SurveyGizmo Blog
Check Out What Users are Doing with SurveyGizmo!
August 20 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeWe thought it would be fun to show some real life examples of the cool things our customers are doing with SurveyGizmo. Today we are going to feature user Majed Ghadhban’s Arabic survey and user Jeremy Feinstein and his very professional Excel-esque Employee Compensation Online Survey.
So what’s so cool about Majed’s survey? Well, he is […]
SurveyGizmo on Startup Story Radio
August 19 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeCheck out SurveyGizmo Co-Founder, Scott McDaniel’s interview with Rob McNealy from “Startup Story Radio”. Scott talks about how to use SurveyGizmo as a cost effective marketing tool for entrepreneurs in all stages of the start-up process.
Rob McNealy, an entrepreneur enthusiast, hosts Startup Story Radio a daily small business and startup podcast. Rob interviews various start-ups […]
New Survey Features: Reporting Upgrades and Feature Improvements
August 14 2008 by Cheri WalshNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Bug fix. Bug in Report question numbering fixed.
Bug fix. No more erroneous security warnings in Reports.
Bug fix. Copying of Custom Matrix questions now works properly.
New feature. Ability to search Email Invite contacts.
Improvement. Greek characters now supported in csv exports.
Feature improvement. Improvements to survey Word export.
New feature. Can […]
New Feature: Save and Continue Online Surveys
August 8 2008 by Christian VanekIt’s now easier to save and restart long online surveys. Today we launched a feature to all Pro and Enterprise users to add a Save and Continue link to their online surveys. We’ve been busy over here in Boulder and Cambridge testing and building the next version of SurveyGizmo (more on that later). While […]
New Reporting Option, Time It Took to Answer Survey, Question Editor Improvements
August 8 2008 by Cheri WalshNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
New reporting option: You can now enable/disable the grouping of insignificant categories into an ‘other’ group for pie chart and bar charts
SPSS: Open text ‘number’ fields now import into SPSS as numbers
SPSS: Essay questions now export as a 3000 length character fields in SPSS
SPSS: Image […]
Email Invitation Deliverability, Response Time, Cross-Tab Reporting
July 30 2008 by Christian VanekThis Week’s Service Updates: a short list this week as we concentrate on SurveyGizmo 2.0!
Improved Response Time ‘Partial’ and ‘In Progress’ survey responses are no longer delayed, you can quite literally watch someone progress through a survey from the your browse response screens.
Survey Email Invitation deliverability improved (even more) We have upgraded the transmission rate […]
SalesForce Integration, Email Invitation Deliverability, Survey Printing, Custom Messages
July 23 2008 by Cheri WalshA Short List This Week While We Work on SurveyGizmo Version 2.0!
SalesForce integration. Long SalesForce actions now load faster and are easier to edit.
Survey Email Invitation deliverability improved. Changed configuration that will assist in getting email through some corporate and academic firewalls.
Better survey printing. A new and improved print style sheet for much better printing […]
New Survey Features: SPSS Export, Internet Explorer Bugs Squashed, Survey Auto Close, SalesForce Integration
July 9 2008 by Cheri WalshNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
SPSS export Internet Explorer 7 bug fix
Internet Explorer 6 Javascript embedded survey bug fix
Better performance on PDF export. Better foreign character support and table handling.
Internet Explorer 6 bug fix. Security warning no longer irritates you when navigating survey editor.
Small bug fix in reporting. Improved […]
Brittany Heidtke joins SurveyGizmo
July 8 2008 by Scott McDanielWe’re thrilled to announce that Brittany Heidtke is the new online marketing manager for SurveyGizmo. She’ll be a bit of a jack-of-all-trades here spreading the word about SurveyGizmo, improving SEO, running our campaigns, monitoring analytics, and some blogging too we hope.
She lives in a world of landing pages, long-tail keywords, A/B split testing, and […]
Webinar at EASI: Making Surveys Accessible
July 7 2008 by Scott McDanielSurveyGizmo has been invited to speak about making surveys accessible and building accessible forms for EASI, Equal Access to Software and Information. EASI hosts weekly webinars on a variety of online accessibility topics. You can read more about their Accessibility Webinar schedule here or go directly to the sign-up for “Making Accessible Online Surveys”.
EASI’s […]
Create a Mascot, Win a Pro Survey Account!
July 3 2008 by Mario LurigWe are holding a contest with a year Pro subscription to SurveyGizmo up for grabs. SurveyGizmo wants you to create a mascot for us with the Spore™ Creature Creator, and in return 1 winner will be chosen to receive a 1 year Pro account at no charge! The best part is that there is […]
New Survey Features: Publishing Page Improved, Survey Links Optimized, Poll Charts Improved, Survey User Permissions Increased
July 2 2008 by Cheri WalshNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
New, easier to understand Publishing Page
New optimized survey links. Faster load times, better response times, more scaleability.
Poll charts. Better wrapping of labels on poll charts
Poll charts. Poll charts now support international characters
www.surveygizmo.com speed improvements loading overall site and survey support forums.
Survey User Permissions. Increased number […]
SurveyGizmo Boulder Goes Green - Bike To Work Day
June 25 2008 by Scott McDaniel Today is the Denver region’s Bike to Work Day. Last year they had 20,000 participants!
Today, four of us from the Boulder SurveyGizmo made the trip into the office on two wheels. We do what we can at SurveyGizmo to be green and keep our carbon footprint as low as possible for a survey […]
Picking a Random Contest or Survey Winner in SurveyGizmo
June 22 2008 by Scott McDanielI saw a great thread in our survey forum this morning and thought I’d share a couple ideas brought out by our users “Leibiniz” and “donna d.” Donna wanted an anonymous survey to collect data but with a free offer contest to increase the submission rate.
Obviously you need to keep the survey results anonymous, but […]
Tops in Online Survey Accessibility
June 16 2008 by Derek ScruggsRecently were pleased to learn that Ohio State University recently conducted a study of accessibility in online survey tools. We pride ourselves on standards-compliant web design, and we have a strong focus on usability. OSU picked up on this:
The administrator interfaces in SurveyGizmo are a model of usability. Interfaces are clean, navigation elements are […]
New Survey Features: Create Forms Easier, API, Accessibility
June 3 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Bug Fix: URL filtering now works again in all reports
Bug Fix: Continous Sum questions now properly use Min and Max values
New Feature:Create ‘Form’ button has been added to the dashboard to simplify the creation of web forms through SurveyGizmo
Misc Fixes: some long standing spelling errors have been fixed… […]
New Survey Features: Better Survey Exports to PDF and Excel, Bulk Organizing of Surveys
May 30 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
WordPress plugin updates. Survey WordPress plugin has been fixed with contributions from the WordPress community.
Better Browse Responses. Ability to choose which questions to display in columns on the Overview Page and Browse Responses page.
PDF improvement. Custom Matrix now appear correctly in PDF print documents
PDF improvement. Question […]
New Survey Features: Cross-tab Reports, SPSS
May 30 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Cross Tab Reports updated. Can now select separate questions for horizontal and vertical options.
SPSS Export. Improved to include piped questions.
SPSS Export now zips large files.
Search page improved to show the correct number of results.
“Please Select” added to table of dropdown menus.
See the entire change log of […]
The New New Guy
May 28 2008 by Derek ScruggsUntil about two minutes ago, my mini-bio at the bottom of these posts said I was “the new guy.” Today I’m happy to announce that we have a new “new guy.” A few weeks ago we announced that we were looking for a new account manager/tech support rep. We got a lot of great […]
Link Love from AssociatePrograms.com
May 27 2008 by Derek ScruggsWoke up this morning and saw this awesome review from AssociatePrograms.com:
After seeing all the options I realised SurveyGizmo is much more than just a simple survey tool. It has powerful research and data tools that go well beyond my needs and knowledge. But the beauty of SurveyGizmo is that I can still easily use […]
Derek Scruggs, Internet Entrepreneur, joins SurveyGizmo
May 21 2008 by Robin SeidnerWell, really Derek has been lurking around the office for a bit now, impressing us all with his unicycling skills. But, now, we’ve got the official paperwork so we’re announcing it to the world.
Derek takes on the role of VP of Sales and Business Development for SurveyGizmo, and we couldn’t be happier to have him […]
Facebook: Are you a SurveyGizmo Fan yet?
May 20 2008 by Robin SeidnerFor all you Facebook folks, we’ve recently added a SurveyGizmo product page on Facebook. So, now you can become a fan of your favorite online survey software tool.
We’ll be using that page to also let you know about upcoming webinars and other events we’ll be at, plus, you can post to The Wall any comments […]
Colorado entrepreneur Bill Flagg makes strategic investment in Web 2.0 survey company SurveyGizmo
May 5 2008 by Robin SeidnerMay 5, 2008, Boulder, Colorado – SurveyGizmo, an online survey, data collection and analysis tool today announced a strategic investment in the company by Bill Flagg, president and former co-owner of RegOnline, the online event registration company. Proceeds from the investment will be used by SurveyGizmo to expand staffing to meet the demands of a […]
Customer innovations: Educators use online surveys for student tests and quizzes
May 2 2008 by Robin SeidnerSure, we created this great online survey software, but we certainly didn’t have any idea of all the ways that our customers would use it. Customer suggestions about SurveyGizmo have been the seed of great new functions and features we’ve created. The same holds true for you — you can get great ideas for […]
Online help improvements on SurveyGizmo
May 1 2008 by Robin SeidnerFor the amount of help-related content we have on SurveyGizmo.com, we’ve been hearing from you now that it can be difficult to find the particular help you need to answer questions about how to make your online surveys smarter. So, as a first step to helping you find that content better, we’ve changed the internal […]
Reasons to switch to SurveyGizmo - we asked our customers
April 30 2008 by Robin SeidnerWe sometimes get asked by new customers to help them “sell” SurveyGizmo into their company. Meaning, they are sold on us, but, others on staff are using some other online survey tool — one that makes this person crazy because it just can’t provide what we can — and they need what SurveyGizmo’s got. They […]
New Survey Features: TURF Analysis Report, Accessibility Improvement, More Survey Piping
April 30 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Merge codes: You can now display an entire table question with a single merge code.
Action logging. Survey actions now record success and errors and can be viewed in the Browse Responses screen. This includes ExactTarget and SalesForce integration.
Continuous sum. It’s now possible to have an “Other” […]
New Survey Features: Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
April 23 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Bug fix. PDF report character set improvements.
Lots of behind the scene improvements in how customers interact with SurveyGizmo.
Old contact groups now display properly in survey reports.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
Orange County Register Builds Adobe Flex App on Survey API
April 4 2008 by Derek ScruggsOne thing we haven’t talked about as much as we probably should is our Survey API. They SurveyGizmo API Version 1.0 allows you to query our infrastructure and retrieve responses as well as perform a few operations on the survey itself. This is how our WordPress survey plugin works. The survey API Version 2.0, available […]
New Survey Features: Survey to SalesForce.com integration, Spanish translation of unsubscribe, Survey Export Filtering
April 2 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Export filtering. csv/Excel survey response exports now have access to filtering exactly like reports.
Spanish translation of unsubscribe and CAN-SPAM footers now available. Thanks for the translation from our customer Webtools.com
Resubscribes. Unsubscribed contacts in Email Invites can now be manually resubscribed.
Randomize continuous sum questions. Now possible to […]
New Tech Meetup Demo
April 1 2008 by Derek ScruggsTonight I did a demo of SurveyGizmo at the Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup. I was fortunate to get a few laugh lines, but the credit really goes to Scott for putting together some nice screen shots and helping me work out exactly what to present.
A typical client demo or webinar can go on for […]
Press Release: Beaches Habitat and SurveyGizmo Team Up to Pre-Qualify Homeowners
March 31 2008 by Derek ScruggsHow can a housing assistance nonprofit qualify and serve more clients without wasting the time and raising false hopes of those who don’t qualify?
The answer is clear to Beaches Habitat, explains Deborah Testa, website coordinator. We have many applications in which we can use SurveyGizmo’s user-friendly website tools to create our own surveys and […]
SalesForce integration documentation
March 26 2008 by Derek ScruggsFYI, this is just a quick note to let you know we’ve added a new section about SalesForce integration to our tutorials.
We Made the Times!
March 25 2008 by Derek ScruggsWell, the GTD (Getting Things Done) Times, that is. Below is the video interview of Scott and I taken just after our Core Conversation at South by South West about GTD.
If you are not familiar with GTD we highly recommend you take a look into it (GTD Times is a good place to get […]
SurveyGizmo’s New Digs & Open House
March 16 2008 by Scott McDanielSurveyGizmo has grown up and left for a house of its own.
Have a look at SurveyGizmo’s new digs! We’ve been growing like crazy and it was time for some more square footage. When we found this stand alone office (a converted craftsman-style house) we knew it was perfect for us. We’ve have 4 times the […]
TECH Cocktail Boulder
March 13 2008 by Derek ScruggsRight before heading to Austin, we were fortunate enough to do a demo at TECH Cocktail Boulder. Here’s a nice writeup of the event, and below is some video. Our piece starts at about 2:49. I had a heck of a cold that night and was about to lose my voice.
SxSW: Returning with Renewed Vigor!
March 11 2008 by Christian VanekScott, Derek and I went down to Austin this last week to attend the interactive portion of SxSW. For us, it’s a bit of an anniversary and a time to reflect on what we have done over the last year — as well one heck of a shindig.
This year was no exception. The highlights […]
New Survey Features: Email Invites Export, Email Attachments, Better Survey Logic
March 5 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Survey Email Invite contact export. Ability to download bounces, unsubscribes and survey status to Excel.
Survey source report. A new option for Summary Reports to show all referring websites to your survey and the number of responses.
Now able to reorder questions within Custom Groups.
Improved “Add-as-Needed” reporting
Calendar pop-ups […]
New Survey Features: Many new Survey Templates, Account Uploads Increased, Merge Code Wizard
February 27 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Feature Upgrade. New survey creation page.
New survey question templates added. See below:
Survey template : Online Survey Panel Signup
Survey template : Focus Group Signup
Survey template : Product Pricing Survey
Survey template : Job Application; basic job application
Survey template : Job Application; job application with resume upload
Survey template […]
New Survey Features: ExactTarget and SalesForce Survey Integration Improvements, Reporting Upgrades
February 20 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
ExactTarget and SalesForce integration UI. Minor tweaks to make the interface easier.
Team UI improvement. Minor tweaks to make Team permissions easier.
Overflow UI improvement. When over your response limit, a message now informs you.
Logic flags for survey builder. Red text now appears to indicate logic for […]
Email Invitations 2.0
February 13 2008 by Christian VanekWe are happy to announce the successful launch of SurveyGizmo’s New Email Invitation & Reminder Tool!
In 2007 we saw a huge interest in our old email invitation tool. Many marketers, researchers, educators and agencies all rely on email invitations as their primary technique for driving survey responses.
New Survey Features: New Survey Email Invitation Tool, Page Jumping/Skipping
February 13 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
New Email Invite Tool. New features include improved user interface, improved work flow, unsubscribes, bounces, graphing, spam analyzer, rolled up statistics, merge code helper and more.
Reporting upgrade. New filtering option “Does not contain.”
Page Jumping improvement. Simple Page Jumping indicator now shows your settings on hover.
Reporting upgrade. […]
SXSW Blogroll
February 7 2008 by Derek Scruggs Like last year and the year before that, I’m offering up the unofficial SXSW blogroll.
If you have a blog and want in on the fun, sign up for it here (scroll down to where it says “Join The SXSW Blogroll”).
Displaying the SXSW blogroll on your site
In the meantime, you can add the blogroll […]
ExactTarget Documentation
February 6 2008 by Derek ScruggsLately we’ve been getting a lot of interest in our ExactTarget module, which is basically just an ExactTarget-specific implementation of our API.
So much interest, in fact, that we thought perhaps we should, you know, document how it works. So, without further ado, here’s our ExactTarget Integration Tutorial.
New Survey Features: Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
February 6 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Logic flags for survey builder. Red text now appears to indicate logic is applied to question.
Bug fix. Appendices now appear in Excel export.
Upgrade. Excel exports no longer limited to 255 characters per cell.
Fewer additions this week because of company meeting.
See the entire change log of survey software […]
New Survey Features: Scheduled Survey Reports, Date Filters, Speed Improvements
January 30 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Apostrophes in email addresses are now acceptable within our application
Scheduled reports. You can now rerun reports on a scheduled basis–hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. Released for Enterprise customers.
Scheduled emailing of PDF Reports. You can now email up to 5 people a PDF version of the report with custom […]
New! Online Survey Software Training by SurveyGizmo
January 29 2008 by Scott McDaniel Evaluating SurveyGizmo?
Want to develop your survey skills?
Improve your ROI?
Try our free webinars.
After a lot of customer requests we are bringing out SurveyGizmo user training webinars and demos. Whether you are evaluating a purchase of SurveyGizmo and want to see what all the fuss is about, or you want to […]
New Survey Features: Survey Responses in PDF, Embeddable Survey Reports
January 23 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Responses in PDF: Responses can now be downloaded and printed in PDF format. Enterprise only.
New Report Formats: Summary reports are now available in Word and PDF formats. Pro and Enterprise only
Reporting Feature Update: After-the-fact duping of reports is improved
Bug fix: “Other” responses to multiple choice questions will now […]
New Survey Features: Private Survey Domains, Survey Responses CSV Exports, Customizable Report Designs
January 16 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Script action is no longer as picky about syntax.
Private domains URL’s remain consistent.
Private domains will remember if a person has already taken survey. Will give survey respondents choice of editing his/her survey or starting over.
Server speed is improved.
Piped values now show up in reports.
Invite merge codes have […]
SurveyGizmo listed in Idealware Survey Software Guide/Blog
January 16 2008 by Christian VanekFirst let me tell you, Google Alerts are a *wonderful* thing. Today for example Google sent me a link to a short blog article/guide that compares four survey tools for not-for-profit users. The guide is quite brief and concise — well worth a look.
The blog post was on Idealware who, in their own […]
Press release: SurveyGizmo poised for extensive growth in 2008
January 14 2008 by Cheri WalshExpanded client base plus 3rd party platform integration fuel growth
Boulder, Colorado; Cambridge, Massachusetts – SurveyGizmo, an online survey and data collection company, today announced their 2007 results, showing year-over-year customer growth of more than 500%. “We’re really pleased at how quickly SurveyGizmo has been embraced by the online survey market,” said Scott McDaniel, CEO of […]
New Survey Features: TURF Simulator, Survey Responses CSV Export Improvements
January 9 2008 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
A TURF Simulator has been added for enterprise users. This calculates un-duplicated reach for multiple response questions.
Report Titles you can now use Option Titles in your reports for Table Questions.
CSV Export has been improved to show table a question’s top-level question and columns.
See the entire change log […]
New Survey Features: Email Invites, Matrix Questions, Survey Export
December 19 2007 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Invite Testing feature has been improved, you can now send a test to 1-3 people, including real merge data selecting randomly from your list.
Matrix Questions can now be edited while the survey is launched without ‘hiding’ existing response data.
CSV Export has been improved to show table a question’s […]
An Independent Review
December 19 2007 by Christian VanekToday, we stumbled upon a great review of SurveyGizmo on a blog about marketing research technology. Mark Kupferman goes into great detail about us (actually, it might be even better than the guide one our own website!) starting with this statement:
“SurveyGizmo is among the most easy to use, best priced, feature packed internet survey […]
New Survey Features: Progress Bar, Survey Linked From
December 11 2007 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Progress Bar feature has been improved to understand Show/When and hidden pages.
Linked From has been added to the CSV Export, showing who referred the person to you surveys.
See the entire change log of survey software improvements.
New Survey Features: SalsForce Integration, Foldering, API, Piping
December 7 2007 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
SalesForce.com beta integration module is now available for Enterprise customers.
Menu Show/Hide drop down menus now properly re-hide hidden questions when the value is changed.
Team Foldering has been added to the main survey list and dashboard
New API functions SubmitSurvey and GetSurvey have been added to the API
Side-by-Side Export An […]
Five Guiding Principles of Good Survey Design
November 26 2007 by Ed Halteman - A SurveyGizmo Survey ExpertI’m back with some accepted best practices that I promised from my article Surveys for Fun or Profit? You may have already seen the “Top Ten Survey Best Practices” list that Christian Vanek and I delivered at a free SurveyGizmo Webinar at the end of September. If not, I encourage you to check it out. […]
Google + SurveyGizmo, Part 2: Integration
November 13 2007 by Christian VanekTwo weeks ago we wrote a post describing how to pass information into SurveyGizmo from Google Adwords. Very nifty! *This week* we are going to pass information from SurveyGizmo into Google Analytics. Even niftier, huh?
Why would we want to do this? Well, Google Analytics is a very powerful (and free) web analytics […]
Google + SurveyGizmo, Part 1: Adwords
November 8 2007 by Christian VanekIn the past two months we have received a huge number of questions concerning Google and SurveyGizmo integration. We’ve gotten so many, in fact, that we decided to write a three-part article that shows everyone how to do just that.
This week: Part 1 - Tracking Keywords and Ad Type from Adwords
Next week: Part 2 - […]
New Survey Features: Menus, Quizzes, Piped Value Exporting
October 30 2007 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
.info is now valid email extension for our lead filtering (sorry .info people!).
Menu Questions (drop downs and select lists) have been greatly improved.
Foldering has been added to the main survey lists in SurveyGizmo (just click on the folder icons)
Tally Quizzes have been added to SurveyGizmo!
Progress bars display their […]
New Survey Features: Quiz Scoring, Custom Survey Scripting
October 26 2007 by Brittany HeidtkeNew survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Major Release in Progress: we are currently working on a large release, so the new feature roster will seem a little lighter for the next few weeks.
Quiz Scoring: There is now a new merge code for QuizScoring that will let you show which questions a respondent got wrong.
Short […]
Top Ten Best Survey Practices Webinar - Slides, Recording and Q&A
October 9 2007 by Scott McDanielThanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar “Top Ten Survey Best Practices.” Here is the follow-up info we promised.
Slides in PowerPoint format:
Top Ten Survey Best Practices.ppt
Webinar Recording:
Streaming Flash Player
Windows Media - 37 meg - right-click to Save as…
AVI - 83 meg - right-click to Save as…
Selected Q&A
What is a good way […]