Editing your survey

Posted in: Blog by alex on February 28, 2010

As you know, FluidSurveys has recently updated its software. As a result, editing your survey is now easier than ever! You can rearrange, add, delete, modify, and even copy/paste questions within the same survey or across different surveys:

While you edit your survey, you can see a real-time preview of your survey on your right side. If you’re not completely satisfied with the order of the questions, it’s very easy to re-order them quickly:

There are small minus buttons throughout the editor that allow you to delete unwanted items with the click of a button!

If you decide to re-word an individual question, you can just click on it and then modify it in the “question options” tab that becomes active on your right side.

Finally, “copying/pasting” your survey or “duplicating” your survey is also very easily done. This is especially important if you are creating a brand new survey that is just slightly different from your old one:

Ultimately, these features for editing and reorganizing your surveys will help you save a considerable amount of time and help you to develop an effective survey.

Making Your Opinion Count – Guest Post

Posted in: Blog by admin on February 6, 2010

Making Your Opinion Count

Submitted by Paul DesBarres, President of Nova Insights Market Research & Consulting in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

When many people think of market research, they think “polling” and about those supper-time telephone calls. However, it is much more than that. Yes, it includes polling, and it can include telephone calls at supper-time. However, many do not distinguish between market research and telemarketing, but they are very different. Telemarketing is sales, and that’s the only goal of the person speaking to you on the phone. Market research interviewers are after nothing more than your opinion. Your telephone number was likely randomly generated to be a representative of the general population or some segment within the population. You get to provide your opinion to influence businesses and other organizations in their decision-making. I am “in the business,” so I may be a bit biased, but I’ve always viewed this as a privilege to have my opinion count toward helping an organization better serve the market.

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FluidSurveys Affiliate Marketing Program

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Many of our loyal customers have been referring their friends and colleagues to our site since our very beginning and we appreciate this greatly. You Rock!

In order to help facilitate the referral process and even give you some form of a reward in referring new FluidSurveys users, we’ve teamed up with ShareASale so that we can offer an easy way for affiliates to work with us. For more information, please visit the FluidSurveys Affiliate Page.

Tips and Techniques for Creating your Survey #2

Posted in: Blog by alex on February 4, 2010

Here is part II of our post on design tips that’ll be useful to you during your survey creation

#6 Keep your overall survey short and to the point

Long story short-  keep your survey to a reasonable number of questions and pages. If you can do your survey in 50 questions instead of 60 or 8 instead of 10, why would you write those extra questions as a time waster for both you and for your participants?

#7 Be careful with question wording

Keep in mind that depending on your topic, your participants may not be as up to date on modern web lingo or idioms. So, to be most effective, use proper grammar and make sure to define terms that may not be known to your respondents.

#8 Tell your participants how long it will take to complete your survey

If your participants know before they begin the survey that it will take a certain amount of time to complete the survey, they will know whether or not they can complete it or if they have to wait and do it later.

#9 Make sure to proof read

Spelling and grammatical errors can not only lessen the legitimacy of your survey but also confuse your participants.

#10 Know how you are going to analyze the data

By knowing in advance what type of data you will need in order to do your analysis, you can create your survey in a way to get the correct format of responses.

Tips and Techniques for Creating your Survey #1

Posted in: Blog by alex on February 3, 2010

We want you to have a great survey-making experience so here are some survey design tips from us to you

#1 Make sure your questions are concise and to the point.
If your questions are too wordy or complicated your participants may not grasp what you are asking.

#2 If you have to limit your number of participants, choose them wisely
If you chose to do a survey on medical supplies but all of your participants were school teachers they probably would not give you the best results.

#3 Make your questions interesting and thought provoking
If your participants are entertained while taking your survey, they will be more likely to enjoy taking it and in the future look forward to helping you out again.

#4 Change the color scheme of your survey
If you choose a color scheme that matches your website or a color scheme that matches the questions you are asking,your questions will resonate more with your respondents.

#5 Try to limit the number of text boxes you put into your survey
Lengthy, wordy and roundabout answers can be avoided by offering specific choices in either a multiple choice or drop down answer question. By allotting specific responses to your questions, the participant will be much more content upon completing the survey. Answering open-ended questions can take a long time and can lead to respondent fatigue.

FluidSurveys Update

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We promised a FluidSurveys update and now its here! Not only has our software been updated but also our website. Our new website updates include a revised homepage and a very detailed features page. Our features page includes an easy to use search engine so you can quickly look up the specifics on a particular feature that you are interested in. Our software enhancements include:

• The Survey editor has a 10x speed increase (especially useful for people using IE6)
• There is now API Access to FluidSurveys.  Where you can change the width of the columns of matrix questions in “real time”.
• Brand new advanced branching interface – more effective, more powerful, and with more options.
• Updated Natrix Question allowing for more intense surveying
• With the quiz question you can now Create Tests / Quizzes, Show Scores, and even Show Correct/Incorrect Answers.
• 3D Matrix on Steroids – Spreadsheet Question – Create Multiple Column Questions and include a different question type in each question.
• Updated and More Robust Survey Invite Tool.
• + many other enhancements….

We are happy and proud of the advances we have made in our software. However, as always with new updates we are still working out the quirks if you have any questions or concerns please send us an e-mail and we will look into it ASAP. Enjoy all of the new updates!

FluidSurveys Case Study – Election Polls in Nova Scotia

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The following case study presents how a market research company in Nova Scotia (Nova Insights) used FluidSurveys to conduct election polls.

Paul DesBarres, President of Nova Scotia-based Nova Insights Market Research & Consulting, savors the moment his small public-opinion research firm predicted an NDP victory in the recent provincial election:  “No one ever thought we would have an NDP majority.  The major media outlets couldn’t believe it…they wouldn’t trust the online results.”

In the election, dissatisfaction with Premier Rodney MacDonald led to Darrel Dexter’s emergence as head of Atlantic Canada’s first New Democratic Party provincial government.

The success of Nova Insights’ polling is due to a combination of traditional survey rigor with its new use of online survey techniques — a movement which, according to Mr. DesBarres, reflect the ‘tipping point’ that the use of technology has reached in society.

“Today 81% of adult Nova Scotians are online,” said Mr. DesBarres, “and the number is growing fast.  Traditional phone-type surveys suffer because an increasing number of people are on cell phones and not on land-line phones, and in any case they are not as comfortable talking with a live interviewer about some subjects.  People would rather do a survey online, where their answers can be done at their convenience, and in a more considered way.”

Mr. DesBarres also credits his survey tool, FluidSurveys, for providing the flexibility and methodological rigor to efficiently collect information from the public in an unbiased manner.

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