The Zoomerang Blog has moved

We’ve packed up and moved our blog to http://www.zoomerang.com/blog/.

The new blog is now part of our website so you can easily surf our site and check out survey templates, webinars and sign up for a free basic account. You can still get the same great content on cool new survey features, Market Research trends and survey creation tips at the  Zoomerang Blog.

Come check out the new Zoomerang Blog.

New Premium Feature – Add Parameters to Your Survey Link

Zoomerang Premium subscribers now have the option to pass respondent data through the survey URL to capture pre-collected information about your respondents, such as their job function or geographical region, or track additional information about your respondents, such as the website where they clicked the link to take the survey, without needing to ask for this information in the survey.

After you define parameters and launch the survey, you can customize the survey link with unique values for each parameter. When someone clicks the link to access the survey, the parameter value you entered into the survey link will display as the respondent’s answer to the hidden question in your results. Each parameter will display in your results as a hidden question and the unique values you enter for each parameter will display as the responses to that hidden question.

For example: If you want to post a survey on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, you can track which site the respondent clicked the link to take your survey. Once you define the parameter and launch the survey, you can include the name of each site in the link you post in each location to help you identify and create reports based on where the respondent accessed your survey.

In addition, once your Zoomerang Premium subscription is mapped to your Salesforce.com account, you can generate Hidden Questions to display in your survey results:

– When you map Salesforce campaign member information to Zoomerang as you deploy a survey to a Salesforce campaign

– When you pass data through the generic survey link as you deploy a survey using the web deployment option:

    – Each parameter you define will display in your results as a hidden question (with the Hidden Question Label you entered)

   – The unique values you entered for each parameter will display as the responses to that hidden question

   – When someone clicks a link to take the survey, the unique parameter value you entered will be captured as the respondent’s response to that hidden question

Respondent data associated with your hidden questions will display (in green boxes to differentiate them from the questions) at the end of your survey questions from the Analyze Results tab similar to the responses to open-ended survey questions.

Zoomerang’s Survey Tip Of The Day On Twitter – Weekly Update 12/16/09

 

Zoomerang has a wealth of information available to help you collect the actionable data you need and analyze the results. You can find a new Zoomerang Survey Tip each day on Twitter which are designed to help make your survey experience a success.

To help keep you up to date, I have compiled the survey tips from the last week for easier reference and I will be posting an update weekly.

– Use a different color and/or font to make instructions distinct from questions – Your survey will be easier to follow

– Estimate the time to complete for your respondents – Respondents can complete 5 closed-ended questions per minute and 2 open-ended questions per minute on average

– Use Tag Clouds to turn a category or tag list of written answers (open-ended response) into a graph

– Place mobile survey keyword codes in ads, in stores, or on coupons & watch real-time results online

You can find compiled lists of the previous Survey Tip of the Days as well as additional online survey tips and suggestions here at the Zoomerang blog as well as links to helpful Zoomerang tutorials and Zoomerang webinars.

Be sure to follow Zoomerang on Twitter if you would like to view the Survey Tip each day. You can also add the Zoomerang blog to your RSS feed or bookmark the site to get the weekly recap. If you have any survey tips you would like to share leave me a comment or send me an email, Zoomerang is all about sharing knowledge.

Cool Beans –Zoomerang Launches Twitter Integration Feature

Twitter has been described as a personal news-wire service countless of times and with good reason. Whether it’s updates from friends, family, companies, school administrators, co-workers, brands, or breaking world events, the real-time aspect of sending and receiving Twitter updates is frequently being incorporated into daily life. Twitter’s demographic diversity and geographic reach (not to mention accessibility via a wide range of mobile devices) also makes it an excellent platform for short surveys, especially those requiring immediate feedback.

Zoomerang’s Twitter Integration feature enables you to automatically post a tweet of your survey (including URL) right from the Zoomerang Survey Launch page. By pre-formatting announcements that allow up to 140 characters Zoomerang’s Twitter Integration Feature acts as a Twitter client for your survey, making it a fast and easy way to tweet a respondent request along with the survey URL directly to your followers instantly upon survey deployment.

When you tweet your survey you will also be reaching far beyond your Twitter followers. Along with generous retweets, including keyword hashtags in your survey description will help your survey tweet go viral across the Twitterverse and beyond: In addition to the traditional Google search results, Google Search Appliance is now providing results from Twitter and Bing has also begun indexing tweets.

As social media is becoming a more integral factor to the overall market research feedback loop, Zoomerang subscribers can use URL parameters to segment survey deployments in order to easily segment specific survey groups or targeted deployments. By using a unique code for each audience, Zoomerang subscribers can determine how respondents to a MySpace survey, Facebook poll or Twitter survey compared to respondents in a control group.

Whether you are deploying a short customer satisfaction survey, gathering event feedback, surveying students regarding a school issue or interested in visitor feedback on your blog or website, posting your survey on Twitter can quickly bring you a world of actionable data and by using Zoomerang’s Twitter Integration the online survey process has become even more efficient.

Zoomerang’s Survey Tip Of The Day On Twitter – Weekly Update 12/09/09

Zoomerang has a wealth of information available to help you collect the actionable data you need and analyze the results. You can find a new Zoomerang Survey Tip each day on Twitter which are designed to help make your survey experience a success.

To help keep you up to date, I have compiled the survey tips from the last week for easier reference and I will be posting an update weekly.

– Survey your blog subscribers to help develop more engaged readers and a higher quality subscriber list

– Employee surveys can help reveal where resources are being utilized most effectively to help reduce redundancies

– Select respondent samples that are representative of the population AND who have the knowledge to answer the questions

– When tweeting your survey keep the survey description under 98 characters to allow enough room for the URL & retweets

– Gather feedback regarding specific services currently on the market with a Service Evaluation Survey

You can find compiled lists of the previous Survey Tip of the Days as well as additional online survey tips and suggestions here at the Zoomerang blog as well as links to helpful Zoomerang tutorials and Zoomerang webinars.

Be sure to follow Zoomerang on Twitter if you would like to view the Survey Tip each day. You can also add the Zoomerang blog to your RSS feed or bookmark the site to get the weekly recap. If you have any survey tips you would like to share leave me a comment or send me an email, Zoomerang is all about sharing knowledge.