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tools of the trade SURVEY SAYS! A look at online survey platforms. BY SARAH BOEHLE COMPANY: SurveyMonkey.com PRODUCTS: SurveyMonkey.com Annual Pro and Monthly Pro PRICE: $200/year for Annual Pro; $19.95/month for Monthly Pro HOW TO BUY: www.surveymonkey.com FEATURES: Select from more than 50 templates and 20-plus question types to create customized surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Surveys can be created in any language, including multibyte languages such as Chinese and Arabic. Advanced validation protocols, randomization, and filtering options help to ensure the integrity of survey results. Respondent data and analysis can be output in a variety of spreadsheet and database formats and PDF files. The Monthly Pro version allows 1,000 responses per month (with a response overage charge of 5 cents each). The Annual Pro version allows for an unlimited number of responses. COMPANY: MarketTools Inc. PRODUCT: Zoomerang Online Surveys: scriber resource center, and a knowledge base ensure that Zoomerang customers are well supported. A recently added “Screen Out” feature allows users to provide different messaging to survey respondents who are screened out—and then not count them as “completed” in survey results. COMPANY: QuestionPro Survey Software (a division of Survey Analytics Enterprise Survey Software) PRODUCT: QuestionPro Corporate Package PRICE: $249/month or $2,499/year HOW TO BUY: www.questionpro.com FEATURES: SurveyGizmo supports 14 question types and allows users to publish surveys to dedicated URLs or embed them in existing Websites. Respondent data—including abandonment stats—and other survey feedback are collected to provide survey administrators with detailed, real-time measures of survey results. SurveyGizmo also integrates with Salesforce to support lead-generation and channel management in sales. The Professional edition supports unlimited surveys and questions, and 5,000 responses per month. zPro Professional’s Edition Version HOW TO BUY: http://info.zoomerang.com/ PRICE: $599/year, $199/3 months, or $75/1 month, or $350/year for nonprofit/education users FEATURES: Based QuestionPro Corporate Package provides a Webbased tool for authoring and distributing surveys. Using any standard Web browser, QuestionPro walks users through an intuitive, Wizard-based, step-bystep process to create surveys and distribute them via e-mail and online; manage survey response data; and perform administrative and analytical functions. Surveys can be created from ready-made templates or custom built. Versatile reporting functions allow users to easily chart and graph various data and conduct basic statistical computations. COMPANY: SurveyGizmo (a Widgix COMPANY: WorldAPP Inc. PRODUCT: Key Survey Professional Regular PRICE: $3,950/year HOW TO BUY: www.keysurvey.com FEATURES: With Key Survey Professional on a range of more than 100 available survey templates, Zoomerang’s ZPro Professional Version Edition can be used to create and distribute customized surveys using e-mail, Web, or kiosk deployment. (SMS mobile survey deployment is available at an additional charge.) The service supports 15 question types, unlimited questions, unlimited surveys, and unlimited responses, and reports can be downloaded to Excel. Zoomerang collects, manages, and analyzes respondent data using real-time analytics and custom reporting. Online tutorials, online demos, white papers, Webinars, user forums, a sub72 Software company) PRODUCT: SurveyGizmo Professional PRICE: $49/month (or $588/year) HOW TO BUY: www.surveygizmo.com FEATURES: Online design, data collection, and reporting functions make SurveyGizmo a Web-based survey builder that is convenient and easy to use. Fully customizable, Regular, users can utilize any one of 200 templates, pick and choose from among 13 distinct question types, or build entirely from scratch to create customized surveys suiting a variety of applications. Key Survey supports both URL-based and e-mail distribution modes. Comprehensive reporting and analytics output to a full range of formats, including PDF, XLS, CSV, and SPSS. Key Survey integrates seamlessly with Salesforce, and users may take advantage of 128-bit SSL encryption protocols to guard against potential threats to the integrity of proprietary data. The Professional Regular edition supports an unlimited number of online surveys and 10,000 responses across all surveys (a response equals one completed survey). A Professional Unlimited option is also available; it is priced at $5,950 per year. t w w w. t r a i n i n g m a g . c o m | JUNE 2008 training http://SurveyMonkey.com http://SurveyMonkey.com http://www.surveymonkey.com http://SurveyMonkey.com http://www.questionpro.com http://info.zoomerang.com/ http://www.keysurvey.com http://www.surveygizmo.com http://www.trainingmag.com

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