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A Brief Guide to Surveying Your Audience

Tips and tools for getting advice from people who mean the most to your brand

Surveys and polls can be very telling. These direct comments from your audience can tell what they like and what they don’t like, while offering tips on creating better experiences.

When conducting surveys, remember to keep your research objectives in mind. This

Tips and tools for getting advice from people who mean the most to your brand

Surveys and polls can be very telling. These direct comments from your audience can tell what they like and what they don’t like, while offering tips on creating better experiences.

When conducting surveys, remember to keep your research objectives in mind. This will help keep your questions focused on the end result.

The scope of your survey should dictate how you ask the questions. For instance, if you are expecting thousands of respondents, and you don’t have a lot of time or resources to dedicate to interpreting the data, providing close-ended questions may be the easiest method. However, using open-ended questions can lead to valuable qualitative answers.

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For WordPress users wanting to host surveys on their website, here are a few plug-in options.

PollMe allows you to easily create as many polls as you like. The results can be displayed as pie charts, bar graphs, or in a spreadsheet.

SurveyMe is similar to PollMe when it comes to ease of use; neither plug-in requires extensive coding knowledge. This plug-in offers easy to modify survey forms.

WP Survey and Quiz Tool lets operators design quizzes in addition to surveys and polls.

Have you ever conducted a survey for your organization? What types of questions did you ask? Were the results you received helpful?

By Amanda MacArthur

Research Director & Managing Editor

Amanda is responsible for all the articles you read on the Mequoda Daily portal and every email newsletter delivered to your inbox from us. She is also our in-house social media expert and would love to chat with you over on @Mequoda. She has worked with Mequoda for almost a decade, helping to evolve the Mequoda Method through research, testing and developing new best practices in digital publishing, editorial strategy, email marketing and audience development. Amanda is a co-author of our four digital publishing handbooks.

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