are They Controversial?

How do you persuade others to adopt your viewpoint? Throughout history, people have swayed friends, families, and even armies to champion causes. One tool for this is push polling—a tactic masquerading as research. Push polls, unlike traditional polls, don’t collect unbiased opinions, their actual goal is to persuade people to adopt a specific belief. Some…
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How to Reduce Errors in Offline Data Collection

The accepted error rate in manual data entry is 1% because we are people and we make mistakes. However, in most offline data collection processes, the error rate is higher. The main problem with errors in data collection is that they don’t just slow you down, they can result in huge losses worth millions of…
