Survey Software Reviews

Qualtrics Raises $70 Million in Funding from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital

Qualtrics, the company that makes sophisticated research simple, announced a couple of days ago that it has partnered with Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital in the two firms’ largest-ever joint investment. Accel and Sequoia will provide a range of services and $70 million to help Qualtrics expand its SaaS product offerings beyond market research and accelerate its global growth, beginning with the hiring of another 250 employees in the next year alone.

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CheckMarket survey software review

Today’s review is about CheckMarket, an online survey company started in 2002. 10 years of experience in this domain is huge. CheckMarket claims to be very customer oriented, providing phone and email support at any time. Also, besides the standard survey tool, CheckMarket also offers a wide range of services that include scanning, panels, analysis, design, programming and consulting by market research experts.

We will review now the main features of the survey software tool that CheckMarket offers.

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Google launches consumer surveys tool

Online surveys market is already a very full place. There are many companies that offer web-based survey services that can help anyone, big or small, to create market research surveys, human resources surveys, customer satisfaction surveys and many more types of online surveys. Every company is interested in what their customers or potential customer are thinking so market research surveys take an important place.

Very often, companies do not have a long enough customer list to be able to question and find detailed answers about their business. Many of these companies are willing to pay a small fee for each answer they would get to their surveys. Because of that, a lot of the survey companies from the market started to build online panels that allow companies to purchase respondents to their surveys.

I don’t know if this is a surprise or not, but Google recently announced the launch of Google Consumer Surveys.

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Smart-survey.co.uk software review

After we have reviewed a number of free versions of popular survey software sites, today is the time when we will review for the first time a professional version of a survey application. The provider we chose is Smart-Survey.co.uk, an UK based survey software company. The site was initially launched in 2002, so they should be very experienced in this field.

The version that we will review from Smart-Survey is the Professional version that costs £29.99 GBP/month (around $48 USD/month today). Smart-Survey also offers a Free account (limited at 100 responses per month) and a Basic account (limited at 350 responses per month).

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Top 10 promising online survey tools

An increasing number of companies today choose to internalize their marketing research needs due to budget constraints or maybe some other causes. Many have discovered the ease and convenience of using online marketing research tools that can help them gather customer satisfaction opinions or employee feedback.

To know which of the many online survey tools is the most beneficial for your business could be a hard thing. For example, in our survey software directory there are listed around 100 survey software companies and each and every one of them try to convince you that they are the best in their field.

We have reviewed in the past a number of online survey tools and to help you better decide which is the best online survey software, we have compiled another list of 10 online survey tools that we did not cover yet, but look very promising to us.
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Free survey software – How it might help your business

Online surveys have nowadays become an important part of the marketing suite of tools. Free online surveys have only facilitated this spread of using technology to allow companies to get closer to their clients and email surveys have brought both parties in the same piece of cyberspace. The bigger question that needs to be asked is: do these surveys really add any value? The answer is a resounding yes for the following reasons.

The online world may have brought down barriers to trade but they have also taken away the personal aspect of business. Where salesmen could read a raised brow or a frown, the online marketer can only guess what is going on in the buyer’s mind. Therefore, surveys play an important part in getting to know what the customer is thinking at crucial points of time.
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Alternatives to Survey Monkey

Survey Monkey is one of the best online survey software providers and one of the companies that inspired many with their innovative approach to online surveys. They provided a simple, easy to use survey platform that is now used by millions of users. The company grew very fast in the last few years and for sure it will grow even more in the near future.

Founder Ryan Finley started SurveyMonkey in 1999. With his brother Chris, Finley grew the company to a rumored $30 million in sales– without raising any outside funding. In 2009, Spectrum Equity and Bain Capital bought out the Finleys, installing Goldberg, a former Yahoo exec, as the chief executive.
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Free questionnaire templates

So, you need to conduct an online survey. You are probably in need for a way to find out more about your customers or employees or a product. Probably there are questions in your mind that you would like answered. Creating an online survey is indeed what you need to do.

Writing great questions for your survey is like an art that requires a lot of practice. It’s never easy to have people answering your survey and for sure you would like to have as many responses as you need and you would like those responses to be accurate. To be able to do that, you will need to pay a great deal of attention to your questionnaire.

But what if you can get some free help when creating your online survey? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
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Top 7 online poll software tools

The traditional paper based survey has long been used as a means to gather both qualitative and quantitative data. Such surveys can be quick to develop and easy to administer however there are a number of problems that can affect the validity of the results. In particular it can be difficult to obtain a large enough cohort willing to participate in such surveys but more disturbingly that the typical response rate may be low making it difficult to perform worthwhile statistical analysis on the data.

An alternative to the paper based survey is the use of an online survey. The online survey has the advantage of reaching a much wider cohort of people and as a result obtaining a significantly higher numbers of responses.

Similar to online surveys is the online poll. Rather than replicate a paper based survey in an online environment, a poll presents individual questions to users giving them the flexibility to respond to as many or as few questions as they choose. In comparison to online surveys, by their nature online polls have the ability to survey much larger numbers of respondents but have the disadvantage of being unable to correlate responses.
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eSurveysPro.com survey software review

The first survey software review of 2012 is done for eSurveysPro.com, one of the top online survey software providers. eSurveysPro was launched in 2006 and since then it has added a lot of features making it one of the best survey software solutions on web. Last month we conducted a poll where we asked our readers to vote for their favorite survey tool. eSurveysPro.com came in second, after SurveyMonkey, but ahead of SurveyGizmo, Zoomerang and QuestionPro.
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