Thursday, June 9, 2011

Create Smart Professional Surveys With SurveyMonkey


The screen capture above shows how easy is it to create professional surveys online. There are many online survey tools available which can help you build a basic survey form and host it, SurveyMonkey takes it to the next level.

SurveyMonkey is an online service which lets users create their own online surveys and take them to the intended target audience to generate and analyze results. It dramatically reduces the overhead costs of doing surveys otherwise.

How does it work?
To use Survey Monkey for free, you should sign up for the basic plan, by clicking on "Sign Up FREE" as shown in the screen capture below:


Once you are done creating your account, which is a very easy and quick process, you will be re-directed to the following screen, as shown in the screen capture below:


All you need to do to create your first survey and roll it out is follow the 3 steps, as shown in the screen capture above.

Once you hit "Create Survey" you will be re-directed to the following screen, as shown in the screen capture below:

To choose a theme for your survey, simply click on the theme options in the dropdown above and start adding questions to your survey as shown in the screen capture below:


There are various forms and types of Q&A and the same can be chosen through the screen which appears once you select to add a question.


Once you add a question to the page, it will start appearing like it will in the final survey on your current survey building screen, as shown in the capture below:

Once you are done designing the survey, you can also "collect responses" by the various methods which Survey Monkey allows, as:
  • Create a link to send in your own email message or to place on a webpage: The simplest and fastest way to collect responses. A link for your survey is generated that you can just copy and paste.
  • Upload your own emails and have SurveyMonkey send a survey invitation: You can upload your emails, and SurveyMonkey will send a survey invitation on your behalf. You can customize the message that is sent, and track who responds in your list.
  • Add the survey to your website: Embed your survey on your website or display your survey in a popup window.
  • Share your survey on Facebook: Easily distribute your survey to your friends and colleagues on Facebook.

Based upon the responses that your survey gets you can also "Analyze Your Results".

SurveyMonkey hence allows you to create surveys and analyze the results for free.

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

1 comment:

  1. Survey monkey and Survey methods- 2 very easy tools for holding online surveys! Makes research work very easy! thanks for sharing the post

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