Decommission of SurveyPirate

Last week, SurveyPirate announced the decommission of their services. SurveyPirate was a free survey software platform in business since 2008. They advertized as “the world’s most user friendly tool. And it is totally free!”. I guess that this “completely free” business model does not work anymore in the current economy.
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New home page design for FreeOnlineSurveys.com

FreeOnlineSurveys.com finally got their home page redesigned. Now … a lot of websites change their pages design and we don’t write about that, but in this case, it’s something that we want to point out, as FreeOnlineSurveys.com previous design was just awful.

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Vote for your favorite free survey software tool

Recently we’ve seen a number of new survey software platforms trying to make their way into an already too crowded market. We will try to cover these platforms in the next months. Right now, we have a poll that we would like to get some answers to. It gives you the chance to vote for your favorite survey software tool. Feel free to leave a comment to describe your experience with the tool.

Free survey software comparison chart

We have reviewed in the past a number of survey software tools, but we did not at any point compared the features of those survey tools in a side-by-side comparison chart. We will do it right now. We will focus again on free web based surveys platforms and we will compare the most important features: number of surveys allowed, number of questions per survey, number of responses, question types, skip logic, piping, data export and others.

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Survey Monkey – new features and payment plans

Back in April 2009, Survey Monkey announced that is has been acquired by an investor group led by Spectrum Equity Investors and including Bain Capital Ventures. Shortly after we kind of expected a move from SurveyMonkey that at the time only offered entry level survey services to its customers. Time went by and nothing seemed to happen to Survey Monkey. They added multi language support for their website, now being available in 12 languages, but that was it.

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FreeOnlineSurveys.com Survey Software Review

Searching on Google for free online surveys will invariable display FreeOnlineSurveys.com as the first result. We will try to have a look at this survey software platform to see how good and how free it is. The site is not too informative, so we will need to create an account to find out more details related to the features they offer.

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Survey market wars

Online surveys market is a crowded place. You can find tens of web sites offering online survey services. Some are good, some are mediocre. Some are fee, some are very expensive. But, if you study carefully, you will be able to create 2 (maybe 3) large categories of web sites in this market.

First of all, you will find the popular survey websites like SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, QuestionPro, eSurveysPro or SurveyGizmo. We have reviewed 3 of them so far, we will review the others in the next weeks. On these sites, you will find free accounts and you will also find the prices they charge for the premium accounts, prices that are in reasonable ranges. Besides the websites noted, there are also other that fall into the same category. We will try to identify them all and review in the near future.

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Zoomerang survey software review

It’s time for a new review of a top survey software provider. Today we will take a look at the free account that Zoomerang offers. Zoomerang is one of the best known survey software providers, online since 1999 according to their site. Very much like SurveyMonkey and QuestionPro that we have previously reviewed, Zoomerang offers survey software as a service (SaaS) for businesses conducting consumer, competitor, and customer satisfaction surveys.

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QuestionPro survey software review

Survey software applications are important tools in getting feedback from customer, employees or colleagues. We will continue our survey software reviews with the review of another popular survey software tool: QuestionPro.

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