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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SurveyMonkey acquires Zoomerang

SurveyMonkey is without any doubt the biggest online survey software platform. It is used by millions of individuals and companies. Until 2009, SurveyMonkey was operated by a handful of people. We have covered the acquisition of SurveyMonkey by an investor group led by Spectrum Equity Investors. Since then, SurveyMonkey acquired a number of smaller businesses. Now the saga continues, but with the acquisition of a big player this time: Zoomerang.
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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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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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SurveyMonkey.com Review

Our first detailed review is for Survey Monkey. SurveyMonkey.com seems to be one of the most used survey software tools. We will try to see why. This review is written while we are performing the tasks, step by step.

Signing up for a free account is very easy. It takes less than a minute because you only need to enter a few details (see screenshot below). An email confirmation of the account creation follows shortly.

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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/.