need help with online survey design?

TAPPING INTO THE WISDOM OF OTHERS

Need help with an online survey? Wondering what your customers or clients think about your products or services? Wondering what your employees feel about working for you? Need to collect input from many different sources about an important issue? Trying to set strategic direction in a complex and changing environment and want to know what key stakeholders think about the future? Perhaps you are an evaluator with a need to collect object feedback on a program, product or service. Or you are assessing training needs, designing a meeting or conference, testing a new concept or just finding the location for your next family reuinion. For any of these needs and more, online surveys have become an effective, inexpensive tool that allows you to quickly collect input, analyse it and use it to help shape decisions.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NEW ONLINE SURVEY TECHNOLOGY

But what if this is a one-time event for you? What if you are busy running a business? A non-profit? A government agency? A small coop? And what if you don't have the time, the expertise or the inclination to design a survey from scratch or figure out how to access the many survey service providers. And what if your organization isn't big enough to have people on staff that you can assign this to. This is where I come in... I have had an account with Zoomerang, the world's largest online survey software provider, for many years. Over those years I have figured out how to use that service to the max. And when Zoomerang runs out of tricks to respond to client needs, I download the data to Excel and play with it until the clients gets what he or she wants. And furthermore, I love doing this! I may not be a computer nerd, but I do plead guilty to being a survey nerd! If you aren't, and you don't have one at your beck and call, then we can probably work together. I'll do the nerdy stuff, you get to focus on what you do best.

Many of my clients are consultants who have no desire to learn how to do online surveys and have no desire to open an account with the big survey providers. But they do have their clients who want to include a survey in an assignment that they are working on. What can they do? Call or e-mail Al.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE WORK THAT I HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS IN YOUR SITUATION

I have designed and deployed 100s of surveys for clients on a multitude of topics. Chances are I have already designed a survey that is very close to what you are looking for. If I have, we may just have to tweak it here and there to make it fit. If it saves me time, it saves you money! If I have a survey in my collection that fits your needs, we can have it up and running in a few days for $500 or less! To check out some of the categories of surveys that I have already developed, visit my survey website at www.sequussurveys.com .

If I do not have a survey in my system that is a perfect match, we can start from scratch. I will tell you in advance how much it will cost. You decide if you want to proceed.

FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS TO SEEING YOUR SURVEY ON THE NET

If you think we should do business, follow these simple steps...

You email me a description of your situation or call me.
If I think I can help you, I will get back to you with a proposal. (If I don't think I can help, I will let you know immediately.)
If you accept the proposal, I will get a draft of your first online questionnaire to you for your consideration. It will be live and online and you will be testing it as if you were someone asked to complete it.
You will get back to me with whatever changes, additions, deletions you want and I will send you a second draft. We keep doing this until you are happy (or one of us gives up in frustration, which has never happened yet but there is always a first time.).
Once approved, the survey is launched! This means that either I deploy it out to a list of persons that you provide, or you send it out yourself along with instructions that I give you. We might supplement either method with a link to a website, an announcement in a newsletter or some other way for a broader public to access it.
As the results start to flow in, you will be able to see them through a special, private code. When the time is up, we send you a final report on the results (and you send me some money).

See you in cyberspace.