Past Surveys: 2006
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Why Surveys?
You may as well ask, why are perceptions important? The need to find out what music fans are thinking has never been greater than it is today. This applies not only to the world of guitars and music. It is just as true in other areas of business and research.
Knowing what the visitors to our site think helps us maintain a powerful competitive edge. It helps us strengthen our performance, implement necessary changes to the site, acquire new products, and protects our future.
If we know what our visitors are thinking, it will allow us to focus our products and services to meet their needs, assiting us as we grow the business and build customer loyalty - not to mention awakening the sales potential in all those fans of music (and the guitar in particular) that are not already our customers.
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Guitar Nine Records Surveys: Historical Results
Here are the results of the surveys we conducted on the Guitar Nine Records site in 2006.
February, 2006 Survey Results
What is the one thing that virtually guarantees you will like an instrumental album?
| Compositionally creative | 34.5% |
| Incredible solos | 22.0% |
| Talented musicians on every instrument | 21.5% |
| Absolutely no vocal tracks | 9.6% |
| Unique arrangements | 7.9% |
| Dynamic mix of styles | 4.0% |
| Stellar production/mix | 0.6% |
April, 2006 Survey Results
Which of our regular features are you sure to check out every two months?
| Guitar technique columns | 39.4% |
| Undiscovered artists | 18.2% |
| Songwriting/composition columns | 9.1% |
| Live performance columns | 7.6% |
| Artist biographies | 6.1% |
| Interviews | 6.1% |
| Inspiration/motivation columns | 4.5% |
| Recording columns | 4.5% |
| Survey/survey results | 3.0% |
| Music business columns | 1.5% |
June, 2006 Survey Results
What was the first year you remember visiting the Guitar Nine Records site?
| 2006 | 37.2% |
| 2005 | 12.8% |
| 2000 | 11.5% |
| 2003 | 10.3% |
| 2004 | 6.4% |
| 2002 | 6.4% |
| 1999 | 5.1% |
| 2001 | 3.8% |
| 1996 | 2.6% |
| 1998 | 2.6% |
| 1997 | 1.3% |
August, 2006 Survey Results
Which would be worth more on eBay in 10 years, a CD album, or an album of downloaded mp3s?
| CD album | 84.8% |
| Downloaded album | 15.2% |
October, 2006 Survey Results
Who would you most love to see host a series of instructional guitar DVDs?
| Steve Vai | 37.5% |
| Joe Satriani | 23.2% |
| Jeff Beck | 12.5% |
| Carlos Santana | 8.0% |
| Jennifer Batten | 6.2% |
| Jimmy Page | 5.4% |
| Eric Clapton | 4.5% |
| Ace Frehley | 2.7% |
December, 2006 Survey Results
If you could only play just one guitar brand, which would it be?
| Ibanez | 24.1% |
| Fender | 21.8% |
| Gibson | 17.6% |
| Paul Reed Smith | 7.4% |
| Music Man | 4.6% |
| ESP | 4.2% |
| Jackson | 3.2% |
| Parker | 2.8% |
| Taylor | 2.3% |
| Carvin | 2.3% |
| Line 6 | 1.9% |
| Martin | 1.9% |
| Ovation | 1.4% |
| Brian Moore | 1.4% |
| Gretsch | 0.9% |
| Epiphone | 0.9% |
| Valley Arts | 0.9% |
| RainSong | 0.5% |
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