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Thank you guys so much for taking the survey — the giveaway is now closed, but if you want to weigh in you can still take the survey. (I'm always grateful for feedback!)
I used Random.org to determine who won the giftcards — the first winner was #9, but that survey taker had not left her email address. The next random number generated was 1572, and the next random number generated was 436 — both of those survey takers have been contacted.
Results didn't change much from the interim survey results. Final numbers were:
- Age: 33% of you are 28-32, with 26% of you being 33-37.
- Relationships: 60% of you are married, 18% in a relationship, and 18% single.
- Kiddos: 44% of you don’t have any children yet, and 20% don’t plan to have any.
- Salary: 45% of you make at least 6 figures.
- Degrees: 43% of you have JDs, and 9% of you have MBAs.
- Career: 40% of you say you’ve been working 3-8 years in the same career.
- Office environment: 58% of you said you worked in a “business casual” environment (defined in the survey as “for men, no tie but a tucked button-front shirt and khakis; women may wear blazers but usually as separates”), with 31% saying “business conservative” (defined in the survey as “men may wear a tie but keep their suit jacket in their office; women may or may not wear full suits often”) and 20% saying “California business” (defined in the survey as “people may wear blazers with jeans”).
- 48% of you have your own office, while 28% work in a cubicle or other shared office space.
- Size-wise: 47% of you identified as a size M, 40% as small, and 29% as large. (Multiple choices were allowed on this Q and a few others so the percentages may be a bit screwy.)
- Thoughts on Kat’s style: 74% of you liked my choices “sometimes,” with the chief complaint (35%) being that choices were too expensive.
- Visiting the blog: The majority of readers visit Corporette once a day (35%), 30% visit a few times a week, and 21% visit multiple times a day.
- Blog comments: 36% of readers said they read the comments either “always” or “usually,” while 30% of readers said they read comments sometimes, and 26% said only if they were very interested in the subject matter of the main post.
- Current blog content: In general most people thought the mix of current blog content was just right. 33% thought more beauty advice was needed, 37% thought more career/job advice would be good, and 35% wanted more financial advice.
- The most loved features were the Hunt (67% loved it), Weekly News Roundups (50% loved it), Tales from the Wallet (49% loved it).
- I also asked for readers’ thoughts on a certain commenter in particular (rhymes with Shmellen): 38% had no opinion, 23% hated, 23% thought “it’s fine”, and 15% “loved” it. (I’m kinda surprised by these answers!)
- Expanding blog content: We had a lot of ideas for ways to expand the content that we swung by you guys — the most popular was “interviews with regular working women” (61%), while roughly 48% of people also liked the ideas for more posts from Kate, short interviews with Big Name businesswomen, or guest “house” bloggers for fashion or jobs.
- 79% of people answering the survey had commented on Corporette 10 times or less, but 30% of people said they came primarily for the comments section.
- Future Corporette projects (in addition to/outside of the blog): The biggest hits among our many ideas for outside projects were meetups, a podcast, a “Corporette Seal of Approval,” ebooks, a paper Career Planner, and job listings.
Stay tuned while we explore these new avenues — and thank you guys again for your feedback! For some reason one of the projects I’ve started first was a paper Career Planner — I’m hoping to have a beta form available for download at least by the end of the summer. If you’d like to sign up to be notified of the planner when it comes out (and likely be offered a big discount on whatever initial price we attach to it), please sign up here.
Pictured: balloons, originally uploaded to Flickr by Ilario Prospero.
S in Chicago
I love reader surveys. Just one thing to think about next time: To get more accurate and representative results would advise not releasing some findings while still actively surveying.
Wildkitten
Totally this.
Cat
Yep. Whether you think “oh I’d vote the same way, so no need to take the survey” or “my vote won’t matter because the results are already so heavily in favor of X outcome”…
I asked this before, but I’m really curious why K@t was surprised by the Shmellen outcome. Did fewer people think it was funny/cute than she thought? The large percentage of dislike/meh isn’t surprising to me…
Shopping
I also wonder what she was expecting. I didn’t really know how to answer that one, because I find her responses amusing when they are 3-4 lines, and she occasionally has a nice sentiment in there. But the ones that go on and on for many paragraphs–ugh! When I’m sick of it I scroll down to the next comment, never feel a twinge at not finishing
E
I thought it was surprising how many people apparently like Shmellen comments. I’m surprised that anyone does.
Sydney Bristow
I’m glad that 20% of people don’t plan to have children. I usually feel like a much bigger outlier.
anon
I don’t plan to have children. I don’t share that with people IRL because of some really awful judgment I’ve got from people. I think it’s more common than it seems, and that ambivalence about having children is more common still.
Anon
Would love to see some visuals on this.
Also it is extremely useful for you (as well as avertisers) to see the full spectrum of results.
Age demographics that hit on only 59% of your readership do not really paint a good story.
Age: 33% of you are 28-32, with 26% of you being 33-37.
The mind thinks where is the 40%?
AttiredAttorney
These survey results would be great to see in some pie charts!
Ellen
Yay! Great Survey, Kat, and I second the OP and would love pie chart’s, but even more-so, how about some Apple Pie A La Mode? With Haggen Dazz Ice Cream, I would NOT even mind gaining a few holiday pound’s! YAY!!!!!!
I wish I were NOT in the minority, as to being MARRIED. I want to be MARRIED THIS YEAR! FOOEY on men for NOT wanting to marry me. DOUBEL FOOEY b/c I am actively lookeing!
Kk
Next time, I’d also add the category of people who work from home.
Anonymous
What would this career planner include? I’m just not sure what it is!
Shopping
I’m looking forward to the seal of approval, as I’m often unsure about some piece of my wardrobe.
In the demographics, I really see why there is a separate site for moms. In future polls, I think she should ask not just who is/wants to be a parent, but also who is a single parent. As S Sandberg recently discovered, it is a different ballgame. Even more so for those of us who can’t hire an army of staffers.
People who wish to remain childless, speak up! If LGBT people can do it, and eventually get their rights that way, you can get more respect just by letting people know you are there, you are real, and there are many of you! There are certainly many advantages to not having kids. (No, I don’t hate mine, am just realistic about what he means for me professionally)
Anonymous
Ellen,
I think you’re great and I always enjoy your comments. I hope you find your guy this year and have a wonderful wedding.
Chris