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Archive for April, 2012

10 Tips to Improve Your Online Surveys

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What is a great survey?

A great online survey provides you with clear, reliable, actionable insight to inform your decision-making. Great surveys have higher response rates, higher quality data and are easy to fill out.

Follow these 10 tips to …

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How To Tell The Difference Between “Good Surveys” And “Bad Surveys”

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Our research has shown that survey design parameters directly impact respondent engagement. This essentially means that by modifying the survey design parameters, we can have an effect on engagement and, correspondingly, impact data quality – and turn a “bad survey” into …

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Evolution As A Tool For Better Surveys

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Back when you were in school, most math problems had one correct answer, and you could prove if you were right or wrong.  But many real-world problems are messy and don’t have one right answer, or an obvious best answer. …

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–SurveyMonkey Audience Weighs In

Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States began a round of deliberations that have been hotly anticipated and speculated about for the past two years: “ObamaCare,” more formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of …

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Google+ versus Facebook— Facts Revealed! (A Social Networks Survey: Part 2, Usage)

Last week, we kicked off our 4-part series profiling the differences between Google+ and Facebook. Using SurveyMonkey Audience, we surveyed over 1,400 people to get a sense of how the public uses the two social media platforms. We then distilled …

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How To Use Piping To Show A Respondent Their Answers Within The Survey

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Let’s face it. survey results are more fun when shared. The Share Responses link and Instant Results features are great ways to show your survey audience a quick view of the survey results.

Our Piping feature (Available on GOLD and …

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Benchmarking For Better Surveys

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People have been sending out good surveys for a long time.  However, they have been sending out bad surveys for about as long.  Haven’t you ever wondered whether it would be possible to learn from these past successes and failures …

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Come Test Drive the Future of Survey Creation

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Salutations survey-makers! My name is Kevin Hale and I serve as a Product Manager here at SurveyMonkey. My team has been tasked with the great responsibility of reimagining and building out a brand new survey creation experience for SurveyMonkey. Before …

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How To Be A Survey Superhero

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This article is the first in a series of survey tips, tricks, and suggestions to help you get started with SurveyMonkey. In this article we focus on the methods and best practices as well as resources available …

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Google+ versus Facebook— Facts Revealed! (A Social Networks Survey: Part 1, Engagement)

Capulet versus Montague. Mac versus PC. Red Vines versus Twizzlers.

It’s time to add a new duo to these disputed rivalries—that’s right: Google+ versus Facebook!

Rarely, if ever, is Google considered an underdog. Yet, in the battle for social networking …

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