SurveyMethods.com is one of the most powerful online survey software applications. SurveyMethods.com enables individuals and businesses to easily create professional surveys, deploy them via email or post them on the web, and collect and analyze respondent data through its easy-to-use graphical based analysis module. The founders had a mission: to develop an easy-to-use, user friendly, full featured survey software for an affordable price. While most of our competitors charge several thousand dollars for an equivalent system, our subscription rates range from $9 to $39 per month.

Simply sign up for an account on www.surveymethods.com and you can start creating and deploying surveys immediately. Click on the Create Survey button in your account and select from 20 different types of question. For each question, enter the question and the answer choices and that's it! You can choose additional settings like making the questions mandatory, optional, creating skip logic, and more. Additionally you can change the color combinations of your survey, and add your logo. Once you create your survey, simply click on the launch button to send it to email addresses or generate a survey web URL to post it on a website or paste it in your email. Click here to watch the demo.

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SurveyMethods.com is feature loaded, making it one of the most powerful survey solutions available to you. To view a list of features click on the Sign Up page. http://www.surveymethods.com/registration.aspx. To watch the five minute demo to learn how companies around the world use SurveyMethods for their survey project needs, Click here.

There is absolutely NO programming required. Designing your survey is extremely easy. Click on the Create Survey button in your account and select from 20 different types of questions. For each question, enter the question and the answer choices and that's it! You can choose additional settings like making the questions mandatory, optional, add skip logic, and more. Additionally you can change the color combinations of your survey, and add your logo. Once you create your survey, simply click on the launch button to send it to email addresses or generate a survey web URL to post it on a website or paste it in your email. Click here to watch the 5 minute demo.

Our goal is to help you execute a successful survey project. As a result we offer a variety of resources and support options:

• Survey Templates form Our Survey Library: The SurveyMethods.com survey library contains a large number of surveys that you can copy and modify for your own use.
• Customer Support: If you have any questions or just need some help, you can contact customer support via email or phone:
  • Voice Customer Support: Unlike most of our competitors we provide you with a toll free phone number. Feel free to call us with your questions: Toll Free 1-800-601-2462 or regular at 214-257-9809. International customers should call +1-214-257-9809.
  • Email Customer Support: You can also reach us via email through our email form available by clicking on http://www.surveymethods.com/contactus.aspx

The benefit of online surveys is that you are able to get a much higher response rates (as opposed to mailed paper surveys). While mailed paper surveys traditionally get less than 2% responses, online surveys can get you anywhere from 15% to 99% responses depending on who your target audience is and how you've built your survey. Most responses are usually received in the first 24 to 48 hours of sending out a survey. Compared to other mediums, online surveys are one of the most effective means of collecting and analyzing data. Data analysis is easy, integrated, and real time. SurveyMethods.com enables you to easily create surveys and send them to thousands of individuals in seconds. You can choose from 20 question types and over 10 presentation styles.

SurveyMethods.com does not tie its users to contracts. There are no contracts! Sign up with your credit card through our secure sign up process and your subscription will renew every month. You can upgrade or cancel your account at any time by going to the My Account section of your account and upgrading or cancelling your account.

Absolutely! Just sign up for a free account and you'll be automatically upgraded to a 7 day Free Trial Professional account to experience all the features of SurveyMethods.com.

The Basic package with limited features is free. The Advanced package is $9 per month, and the Professional package is $39 per month. Academic and non profit institutions get a 40% discount on a one year pre-paid Professional membership. Click here to compare packages.

Online survey software applications that have near equivalent features cost between $1000 to $15,000 per year. Below are a handful of packages you can compare us to. SurveyMethods.com was designed to be extremely easy-to-use, very powerful, and affordable for everyone.

KeySurvey	SuperSurvey	EZSurve	Sawtooth	Insite
ObjectPlanet	SnapSurveys	Grapevine	Zoomerang	Apian

SurveyMethods.com users consist of Fortune 500 companies, small to mid sized businesses, marketing professionals, HR and OD professionals, and others. To see a sample list of our users visit our Client Showcase.

SurveyMethods.com users consist of Fortune 500 companies, small to mid sized businesses, marketing professionals, HR and OD professionals, and others. To see a sample list of our users visit our Client Showcase.

Yes SurveyMethods.com is extremely secure. Only you can access your surveys and data by logging into your account. Unlike many of our competitors that use a sequential survey numbering system, when you launch a survey with SurveyMethods.com generates a survey URL that has a 14 digit encrypted suffix. Hence a person can only take your survey if you provide them the survey link.

There is no messy software installation process to go through. Simply access www.SurveyMethods.com with your web browser, log into your account, create surveys, launch them, and analyze your survey data.

Yes you can. Create your survey and do a web URL launch. This creates an encrypted web URL for your survey that you can post on a website or paste in your email. When users click on your web URL to take your survey you can not track them. The system does however record their IP address.

Surveys can also be configured with skip logic to serve up questions, or skip questions, based on how previous questions were answered. This is extremely easy to do. When designing a survey click on Add Skip Logic button on the page that you want to add skip logic on. Skip logic is configured on a question level and is processed when the page is submitted.

SurveyMethods.com makes adding your logo extremely easy. When designing your survey click on the Add Logo button. You can either upload a file or point to your website and import your logo.

SurveyMethods.com provides you with a color palette feature to configure your color combinations. You can either select a predefined presentation style for you survey, or you can create your own color combinations for your survey using the color palette.

SurveyMethods.com has several survey libraries from which you can copy and modify surveys. The Libraries include: Customer Satisfaction, Event Planning, Human Resources, Meetings, Organizational Development, Organizations and Groups, Product Development, Sales, Strategy Development, and Training and Education Libraries.

Yes they can. When designing a survey, edit each question and select whether you want the question to be mandatory or optional.

Yes. When designing a survey click on the Spell Check button to check spellings in your survey.

SurveyMethods allows you to create a survey and then collaborate with other SurveyMethods users. This feature is available to Professional Account holders. You can collaborate by selecting a survey and then clicking on the "Collaborate" button on the main screen when you're logged into your account. When you collaborate on a survey with someone else, you can assign access rights to those you collaborate with. You can allow others to view, edit, and copy your survey.
NOTE: You can only initiate collaboration on a survey that you own and from a Professional account.

Yes. Respondents can take a survey and then come back to finish it later. This feature is activated when you launch a survey and enable each respondent to take the survey once.

You can generate a survey URL to post on your website for individuals to access, or paste in your own email.

When you launch a survey through SurveyMethods, you can choose to upload or paste a list of emails through the launch process and send your survey through the SurveyMethods email launch system. SurveyMethods.com then sends each individual a unique encrypted survey URL via email that appears to be coming from your email address. This email contains a link for the recipient to click on and take the survey. When you use this method of launching surveys, you are able to see who has responded, who has not responded, and who has opted-out of taking your survey.

With the Advanced or Professional packages you can create an advanced email list and assign up to 5 values to each email address. For example you can assign the First Name, Last Name, Customer ID, Region, and Support Rep to each email address you send the survey to. Then after individuals have taken your survey you can conduct analysis by the Support Rep, or Region.

With the Basic package there is a limit of 50 responses per month across all surveys in your account. In the advanced package there is a limit of 1000 responses per month across all surveys in your account. In the Professional package there is a limit of 5000 responses per month across all surveys in your account. NOTE: If you have a paid account, once you cross your limit the system automatically charges your credit card an additional $5 for an additional 2000 responses.

Yes, once you launch your survey you can go to the settings page and set the survey to close after a certain number of people have taken it. You can also set the survey to automatically close on a particular date.

Yes. When you launch your survey the system will prompt you to select if you want each respondent to take the survey once or multiple times.

If you launch your survey through SurveyMethods.com's email launch feature then SurveyMethods.com sends out a unique URL for each recipient to click on to take the survey. SurveyMethods.com is able to track who has taken the survey, who has not, and who has opted out. You can see this information on the dashboard for that survey which is displayed in the Analyze or Manage sections.

Yes. Create your survey on SurveyMethods.com and launch your survey to generate a web URL. You can then click on the survey URL to take the survey and enter the data from your paper surveys. Once you have entered all your data then you can go to the Analyze section of your survey to conduct in-depth analysis.

Yes. Once you launch your survey go to the settings section of your survey and click on the link that says setup Automatic Reminders. Here you can setup SurveyMethods.com to send automatic reminders to the recipients who have not responded.

The Analyze module is one of SurveyMethods strongest feature sets. When you launch a survey and have collected sufficient responses, the Analyze section enables you to:

• View summarized results
• View individual results
• Create reports that compare the results for groups of respondents
• Create Graphs and Charts and export them to MicrosoftÒ PowerPoint or other applications
• Create custom PDF reports which you can email to others

You can publish your survey results to the internet and also password protect access to your published reports. To do this, go to the Settings section of your survey and click on Publish Survey Results link. Here you can configure your publish results settings and activate them. SurveyMethods.com provides you with a URL that you can distribute to your friends and colleagues whom you want to share your survey results with. When individuals click on this URL they will be able to view your survey results. You can turn off the publish results for your survey at any time.

You can export your data to Microsoft Excel for further Analysis. You can also use our one-click-to-PowerPoint feature by clicking one button to generate a full fledged PowerPoint presentation that you can then edit and present to your audience.

SurveyMethods.com enables you conduct powerful cross-tab analysis on your survey data. You can create criteria/filters to show how different groups of respondents answered questions. Example: A mobile phone service company has surveyed consumers in multiple cities to understand how mobile phone usage differs by consumer type and other factors. Using the Apply Criteria feature, it can conduct in-depth analysis on the survey data. The company could build criteria along the lines of:

• "Show data for those who live in Dallas"
• "Show data for people above the age of 30 and who live in New York"
• "Show data for respondents below the age of 30"
• "Show data for respondents above the age of 30 who live in Dallas, and who are married" etc.

The SurveyMethods.com comparison report enables you to compare two or more groups of respondents to each other by creating criteria that defines each group. Go to the Analysis section of your survey and click on the Compare Results report to create a comparison report.

You can export your data to Microsoft Excel for further analysis and you can also generate a PowerPoint presentation by just clicking on one button. Go to any of the analysis reports and on the top right corner, click on the Export to Excel link.