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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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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Free survey sites

Need to create a survey and you are a student or have a very low budget? There are free survey sites on the web that can help you with your task. We will try to list some of them here. Keep reading to find out which are the best free survey tools.

There are many survey sites available online that claim to be free. Unfortunately that’s not entirely true. Most of them will have limitations that will make you purchase an account at some point if you really need a professional survey. But, in some cases, the free features these sites offer can be enough for a large number of people that need to create surveys.

Here is a list of site that we have found useful. We will try to review them in more details in our next posts.

1. Survey Monkey – www.surveymonkey.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• number of responses allowed – 100 per survey
• number of questions – 10 per survey
• (allows unlimited surveys per account)

2. QuestionPro – www.questionpro.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• surveys per account – maximum 2
• number of questions – 10 per survey
• (allows unlimited responses)

3. eSurveysPro.com – www.esurveyspro.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• displays Google Ads on the survey page
• (allows unlimited responses)
• (allows unlimited questions per survey)
• (allows unlimited surveys per account)

4. Zoomerang – www.zoomerang.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• number of responses allowed – 100 per survey
• number of questions – 10 30 per survey
• (allows unlimited surveys per account)

5. SurveyGizmo – www.surveygizmo.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• number of responses allowed - 250 per month
• (allows unlimited surveys per account)
• (allows unlimited questions per survey)

6. FreeOnlineSurveys.com – www.freeonlinesurveys.com

Main limitations of the free account:

• number of responses allowed - 50 per survey
• survey data available for 10 days
• number of questions – 20 per survey
• (allows unlimited surveys per account)

For more details about online surveys and survey software reviews visit http://www.survey-reviews.net/.