If you didn’t have a chance to catch the webinar on Wednesday, we have good news. The first, is that we’ll be holding 2 more webinars, an early one (great for folks in the US, UK, or European Union) and a later one (great for folks in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific). [...]

On Wednesday, March 10 (a week from yesterday), we will be holding an in-depth webinar on how to optimize your integration of MailChimp and SurveyGizmo.
Mario, our stellar client services engineer, will be co-hosting the webinar along with Dan from MailChimp. During the webinar, they will go over how to use the SurveyGizmo one-click integration [...]

Update: Beta Application Now Closed
Due to your overwhelming response, we have closed the Beta application. There were 798 responses for 150 spots in less than two days. We would like to extend a giant THANK YOU to everyone that applied, and to those who didn’t quite make it to the application in time — [...]

Do you routinely send out a customer satisfaction survey? If you are not doing one yet, you definitely need to start. If you are sending one out already — excellent work!
No matter if you have a survey running already or not, you’ll definitely want to check out the tutorial we just added. The [...]

Chad! And his survey-logic visualizer!
His tool for visualizing survey logic impressed us all, so he received the coveted Lego AT-AT. Congratulations, Chad!
When the dust cleared, and Lab Week concluded, the SurveyGizmo employees had to choose between an awesome interactive tutorial system, a super new mascot, a rad global spellcheck, and a stellar tool for [...]

Two weeks ago Christian Vanek, one of our co-founders, attended The Market Research Event put on by IIR (Institute for International Research) in Las Vegas. He came back with a number of amazing take-aways, and one of the most significant was within the last year the market research community has embraced using online social communities [...]

Here at SurveyGizmo, we’re excited to be holding the first ever SurveyGizmo Lab Week! Our inspiration came from watching the awesome results that have come from Google Labs and MailChimp Labs. We tasked the developers and designer with choosing a project to work on for the week. The only guideline was that their project must [...]

Whew… it’s been crazy couple of weeks here on the new feature front. Not only did we add an easy post to Twitter integration and a new Find & Replace feature, we’ve now just added an integration into MailChimp!
MailChimp is used for email marketing and email list management and it makes sending out emails and [...]

SurveyGizmo is happy to announce a brand new feature: Find and Replace! You’ll find the option under Edit Survey > Find & Replace for our Pro, Enterprise, and Dedicated customers. So what does this new feature do? Okay, that question is too easy. How about, So how does this new feature work?

Entering in your search [...]

Do you love Twitter as much as we do? Well, we have some exciting news to share! We just pushed out a new feature for EVERYONE.

Now, with a single click, you can send your survey to Twitter and get all your follower’s to take it (and hopefully re-tweet it). This is all done from [...]

We’ve offered the ability to schedule the automatic re-run of some of our Reports for quite a while now for our Enterprise and Dedicated customers, and we’ve even included the ability to email an individual when that report is re-run. Well, we’ve officially stepped up the offering by including scheduling and emailing for our Exports [...]

Today SurveyGizmo has an outage for ~35 minutes. This outage affected all of our services and was caused by a hardware failure in our Denver data center. We are still working with our data center partner to get an explanation as to why the backups did not kick in automatically. This [...]

Dear Gizmo User,
Starting this week, SurveyGizmo will be migrating our data and services to a new data center located in Denver, Colorado. For the most part this entire migration will take place behind the scenes — no need to change your survey deployment plans.
Our new data center is part of a larger change [...]

SurveyGizmo is proud to announce the release of a major improvement for mobile web browsers viewing SurveyGizmo surveys! Many people are aware of the newer full-fledged browsers in the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Google’s Android platform. Also, mobile phone users who install the Opera Mini browser tend to support JavaScript, Stylesheets, and all the [...]

If your enterprise uses McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5.0i please be sure your IT department regularly updates the application with patches from McAfee. It’s not enough just to update virus definitions; the core VirusScan software must be updated too!
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5 without updated patches contains a bug that will occasionally cause IE users to [...]

We are really excited to announce the roll out of our new Free Student Account!
We have a large number of students who use us for various reasons from Senior Thesis research to Dissertation research to just wanting to send out polls to friends. The new account now allows them to do this completely free [...]

First it was the Question Library, and now SurveyGizmo is happy to announce another heavily requested feature: Export Survey to PDF!

Available for Pro and above account levels, this feature is found under the PUBLISH tab:
Export Survey to PDF (BETA)

And in true SurveyGizmo fashion, our developers went a step farther and made the PDF editable, so [...]

Have you ever noticed a large number of partial completions of your survey? Have you ever wanted to know what you could fix in order to get people to finish your survey?
Well, we have a fantastic answer for you! If you have an Enterprise or above level account, you now have the ability to run [...]

Hey Everyone!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that tomorrow several updates to the API will be going live at 5pm MT. We are adding five new functions to the API — and making several small modifications to the existing calls. Keep an eye on the API documentation page at 5pm on [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week:

New Feature: Question Library added
New Feature: Page Falloff report added, providing two graphs of the same data (funnel type and ‘difference’) – Enterprise level
New Feature: Textbox questions have extreme left and extreme right label options
New Feature: In tables/matrices, you can now repeat the column headers every X number [...]

SurveyGizmo is happy to announce our newest feature, the Question Library.

This has been long sought after by many users so we decided to rally around the effort and get this one out. Your Survey Question Library is available at all paid plan levels.
Right out of the gate the question library includes [...]

Two days ago I convinced myself that the world would end tragically if I didn’t get my hands on the new Nintendo DSi (and I was right – I heard rumors of tornadoes dying and seas calming as I signed my name on the receipt).
So I got home and immediately downloaded the free DSi Web [...]

After many requests and some slots opening up in our Development Team’s time, we were able to roll out a very cool new feature for our Enterprise account users. We now have the ability to schedule Email Invitations to be sent out on specific dates, as well as the ability to schedule Reminder and [...]

After many requests, we have now added one of the coolest CAPTCHA question types out there. A CAPTCHA is an image that is displayed that requires the participant to enter the letters they see in the image in order to continue to the next page of the survey.
We’re using a service called reCAPTCHA, and the [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week:

New Feature: Individual Partial Responses can now be set to complete.
New Feature: The login action now has an option to “mask” the input with an asterisk (*).
New Feature: Ranking tables now have the option to “rank the top X” by leaving some column labels blank. Reports also reflect [...]

Be sure to add a comment below about your own experience with incentives, and be entered to win some fresh Kona coffee!
In my last post (Increasing Response Rates: Part I), I talked about increasing your survey response rates. I suggested that you:

Tell your respondents you will share the results with them.
Identify allies who will urge [...]

We’ve been growing our customer base like crazy these past few months, and since we pride ourselves in the support we bring to our customers, we have been finding ourselves in need of a few more Customer Support Managers. So without further ado, I’d like to introduce our 2 newest Customer Support Ninjas — [...]

Update: Our famed quiz guru – Mario Lurig (also known for his account management skills) will be hosting this webinar. So be sure to check it out!
We are constantly trying to think of new topics for webinars, and since many of you have been asking about quizzes lately, we decided to add a webinar designed [...]

Sometimes digging up the past leads to a better future. This is one of those cases where a feature that once existed was replaced with a simpler and easier to use version. As the tool grew and documentation improved, more and more users are looking for the advanced version once again.
In this case, I’m talking [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week

Table based ranking question. There are now two styles for ranking questions. This new style has been requested by many customers. It is now accessible to screen readers and keyboard navigation.
Bug fix. Survey editor page navigation bug fixed for IE6.
“None of the above” text mutual exclusivity in [...]

Have you ever wondered how to write one of our advanced show/when or show/hide rules? Or have you needed to make a rule based off of the answers to two or more questions and you weren’t sure how? Well, you’re in luck! We now have a full tutorial on advanced rule writing that will [...]

As some of you may or may not have heard, our developers have been hard at work creating a new and improved version of SurveyGizmo.
Right now we’re in the Seventh Inning stretch and want to know if there are any last-minute feature requests you’d like to sneak into Version 2.0. We’ve already collected a ton [...]

Thousands of new customers are flocking to SurveyGizmo every month and some of them are really big. Really, really big.
That’s fantastic and we are all very happy. Though, in order to handle the increased traffic from all the new users we decided to make some changes. Some big changes actually…
Last [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Quiz scores can now be reported on, even if on the Thank You page.
New Feature. Can now pipe from a single answer question (e.g.radio button, dropdown) to another question.
Speed of exporting large response sets (50,000+) to csv improved.
Non administrators now have the ability to change their own passwords [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Bug fix on Report exports. Table of dropdowns improved in the Excel, Word and PDF export.
Validation added to SPSS export wizard for variable names.
Greek characters now export to SPSS correctly.
Improved ranking question export.
Custom scripting API functions added. sgapiGetResponseBySGUID. sgapiTrimStr (improved to trim spaces on right [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

New Feature: Reminders and Thank You’s are now copied when you copy an Email Invitation.
New Feature: You can now search abandoned and deleted responses.
New Feature: You can now search by IP or referrer URL.
Several bug fixes for SPSS
Bug fix. You can now copy an Email Invitation while [...]

Update: We are now on a new and improved primary database cluster and everything is running smoothly.
In an effort to keep you informed, we’d like you to know our application server went down for 17 minutes and 30 seconds today, starting at approximately 5:30 EST. Within 60 seconds our development team was addressing the [...]

Have you ever wanted to get rid of the red asterisk on a required question? Or wanted to remove the bold question titles in your survey? Or have you ever wanted to make the page titles you create visible?
Well, we have been working very hard to bring you some much needed How-To Quick Tips. So [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Feature improvement. SurveyGizmo interface images improved.
Survey Question Editor. Design of survey Question Editor improved.

Survey Question Editor. Ability to change question types on the fly.
Major overhaul of SPSS export wizard: Ability to assign SPSS variable names. Ability to assign SPSS labels. Ability to change SPSS variable types during [...]

New 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 [...]

It’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 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 [...]

This 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 [...]

A 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 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 [...]

New 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 [...]

New 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 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 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 [...]

For 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 [...]

New 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 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.

New 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 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 added to SurveyGizmo this week.
Check out all the new survey templates that were added by logging into your account or creating a free account right now!

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 [...]

New 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 [...]

We 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 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. [...]

New 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 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 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 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 [...]

New 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 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 [...]

New 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 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 [...]

New 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 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 [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

New Popup Calendar: a new calendar is available that does not have ‘bleed through’ effects that the old version had. Your respondents can now enter dates with a click of the mouse.
Improved Page Jumping: surveys now track the page path that a respondant takes, allowing you to jump [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Survey Editing: you can now go back and edit surveys by clicking on the edit link (or sending the edit link to respondants)
SpellCheck: we have added SpellCheck to the Question Editor.
Team Management you can now manage teams of users, in effect creating ‘virtual accounts’ inside an Enterprise account.
Multiple [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

New question types! You can now choose a rating scale, star rating question, custom question group, custom matrix question in addition to the old favorites.
New actions! Send mobile text messages, display a quiz score, and take advantage of comprehensive integration with ExactTarget subscriber databases.
Reporting has more options than [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

SurveyGizmo is now Survey Accessible! We passed the check up and now comply with Section 508 in the Cynthia browser in CSS and HTML
We are now fully UTF-8 compliant and can support our non-english speaking customers.
Our new and improved Search Bar is now capable of searching Blog [...]

SurveyGizmo has nine more shiny new theme templates for your use. Add a little color to your life or go with something simpler. It’s all here. All of these templates can be configured on the Look & Feel Tab and include simple editable fields to modify the following

Logos: Add your logo into the header. [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Page Randomization – you can now randomize page order in addition to questions and question options!
New Action Type: Password Protection – you can now create a login page for your survey with our new self-expiring & single use password action.
New Option: You can now deactivate IP address storage [...]

We are happy to announce that SurveyGizmo finally supports non-English characters completely as of this past weekend. For those of you located or who survey outside of the US, this should be welcome news indeed!
Previously, certain sections of the SurveyGizmo application would “garble” non-English characters — making your surveys unattractive and unreadable. Thanks [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

New social networking features for iPoll. Now Polls can be shared with the world and voted up or down in popularity.
The image chooser question type now allows for multiple or single selections.
The edit in place for survey titles now correctly accepts apostrophes.

See the entire change log of [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

iPoll the lite weight polling application for the iPhone or other mobile browsers released.
Login / Password protected surveys feature released
Javascript embeddable iPolls released (but so far undocumented)
API improvements. You can now access survey response data through the API. Read more on the API tutorial page.

See the entire change [...]

Now that we let people upload images, we thought we should give you a fun way to use them!
The new Image Chooser question type displays several images and allows your respondents to pick an image of their choice by clicking on it. Here’s what it looks like:

We can see some great uses for this, [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Cool world map of survey data: Want to know where in the world your survey data is coming from? Check out the new graphic on a survey’s Overview page.
Embeded Surveys now report in real-time:A minor oversight of ours, several weeks ago we made all surveys real-time. We did [...]

Our New Feature Roster is packed with our enhancements to SurveyGizmo, but we want to make sure you don’t overlook a major new feature that many of you have requested: uploading files for use in your surveys. Now you can easily upload images, such as your company logo, and add them to your surveys. You’ll [...]

We’re happy to announce that you now have the ability to use PayPal to pay for an upgrade to your SurveyGizmo account. A few of you, especially our non-US customers, have had difficulty with credit card transactions not being accepted by our system, and we invite you to take advantage of this quick and easy [...]

Spread the word and make some cash! Many of you asked us for it, so here it is. Today we’re announcing the SurveyGizmo Affiliate Program, which lets you earn cash for your referrals. Anyone with a SurveyGizmo account — even a Free one — can direct people to our site through this program. And when [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Show/Hide now works with drop-down menus
Force Percent Formatting Major upgrade to percentage formatting. It now behaves much better and makes it more difficult to mis-enter data. It has also been added to tables of text boxes!
sgUID Get Variable: A new special ‘get string’ or ‘url’ variable has been [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Quizzes: You can now run quizzes (with automated scoring) in SurveyGizmo. Just click “Create Quiz” to get going!
New Action Type: Script Control: You can now write mini-scripts in SurveyGizmo that can change the way your survey, poll or quiz behaves — you can perform calculations, update question [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Email Invites Upgraded: We have made dozens of small upgrades to the email invite code. It now allows larger blasts and editing of your invites.
Also in email invites — if you forget to add a trackable survey link to your email the system will now warn you. [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Editable Error Message: You can now change the “error on your page” error message — a feature that was requested especially by those writing surveys in languages other than English.

See the entire change log of survey software improvements.

One of the ways in which SurveyGizmo stands out is its reporting capabilities, with eye-catching graphs, valuable filtering tools, and numerous exporting options. (And that’s just for starters.) In addition, reports now offer new options, including the ability to remove duplicate responses by IP address and rounding percentages to whole numbers.
These options are outlined in [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Report Options: Choose from additional options when running reports, including the ability to de-dupe responses and round off percentages.
Fancy Web 2.0 Features: We added a little AJAX goodness; you can edit survey titles on any page inline as well as inline delete on survey listing pages.

See the entire [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Export Feature: It’s now possible to export “partially” completed surveys into a CSV document.
Easy Page Hiding: You can now set a page to hide-itself based on a question on a previous page. This is different from page jumping and works great with checkbox questions where each checkbox toggles [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Email Invites additions to Results Page: The email body and subject are now printed on the results page for future reference.
Account Page: some bugs fixed on account page
Knocked out a bug causing occasional blank pages to be delivered in the survey editor (very annoying bug — we’re [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Embedable Survey Feeds: Now you can use JavaScript to embed a survey feed into a page. Then you schedule surveys to flow into the feed, allow you to change content without have to update your webpage
“None of the above” options sticks to the bottom: If you add a [...]

From time to time (okay, it’s actually on a consistent basis!), you send us questions regarding SurveyGizmo’s design features, tracking capabilities, reporting options and more. So we’ve gathered together the most frequently asked questions and posted them in an updated FAQ. If you want to know about system requirements, design customizations, publishing a survey, integrating [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

JavaScript Embed – big improvements: New JS embed code
improves the stability of embedded surveys as well as adding several
new features. JS embedded surveys now can have variables passed in from
the query string. Embedded survey sessions are now tracked with a
cookie which allows a lot more flexibility.
New question [...]

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: [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Exporting Upgrade: The export wizard format has been improved to allow easier analysis and external database importing.

See the entire change log of survey software improvements.

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 [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Reorder Questions Fix: You can now drag questions to empty pages that don’t already have survey questions – yeah!
Report Upgrade: Continuous Sum questions now have an improved Summary Report.

See the entire change log of survey software improvements.

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Report Fix: Creating filters that result in zero responses no longer time-out your report.
Report Upgrade: Reports on ranking questions now give you average ranks for each item.
New Question Type: “Custom Question Group” is now a new question type. It lets you create “repeat on demand” blocks of questions. [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

New Report: Combined Survey Report (lets you merge two surveys with overlapping questions into one report)
Feature: Forward-Only-Survey: You can now make a survey forward-only. The browser’s back button will not let respondents change answers.
Fix: “Other” options for checkboxes now require a text entry.

See the entire change log of [...]

New survey features added to SurveyGizmo this week.

Press Release: SurveyGizmo is now an integrated partner with ExactTarget!
New Feature: Reports are now available in Excel Format

See the entire change log of survey software improvements.

We’re excited to bring you our latest hot feature: the “friendly survey link.” The power is now in your hands; you have the ability to name your survey’s URL. No more seemingly random numbers must indicate which survey is yours. Instead, survey links can take the form of your company name (what we call your [...]

You asked for enhanced reporting tools — and we’ve responded. Last week we launched an entirely new reporting platform. Now you can save multiple reports in different ways, display data in eye-catching new graphs, and run reports while simultaneously working on a survey in SurveyGizmo.
Think we’re kidding about the eye-catching charts? Check this out:

If you [...]

We have a new basic Job Application survey template now for use. You can easily modify it to meet your specific needs. As always, you can find it listed under templates when you create a survey. If you haven’t created your account yet, try either our free account, or a 14 day trial of one [...]

We couldn’t help but notice all the searches for MySpace survey functionality. So here it is — online surveys and polls you can put on your MySpace page (or other difficult CMS systems)!
Want to see it in action? Here is an example of our contact form embedded into a MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/SurveyGizmo. [...]

SurveyGizmo – not just for surveys anymore.
This is the first of two how-to articles on using SurveyGizmo to create Contact Forms, Lead Gen Forms, Support Requests, Newsletter Signups, or any kind of custom form. SurveyGizmo makes a great all-purpose web form tool for embedding data-collection forms on your website. We use the term “survey” [...]

We have added new tools and tutorials to make it easier to build better email auto-responders for your surveys. With the Merge Helper and Email Merge Helper, you can incorporate values from your survey automatically into a survey triggered email auto-responder.
What can you use the Email Auto-responders for?

Notifying you of each survey taken and providing [...]

How many times have you wanted to quickly send out an invitation for a survey, then follow up with anyone who hasn’t finished it? How about emailing those who complete your survey to say ‘thank you’ or share final results with them?
Good news — we have just released a survey email invitation tool that lets [...]

This week we turned out two new customer requested features.
Email Validation (by DNS)
SurveyGizmo now goes a step further in email validation. Like most survey apps we used to just do simple format-checking for email validation. Now we have upgraded! Any question that collects email addresses will perform something called a “MX-lookup” (Mail-eXchange lookup) to [...]

We have some great news to share. We have installed a PHP accelerator called eAccelerator and it’s given us a real boost. We have seen a +40% increase in both the SurveyBuilder application and the speed of surveys to end users. Woo hoo! We are really happy about this and we’re sure you will be [...]

We pushed a few changes last night, some in response to bugs and some in response to user feedback.
We are trying out a change to the Survey Editor so you can now see the Edit/Copy/Delete Question buttons without hovering. We have always felt this page is a place a lot of survey tools could use [...]