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A poorly constructed survey will give you poor data. Find out how to improve the responses you get from your survey-takers by treating them like human beings.
You’ve designed your survey and you’re ready to launch—congrats! But one nagging worry: I’ve put all this work writing my survey, but what if people skip some of my questions? Ah-hah! I’ll just require that respondents answer all my questions—problem solved. Well, not so fast. According to researchers there are some definite downsides to requiring […]
Let’s get social, everybody. There are a bunch of different ways to get responses, but when it comes to spreading the survey word, social media is a pretty dynamic way to collecting data. We’re excited to share that our product team has been working hard to optimize your social experience by adding Twitter and LinkedIn […]
Writing a survey can sometimes be challenging. But anything worth doing is challenging. We’ve heard that too, so no worries. We love a good challenge, especially when it has to do with—take a guess—yep, surveys. Back to (page) basics One of the first questions that may come to mind for you is simply, how many […]
We talk a lot about mobile optimization for surveys, but we don’t always get into the nitty-gritty of why it’s so important. Sure, more than 35% of SurveyMonkey respondents are now completing surveys on mobile devices. But how do we know that their experience is any different on a smartphone than on, say, a desktop […]
Boom. Your survey is complete and you’ve already started getting insightful answers from your respondents. But how do you know when to call it a night and shut down your survey’s lights? In other words, when do you decide you’ve received all the responses you need? You could make your survey available to your respondents forever. Or […]
Survey respondents are precious. As a survey creator, your hope is that everyone who starts your survey will, well, finish it. And for good reason—a survey with a low completion rate may leave you wondering whether the people who bailed out along the way have left you with biased results. To learn how to maximize […]