We run rooms where people tell us what they need. We publish what we learn.
Everything here comes from All Along’s own intake questions, answered by people as they register for an event. Each study leads with its finding, shows its sample size and dates at the top, sets out the full method and says plainly what it cannot conclude. The counts are of people, and the sample size travels with every one of them.
The studies
Every room was short on growth and long on personal effectiveness.
Across four rooms, growth and partnerships were in deficit every time and personal effectiveness was in surplus every time.
· Four rooms, February to August 2026
Nine of the ten things people raise most often are not on the form.
Of the ten themes people wrote about most often, nine had no matching option among the forty topics the form offered them.
· around 660 responses across 17 rooms, February to August 2026
Six or seven people in ten answer us. The median business-to-business survey gets 8.18%.
Between 60 and 70% of a room completes our intake questions, against a median of 8.18% for a business-to-business survey.
· around 660 responses across 17 rooms, February to August 2026
How we gather this
Two questions sit inside the registration form for an event: what would you like help with, and what could you help someone else with. Each offers a list of suggested topics and an open box underneath. Answering is optional and takes a couple of minutes.
The answers are used to introduce people to each other before the event, which is why people answer them. Around 660 people did so across 17 rooms between February and August 2026, and between 60 and 70% of any given room completes the questions.
Everyone in this data chose to attend an event and then chose to answer, so the group narrows twice before we count anything. That is a real limit and every study says so in its own words. We publish counts of people rather than mentions, raw counts rather than percentages wherever rooms differ in size, and a list of what each study cannot show.
Studies are corrected in place rather than quietly redrafted. If a number here changes, the study will say what changed and when.
Sources used across these studies
External figures are linked where they appear. Our own counts come from the rooms described above and carry their sample size on the page.
- Survicate, 2025. Survey response rate benchmarks. survicate.com/reports/survey-response-rate-benchmarks/
- Pew Research Center, 2026 (via SurveyMonkey). Survey response rate benchmarks. www.surveymonkey.com/learn/survey-best-practices/survey-response-rate-benchmarks/