6 Great Survey Tools and Poll Apps for Startups

March 8, 2011

Let’s say you don’t have the time or the money for a full fledged market research project, but you would like to cheaply collect some feedback from your customers or gather information from your prospects. Online surveys are by far the fastest way of collecting data from your customers and prospects. 

Below are a list of useful online surveys and polling apps that can help expansion stage and start up companies gain more in-depth information about their customers, prospects, empoyees, and so on. 
Polldaddy: It is very popular in the field of online democracy. Has an easy-to-use survey editor, powerful reporting and filtering capabilities and lets you customize the look of your survey. You can send out the survey link in an email, use it in a banner on your website, or use the iOS app to collect responses from people on iPhones and iPads.• Free accounts: Available• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Not available
Zoomerang: This survey software lets you build your survey quickly with free access to over a hundred professionally designed survey templates. After collecting data, you can create customized charts and share them by posting them on your blog or website, or just export the data to Excel, PowerPoint or a PDF. The Pro and Premium versions let you brand and customize the survey with your logo and customize your end pages. The Premium account comes with support and training help.• Free accounts: Available• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Available
Wufoo: It is an HTML form builder that helps you create contact forms, online surveys and invitations so you can collect data, registrations and online payments without writing any codes.• Free accounts: Available• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Available
eSurveysPro: It has a great survey editor tool, provides 18 different question types and offers control over the flow of the survey.• Free accounts: Available• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Available
ConstantContact: This is a great customer feedback survey tool. It offers 40 customizable survey themes, lets you promote your survey on Facebook and Twitter, and track and see reports very easily.• Free accounts: Only Free Trial• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Available
SurveyMonkey: It is very popular among users ranging from students, marketing professionals, HR and so on. You can use it for everything from customer satisfaction and employee performance reviews, to course evaluations and research of all types. They have good customer support and a satisfaction rating of over 99%! • Free accounts: Available• Customization options: Yes• Ready-made templates: Available
In addition to the above, other survey tools and polls include Acepolls, Pollcode, Twiigs, MicroPoll, 99Polls, FreeOnlineSurveys, Mineful, Checkbox, GetResponse, Inquisite and LimeSurvey. Check them out!

Co-Founder

Faria Rahman is the Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.treemarc.com/">Treemarc</a> which, uses machine learning to make it easy for businesses to order custom packaging and product nesting in a few minutes. Previously, she was a Senior Associate at Northbridge Financial Corporation, a leading commercial property and casualty insurance management company offering a wide range of innovative solutions to Canadian businesses. Faria also worked at OpenView from 2010 to 2011 where she was part of the Market Research team.