Step 4: Conduct surveys any way that you like:

After you have successfully published survey form, you will be given your survey form URL address. With your URL address,  you are ready to conduct your survey. There are several ways you can do this:

Web Site Survey

One of easiest methods of conducting a survey is to use the Web. Just link your survey form URL with your web page. You can publicize your survey form by registering your URL with many popular internet search engine databases and telling your clients to go to your Web page to fill out and submit the survey form. Right now, many companies use this method for site visitor

Email Surveys

If you have Email addresses for your clients, you can attach your survey form URL to your mail message. After receiving your Email, they can directly click the hot link to go to your survey form web page and respond. If they use Netscape mail reader, they can fill in and submit the survey form directly.

As Email is widely used in corporate environment, it is the the most economic and fastest way for conducting the following types of surveys:

Telephone interview surveys

Your telephone interviewers can log in to your Web survey page using the survey
form URL address. Then they call the people and ask the questions shown on the survey form. They fill in the survey form as they receive the respondents answers. After finishing the telephone interview, they just click the submit button to send the answers to the InfoPoll server for immediate analysis.  One of the key advantages with InfoPoll is that telephone interviewers can be located at different locations and conduct the survey at same time. This type of survey method is best used in:

Fax and regular paper surveys

With InfoPoll, you can quickly create your questionnaire and publish it to the InfoPoll Server. Print out your survey form from a Web browser and send out your survey form together with a letter message to your clients through fax or regular mail. After collecting all the responses, you log into your Web survey form page to fill in and submit information according to the answers received so that the analysis can be completed automatically.

Personal interview surveys

Design and setup your questionnaire. From a Web browser, you can print out the survey form and make as many copies as you wish. Give the survey form to the interviewers. The interviewers write down the answers directly on the survey form when conducting the personal interview. After completing the interview, log in to your survey form Web page, fill in the questions, and submit the form on line based on the recorded answers so that the analysis can be completed automatically.

Also the conductor of the interviews can bring a computer or use a computer in an interviewee’s office to connect to the InfoPoll web server to record the answers to the questions directly for immediate survey analysis.

Internet news group survey

You can also send your survey form to one or several related internet news groups. Users of the news groups can directly fill out the form and submit. 

For a survey, you can also choose to combine two or more ways at the same time.

Next Step: Analyze survey data and deliver survey report

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