New tutorials now online

Want to know the first mistake many companies make when designing surveys? Are you looking for a nifty trick when testing a survey? Confused about how SurveyGizmo’s new filter tool works when you’re creating a report?

We’ve added a couple new tutorials this week: The “Sweet Sixteen” Tips For Building Online Surveys and Creating a Report: The Filtering Tool. We invite you to check them out for answers to the above questions — and plenty of additional tips and tactics for creating effective online surveys.

SurveyGizmo goes south by southwest

Because Austin is the place to be in early March, we’re hitting the road and heading to SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest). The top interactive folks will be there, and it’s a a great place to network and pick up ideas. We’re hoping to meet up with some of you; getting your feedback is invaluable and will help us create a better product.

If you’re going to be in Austin March 9-13, drop us an email! We’d love to meet you in person.

Keep track of new features

We’re constantly making improvements to our product and our site, and now you can keep track of those improvements — at a glance. If you have been away from SurveyGizmo for a few days or (gasp) weeks, check out our New Feature Roster. This list will help you catch up and see what has improved in our software. The most recent stuff will always be first!

Announcing: SurveyGizmo and ExactTarget partnership

We’re really excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with ExactTarget to offer highly integrated email and survey solutions for ExactTarget customers. This level of integration is groundbreaking. Sure, there have been integrated tools before, but now you have the full power of both an enterprise level survey tool combined with an enterprise level Email Service Provider to send invitations, track responses, subscribe respondents to newsletters and trigger auto-responders from a survey.

Here are just some of the cool things ExactTarget customers can now do:
• Add custom survey links to email campaigns, and pass in subscriber identifiers such as email addresses or subscriber IDs
• Keep track of individual responses and email reminders
• Add subscribers and update ExactTarget list attributes from within a survey
• Trigger auto-responders (eg. a thank-you to a survey respondent)

It’s easy to activate these features via your SurveyGizmo account page. Scroll to the bottom, check the ExactTarget checkbox and enter your SurveyGizmo username and password. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at support@sgizmo.com.