So without any further ado, here are the most recent tips:

1. Integrate surveys into WordPress blog posts & web pages with SurveyGizmo’s WordPress Survey Plugin 

2. Blog your survey results – Sharing key insights can be an effective way to engage your customers, prospects, employees.. 

3. Enable Language Translation Links in your survey to allow respondents to choose their preferred language  

4. Spend time and effort to plan your survey – Bad information is worse than no information at all 

5. Save paper – Online Surveys offer many advantages over paper surveys  

If you can’t wait for the weekly update be sure to follow SurveyGizmo on twitter to get the new tip each day. You can find the compiled lists of the Survey Tip of the Day and additional online survey tips and suggestions here at the SurveyGizmo blog as well as links to helpful SurveyGizmo tutorials. If you have any survey tips you would like to share leave us a comment or send us an email, SurveyGizmo is all about feedback.

So without any further ado, here are the most recent tips: 

1. Alter the positioning of your logo, survey title, and page title with some quick copy & paste CSS code

2. A larger number of small incentives will likely bring a higher response rate than a smaller number of large incentives 

3. Use the Piping features to display previous answers in later questions 

4. When tweeting your survey keep the survey description & invite under 98 characters to allow enough room for the URL & retweets 

5. Add Language Translations through a simple Text/Translations Settings tab within your survey

If you can’t wait for the weekly update be sure to follow SurveyGizmo on twitter to get the new tip each day. You can find the compiled lists of the Survey Tip of the Day and additional online survey tips and suggestions here at the SurveyGizmo blog as well as links to helpful SurveyGizmo tutorials. If you have any survey tips you would like to share leave us a comment or send us an email, SurveyGizmo is all about feedback.

This is a fantastic question! We’ve been touting that we’re multi-lingual capable for awhile now, but how exactly do you create surveys in multiple languages and then let your survey takers take the surveys in their native language?

First, you’ll need an Enterprise level account. Then you’ll need to create your original survey, just like you normally would. Once you have all your questions set and ready to go, you’ll want to start adding the different versions of the survey in the various languages.

To do this, head over to the Text/Translations link and click on the Add a Language Button (Shown Below)

Select the first language you want to translate your survey to. Start typing out the survey in that language and when you’re done, remember to press save. Continue doing this until you have all the languages you want your users to choose from.

Now you’re almost all done! Next you need to give your survey takers the ability to pick which language they want to take your survey in on the first page of the survey.

This get’s a little tricky (but shouldn’t take you more than 2 minutes! So don’t worry.) That’s why our fabulous tutorial team has put together a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this (with great screen shots!)

Check out the Selecting Your Display Language tutorial and your survey is all set. It’s as simple as that!

So without any further ado, here are the most recent tips: 

1. SurveyGizmo is UTF-8 compliant, allowing you to build surveys in all languages 

2. To help increase response rates, turn your survey into a contest by offering participants an entry into a prize drawing 

3. Using the Ranking (Drag & Drop) Question Type lets your respondents rank a list of items in a visual and interactive manner

4. Ensure that you have removed those who have already responded from your reminder list

5. The ‘Remove Question Numbering’ feature allows you to toggle question numbers on or off  

If you can’t wait for the weekly update be sure to follow SurveyGizmo on twitter to get the new tip each day. You can find the compiled lists of the Survey Tip of the Day and additional online survey tips and suggestions here at the SurveyGizmo blog as well as links to helpful SurveyGizmo tutorials. If you have any survey tips you would like to share leave us a comment or send us an email, SurveyGizmo is all about feedback.

So what’s so cool about Majed’s survey? Well, he is catering to an Arab audience and needed to be able to get his text to read from right to left  and have everything written in Arabic fonts.  You’re probably thinking this is going to take him hours and hours of work and he’s pretty much out of luck.  Not to worry! SurveyGizmo can do both of these things with just a few changes to the CSS.  Because we give you the ability to go into the CSS and change things in your survey, all Majed had to do was add a single line to his CSS code and viola! And as for writing in Arabic as long as Majed’s keyboard was set to type Arabic, SurveyGizmo supports displaying the foreign characters properly. How cool is that!?!  Below are a few screen shots of Majed’s beautifully designed and easy to complete survey.

Majed also added some pretty cool show/hide triggers for the questions so his survey takers stay on the same page but only see one question at a time (so as not to overwhelm them). Nice job Majed!

Now let’s check out a survey Jeremy Feinstein from Empsight.com created.  Jeremy had a problem- he needed high level managers to fill out a questionnaire about their employees, but when he created an Excel spreadsheet and handed it out previously, he got a very low response rate.  This time he created it using SurveyGizmo’s Custom Group question type.  This allowed him to add various drop-down and checkbox questions to make a very professional (and much cooler than Excel) looking questionnaire. He also added some show/hide checkboxes at the bottom that allowed the survey takers to dynamically display instructions or job descriptions only when they needed to, without overwhelming them with all the information at once. Check out some screen shots of his survey below!