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March 8, 2018
Guide On Creating GDPR Compliant Surveys

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not far away and will place a strong burden on organisations to protect data! If you use online surve...

December 1, 2017
GDPR Templates - For Compliance With Data Collection

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes law on 25th May 2018, and the clock is ticking. With only a few months to go, SmartSurvey can pr...

October 19, 2017
5 Ways Of Preventing Questionnaire Fatigue

If you are one of the many companies using online surveys to keep up with consumer trends, it’s important that you are aware of questionnaire fatigue...

October 3, 2017
Importance Of Conducting Patient Satisfaction Surveys

Today, more and more healthcare organisations, clinics, and GPs are conducting patient satisfaction surveys. User-friendly online surveys offer a simp...

September 13, 2017
The Beginners Guide To Designing A Survey

Surveys have become a staple tool for obtaining data from a variety of audiences. To obtain actionable data and achieve your stated objectives, it is...

August 15, 2017
How To Implement A Customer Satisfaction Survey

Customer satisfaction is essential for organisations to grow in today’s fast changing business environment. Gathering feedback via surveys can be a po...

July 11, 2017
The Pros And Cons Of Using Open Ended Questions

Open ended questions allow respondents taking your survey to include more information, giving you, the researcher, more useful, contextual feedback. O...

May 10, 2017
Finding The Right Respondents For Your Online Survey

Finding the right survey participants for your online research can be the key to its success. However, it’s not that simple. Collecting data that will...

March 17, 2017
The Value Of Market Research

If you want to keep up with trends in the market and stay one step ahead of the competition, then you need to be doing market research! It’s beneficia...

March 10, 2017
Customer Satisfaction Surveys - Why They Are Important?

Many organisations are aware that customer satisfaction is the most important asset they have. However, gathering feedback from consumers on a regular...

February 21, 2017
How Online Questionnaires Can Improve Your Business

Online questionnaires have become a vital addition to any B2B and B2C marketing toolkit, helping to achieve significant improvements in business. Surv...

February 7, 2017
What Is An Online Questionnaire?

An online questionnaire often appears on web pages whilst people are surfing the internet. Nowadays, people are very used to being asked to fill in a...

November 10, 2016
The Importance Of Keeping Survey Responses Confidential

When conducting online surveys, confidentiality is always an important consideration. Online survey responses must be kept confidential and within the...

October 28, 2016
The Benefits Of Using Quality Consumer Panels For Online Research

Businesses have to use all the tools at their disposal to ensure customers are happy with the product and service they receive. Although online resear...

October 20, 2016
Measure Employee Loyalty By Creating An Employee Loyalty Survey

An employee loyalty survey is an essential tool for organisations to measure the extent of employee allegiance and to identify areas where improvement...

August 1, 2016
7 Tips To Help With Your Questionnaire Design

You might think that questionnaire design is rather simple and easy; after all, it’s just a list of questions right? However, a proper questionnaire s...

July 20, 2016
How Patient Feedback Can Help Drive Improvement

Let’s not beat around the bush; gathering patient feedback is an essential element of continuous improvement! From GP practices to the emergency depar...

July 4, 2016
How To Get The Right Survey Audience For Your Online Questionnaire

Do you need to reach a specific survey audience, but don’t have the people in your address book? Would guaranteed responses help you with your researc...

June 29, 2016
The Benefits Of Using Skip Logic

In designing surveys, the use of skip logic, also referred to as conditional branching or routing, is used when researchers change the course that res...

June 15, 2016
How IKEA Increased Response Rates With SMS Surveys

IKEA is the world’s largest furniture retailer offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at affordable prices. They...

March 23, 2016
Survey Data Analysis – How To Get More Insight

Survey data analysis can help give you a better understanding of the decisions your customers make and increase the success of long-term business plan...

February 29, 2016
Travel Industry Customer Satisfaction Surveys

The hospitality and travel industry rely mainly on customer satisfaction reviews and reputation for securing business. With the growth of social media...

September 12, 2013
10 Features To Look For In A Survey Tool

When it comes to creating surveys for respondents, whether it is for the workplace, or a general topic survey, you have to use the right survey tools...

June 24, 2013
The Importance Of Creating Questionnaire Welcome Pages And Introductions

An engaging and informative introduction page is one of the most crucial aspects of questionnaire design, yet often one of the most neglected. A quali...

May 10, 2013
The Benefits of Adding a Comments Box to Your Survey Design

Within your survey design, you should use the option of including a survey comment box. Some people would only add one at the end of the survey, but y...

March 18, 2013
When To Use Cross Tabulation For Analysing Data

Cross tabulation for analysing data is very important, but only if done the right way and at the right time. Essentially, it measures how different va...

February 6, 2013
5 Tips To Consider When Selecting Your Target Audience

Should you wish to set up an online questionnaire, you have to first understand who your target audience is. These are the kind of people you want to...

January 21, 2013
The Benefits Of Online Survey Images

If you intend to create an online questionnaire, there are many benefits to adding images to it. Online survey images can enhance the experience of th...

January 2, 2013
The Importance Of Providing Respondents With An Opt Out Option

Different types of surveys are used to learn opinions and recommendations of target groups on products or services. There are different questions and...

December 5, 2012
Choosing The Right Time To Conduct A Questionnaire

When the correct time to conduct a questionnaire is chosen, the effectiveness is undoubtedly achieved to the maximum. Questionnaires conducted when th...

November 23, 2012
The Benefits Of Survey Scoring

When respondents to online surveys are asked to rate things against a scale, the data obtained can be converted into useful values by means of survey...

November 19, 2012
The Importance Of Anonymity In Employee Surveys

Among surveys conducted to yield data on diverse aspects of products, services etc., employee survey types are important as they establish the satisfa...

October 29, 2012
The Benefits Of Including Ratings Scales In Satisfaction Surveys

In customer satisfaction surveys which are important tools for companies to assess how successful they are with customers, rating scales are included...

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