{"id":1865,"date":"2015-05-28T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2024-02-21T08:47:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:47:45","slug":"make-the-most-of-online-surveys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/make-the-most-of-online-surveys\/","title":{"rendered":"Make The Most Of Your Online Surveys: Share Em&#8217; Properly!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveys are great.<\/p>\n<p>But knowing how to ease people into filling them out is also  a significant, if not an oft-neglected aspect of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Because after all, what good is a survey that doesn\u2019t  feature good responses?<\/p>\n<h2>A Perennial dilemma for Surveyors  and companies<\/h2>\n<p>You want your survey to reach the right people at the right  time? You want them to fill them up without ignoring it?  You want to carry out a generally accurate  market research by way of a survey? Then its time you knew how to do it right  and accrue the maximum benefit.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of considerations to keep in mind when  sending out surveys to colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, in order to  get the best responses. Every audience requires a uniquely deft touch.<\/p>\n<p>You will be pleased to know however, that this daunting  issue does have a solution.<\/p>\n<p>It all boils down to choosing the best collection survey  option in tandem with the surveying situation that you are faced with.  Modern technology takes care of a lot of  hassles and hair-pulling that would\u2019ve otherwise ensued. Knowing who you sent  out the survey to, how to follow up, and how to make sense of all that data are  all part of the survey experience.<\/p>\n<p>Lets get started<\/p>\n<h2>The Email Option<\/h2>\n<p>You have an email list of people that you wish to send a  survey to. Therefore you want to maximize the potential of email as a way to  entice people to fill out your survey.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing about email is, that it gives you full  control over creating and monitoring your email survey campaign from the start  to the end. Most online survey creation tools also feature deep integration  with email curation and management services like MailChimp, giving you more  automated and personalization options when serving surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Integration between Mailchimp, your email lists and the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>online survey tools<\/strong><\/a> gives you the edge over your competitors. It gives you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The means to incorporate custom <a href=\"https:\/\/pagination.com\/tutorials\/data-merge-indesign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data and merge<\/a> fields  about your contacts. This is good for using customized subject line and  invitation message content. Makes the individual recipient feel good about the  undivided attention they\u2019re getting.<\/li>\n<li>Easy-to-use charts that make response rates  easily track-able.<\/li>\n<li>The data for who has responded and who hasn\u2019t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Try going for an email invitation that welcomes people to  take your survey.<\/p>\n<h2>The Targeted Audience Option<\/h2>\n<p>Survey creation tools are perfect companions to social  networks as well. They can effortlessly and efficiently leverage a host of  niche and general integration options with services such as Eventbrite, Google  Docs, Dropbox, MailChimp, Facebook, ClickTale and more.<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can use the Eventbrite integration feature  on an online survey site to get data about attendees to an event that you have  organized. These attendees contact information is automatically saved as an  email list, perfect for identifying and separating your audience by demographic  factors.<\/p>\n<p>Some of your audience might like using Dropbox to fill out  your surveys. Some might prefer Facebook to engage with your surveys. It depends  upon the audience that frequents these platforms. The more channels you target,  the more data about demographical factors you can use to improve your surveys  in the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/target-demographics-for-online-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Getting  response from a diverse demographical range<\/strong><\/a> becomes easier as your audience  grows.<\/p>\n<p>The best part? Every time someone from your audience fills  out a survey, you can be automatically notified via email of the updates. Or  you can set a preset time if you hate interruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Building exposure is not just about flooding the inboxes of  anyone and their grandparents on email or social media. It is an undertaking  where human psychology, and technological sense come together to ensure that  data complied from online surveys help you reach the right decision in your  life, work or any other pursuit that requires a strategic rethink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveys are great. But knowing how to ease people into filling them out is also a significant, if not an oft-neglected aspect of the process. Because after all, what good is a survey that doesn\u2019t feature good responses? A Perennial dilemma for Surveyors and companies You want your survey to reach the right people at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-online-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}