Telephone Interviews

 

Telephone interviews, like in-person interviews, are conducted by appointment. 

 

Benefits of using telephone interviews include:

 

  • People from different cities, states and countries can be interviewed without incurring travel costs.

 

  • The interviewer can ask additional, probing questions to clarify responses.

 

  • It is convenient for the respondent.

 

  • Telephone interviews often allow faster turnaround of data and reporting than in-person appointments can provide, particularly when the persons interviewed are from a wide geographic area.

 

 

Examples of how clients have utilized telephone interviewing by Lane Gewecke Consulting:

 

  • Information gathering for a museum’s strategic planning effort from people located both within and outside the United States.

 

  • Nationwide first-stage interviewing for a private foundation seeking potential partners for a project.

 

  • Evaluation of reactions to a mailed prospectus by a nonprofit organization contemplating a capital campaign.