2 Free Online Survey Tools
This week I had to prepare a survey to be presented to our clients. I have created a draft of the survey long time ago and after some comments- the official launch had to take place. I had a large list of sites, offering free online surveys, yet all of them had pros and cons….so I had to choose carefully. Below I will present both QuestionPro and SurveyPirate.
http://questionpro.com/
This is a really professional tool for online marketeers. Honestly, it allows you to create all kind of survey questions that you may need in a general survey. Moreover, there is branching logic included + options for 1 page vs many pages design.
A thing that I particularly liked is the way that you create Likert scale questions by using single-choice questions by setting them up through the settings pane. This saved me a lot of time and brought peace to my work place 
Combine with the variety of question types that are available the tool allowed me to create the survey as I liked it, including even fields validation (believe it or not – many other tools does not have this).
The reports options are different. There is a pretty good online overview for those of you that do not like playing with SPSS, Stata and other statistical soft. Still, there is option for export to any other useful type of files – from csv to .sav .
In their Free version QuestionPro allow unlimited responses to 1 survey. They give you a short link to the survey. It looks like branev.questionpro.com. A maximum of 10 questions is implemented, yet in many cases this is the maximum that the users will tolerate (it’s feedback for free, after all).
http://surveypirate.com/This is tool is really visually appealing. It stole my heart at the first moment that I saw it. There is narrow variety of question-types options, yet the presented ones are really well implemented. I did not like the fact that there was no way to create an “Other”-textbox +field for writing. Still it does not mean that the quizzes there are really well looking and functional
SurveyPirate has nearly the same report functionality as the site above which is really cool. It lacks the direct overview, but this is not so painful in many cases. The tool allows unlimited responses/questions/surveys and everything is “cheaper than stolen” as the motto of the site says. I would recommend it to anyone that wants to use such a tool but does not want to get too deep into adjusting validations, branching logic, etc.
In the end of this post, I would like to share a link to a very interesting survey tool. It can be installed virtually at any site and allows the creation of your own surveys directly from your hosting. It’s free, open-source and cool – it’s LimeSurvey – the open source survey application.
I will be glad to hear your comments about these tools and any other ones that you have used.
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FYI: not every online survey tool handles multiple styles of questions. Zoomerang does. The text import feature that auto-configures questions is pretty handy too.
http://snurl.com/zoomtypes
I know this, yet the mentioned to do and in a very good way.
About Zoomerang – I had a look but it’s not so nice in my view….still I may give it a try in some future research.