Manufacturer, Retailer, and Consumer Feedback - Product Development Opportunity for Bikers!

Hello everyone! I have an opportunity for bikers to shape a product that all bikers use. I'm a university student working with a sports drink company and we are designing a new (and all natural) sports drink. Its only 9 questions and shouldn't take you more than 5 minutes (really!)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=g4vN3hXAKGHzA2H4EdP3Nw_3d_3d

Yes, I am an actual university student AND this is NOT SPAM.

Please let me know if the link does not work or have questions.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

Hello everyone! I have an opportunity for bikers to shape a product that all bikers use. I'm a university student working with a sports drink company and we are designing a new (and all natural) sports drink.

What makes you think all bikers use sports drinks? I don't.

I have all natural sports drink on tap at my house!

FWIW, i found that the 1=most important to be the reverse of most surveys i've done... you almost got a complete 180º survey from me!

:-(

FWIW, i found that the 1=most important to be the reverse of most surveys i've done..

It was?? Ha! I missed that completely. I gave 5s to most important criteria.

Oh well, not my survey. :eek:

Poster #1: Congrats that you dont use sports drinks. You save more money and you dont have to take the survey. As for me, I exert a lot when I exercise and can use the replenishment.

Poster #3: I had a LONG discussion with my fellow students about that one. I thought the same, 5 should be the highest. Long story short, most people I asked rank 1 as highest. I know, weird. Glad you caught it though.

;D

I have all natural sports drink on tap at my house!

Too bad they don't plumb beer as well...

I think you might have the URL wrong, because that just takes me to a start page for the website.

FWIW, i found that the 1=most important to be the reverse of most surveys i've done... you almost got a complete 180º survey from me!

:-(


Idid the same thing. The selection is backwards.

I did it, I like performance drinks, but ironically you focus on recycling. I think a winning direction is reusability. Like gatorade powder. With no options to counter point the premise of your survey, I feel my opinion is half assed.

Poster #1: Congrats that you dont use sports drinks. You save more money and you dont have to take the survey. As for me, I exert a lot when I exercise and can use the replenishment.

Poster #3: I had a LONG discussion with my fellow students about that one. I thought the same, 5 should be the highest. Long story short, most people I asked rank 1 as highest. I know, weird. Glad you caught it though.

;D

Your class obviously doesn't work with a lot of surveying companies. Yours is backwards to everyone I have seen and/or made. At the very least, invert the counter to go 5,4,3,2,1. The right hand most select should always represent the highest.

I thought the same, 5 should be the highest. Long story short, most people I asked rank 1 as highest. I know, weird.

Sounds like a group of kids who've never taken surveys before.

I think energy drinks try to do to much and end up being too thick to be used as a good drink while exercising. Thats why i always use water while i'm riding. I use keep gels and clif bars with when i need a boost. If an energy drink didn't concentrate on replacing everything that is lost, and say only tried to slow to rate of nutrition lost, I'd use it. Until then I'm sticking to water.

oh and as a product tester for the makers of Gore-Tex, the highest option should be on the right and be a 5 or 10 . Kind of like a 5 star hotel, or a movie get a score of 5 out of 5.

- this is the second attempt at the survey?

- i hope you renumbered your respondent prefs - before you had 1== most important, 5== least important... which was totally confusing...

- since i already answered your earlier survey, i'll take a pass on this one...

- btw, you should have mentioned that this is the SECOND attempt here and a SUBSEQUENT post on the same topic with the SAME content...

- otherwise, this IS SPAM...

(other than that, i hope you get the info you're looking for)

I did it, I like performance drinks, but ironically you focus on recycling. I think a winning direction is reusability. Like gatorade powder. With no options to counter point the premise of your survey, I feel my opinion is half assed.

+1 I use Powerade mix b/c it is cheap, and I can mix what I need and the rest doesn't take up much space. Plus, I can just use my regular bike bottles (way less waste). I can make 2 gallons/32 servings (more or less to taste) with one $4 package of Powerade mix. I'd use something more natural if it wasn't too much more. Anyone know of any?

Can you list the ingredients of this "all natural" sports drink?

There should be a single thread for this now. If there are any more, it's spam, which will not be tolerated.

To all posters, thanks for your comments. Except Colombo357. Your comment was rude, unnecessary and useless. I’m glad to see forums on all subjects have one thing in common: they have some guy who doesn’t know how to use tact.

And by the way: THE QUESTION CLEARLY STATES: (1 really important - 5 not important)

Here’s an example (taken straight from the survey):

2. How important are these features?
(1 really important - 5 not important)</SPAN>

Its not that we’re a bunch of kids who have never taken a survey before, it’s that some people DON’T KNOW HOW to take a survey.

To all other posts:

Some comments provided great feedback (especially by Jive Monkey and enjoi). Thanks, we’ll use’em

The ingredients are a mix of aca’ai berries and coconut milk.

Brian, There sould be only one thread. I'm not in this for spam. Cool looking dog by the way.

I took your survey and as someone who has been in the product development business for over 15 years, I can say that undoubtedly was one of the worst surveys I have ever seen/took, and I have written or participated in hundreds.

First, don't ever insult the respondent, it is completely unprofessional.

Second, don't you have a professor to review the material before you post it? Hopefully he/she has some idea how to write a survey. If they did review that and gave it an OK, I would look to have their tenure revoked.

Everyone is right, 1 should be least (not "not") important, 5 should be most (not "really") important. You should also define #3 as "neither important or unimportant". There is a proper way to write a survey to avoid the confusion which you blame the respondent.

When soliciting opinions about PET, TETRA PAK and LOHAS, you should define them to the respondent. I understand you gave an out in one of the questions but we were required to answer two other questions about them. I would say any data from those 3 questions is pretty much worthless.

I will give you that there were very few open-ended questions which is good and often a rookie mistake. But if I were you, don't add this to your portfolio when applying for a job, I know I wouldn't hire you because of it.