{"id":25,"date":"2012-08-06T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.survio.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:02:43","slug":"online-survey-questionnaire-tools-why-to-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-en.survio.com\/tips-and-tricks\/online-survey-tools-why-should-you-use-them","title":{"rendered":"Online Survey Tools: Why Should You Use Them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>What Is an Online Survey, Anyway?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Above all, it\u2019s nothing special! It\u2019s just a web page that\u2019s mainly made up of a form.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There may also be some texts, pictures, and video along with it. The goal of this page\u2014this survey\u2014is to gather data, or you might say <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">answers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<h2><b>Examples of Online Surveys<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Online surveys<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are generally used for <\/span><b>quickly collecting feedback and other information from customers, employees, hospital patients, etc.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That most often means:<\/span><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing research surveys<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer satisfaction surveys<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surveys for evaluating a product or service<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surveys for students<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employee satisfaction surveys<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Post-training surveys<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>How Do You Create an Online Survey?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many ways to create an online survey form. But here are three typical ways that people use in practice.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<h4><b>Word Processors<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can create a document with questions and entry fields using a word processor like MS Word or OpenOffice. You can save it as a web page, which you then have to publish at some web address (URL). Doing this only creates a passive web page with a form, which <\/span><b>cannot collect any data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So it\u2019s a bit of a mystery why some people do this, since a form like this doesn\u2019t do anything. All that it\u2019s good for is publishing for later printing and sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another way to use a form made in a text editor is to email that form and have people fill it out. But if you do this, you may be sorry you did. You\u2019ll get back a mountain of files, one for every single answer, and you\u2019ll have to open and evaluate them one by one.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"block block-tip\">This is a laborious, time-intensive solution that also demands experience with office software like Word, Write, Excel, etc.<\/div>\n<h4><b>Custom Solutions<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until recently this was the only way to have a true online survey. Here the survey is \u201chard-programmed\u201d into a web form based on a sample you provide. After this, it is published, followed by the collecting of data (answers) into a text file.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This solution is functional, but <\/span><b>inconvenient<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014you can\u2019t normally edit the survey later, preview the results in pre-made graphs, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"block block-tip\">Programming an online survey demands knowledge of basic scripting languages (PHP, ASP, etc.), many hours of work, and feature testing, and costs of hundreds of dollars or more.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s true that there are professionally produced customized surveys out there, including graphic designs and access to the evaluated data. But these are ten to a hundred times more expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<h4><b>Online Survey Creation Tools<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no shortage of tools on the market today that let users create online forms. Some are convenient, some aren\u2019t. These systems have several <\/span><b>benefits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Creating a survey in them is easy, and they have templates you can use and automatic evaluations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every online survey system should be able to not only create a survey, but also distribute it, and above all collect answers and then show them in tables and graphs. You\u2019ll also be a lot happier if you can add your survey to Facebook, your website, and your e-shop.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"block block-tip\">Online tools such as Survio.com make creating surveys and collecting data very easy and quick\u2014and free.<\/div>\n<h2><b>Survio as the simplest tool for creating surveys<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Creating online surveys in Survio is simply a snap, and it works like this:<\/b><\/p>\n\n<ol>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You sign in or register<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pick a ready-made survey from our library<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You pick a graphical template<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>And you\u2019re done!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve designed the whole system to meet ordinary web users, and their knowledge, in the middle. \u00a0So with Survio, anyone can design and use their own online survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give it a try &#8211;<\/span> <a title=\"Create an online survey for free\" href=\"\/\/www.survio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create an online survey for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">What Is an Online Survey, Anyway? 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