Archive for January, 2011

Out of office notification

January 29th, 2011

From Jan 30 to Feb 8, SurveyPie team will be out of office for Chinese New Year holiday of 2011.

The survey system will be running as usual, and we have staffs for website maintenance.

If you had any questions during this period, you can still send us emails or leave us messages and we’ll try our best to respond to you but please be aware that there can be delays.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause and we would love to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! Thank you for your understanding.

Matrix, Rating Scales and Ranking questions

January 24th, 2011

Rating scales and Ranking questions are two common question types in survey researches. In our new system, SurveyPie can now support these two question types. To add a Rating Scale question or Ranking question, you first need to add a Matrix question to your survey.

SurveyPie even allows you to easily analyze Rating scale questions by adding scores to each answer choice. In the final report, you get a Total score and an Average score. But make sure you set your points of each answer choice correctly.

Of course, if you don’t need to analyze any scores, simply set the Matrix to “Multiple choice”.

If you want your respondents to rank a series of answer choices, set the question to “Ranking”. By seleting this option, your respondents can choose only one from each column for this question.

Add Logic rules between pages

January 17th, 2011

SurveyPie allows users to add logic rules to either questions or pages. But there is a small difference between Question Logic and Page Logic.

When adding logic rules to questions, you simply select questions should appear once respondents select this answer choice. But if you are adding logic rules to pages, be sure you select the corresponding PAGE not the question in that page. Otherwise, your respondents may see blank pages!

Save time & energy by managing surveys smartly

January 10th, 2011

As SurveyPie never put limits on your survey or response numbers, you can create as many surveys as you like. However, “My surveys” only displays 7 surveys per page. How to find your targeting survey easy and fast? There are 3 ways to do this.

1. Search. Type one or two keywords of your targeting survey title into the search box, you can find it right away.

2. Sort. Surveys can be sorted in 3 ways: by survey titles, by the date of survey creation and by the date of survey modification. You can choose to display surveys from A to Z or Z to A, from oldest to newest or newest to oldest. It’s totally your call.

3. Tag. You may have several surveys using the same title, but distributed via different channels. To make it easier for management, tag them differently. Click on [Modify] and enter a suitable tag for you to recognize.

In the future, you can find all surveys sharing the same tag easily by choosing it in the drop-down menu of tags.

These are the 3 easy ways to manage your surveys fast. If you find out other ways to manage surveys more efficiently, don’t forget to share with us! :)

How to earn bonus SurveyPie coins

January 6th, 2011

Although we introduced the Pay-As-You-Go payment system, it doesn’t mean you really have to pay cash to use those advanced features. SurveyPie offers you several ways to earn free bonus coins!

1. Verify your email

When registering with us, you only need to provide your valid email address. This email address helps us to identify you in the future so we give you proper services or technical supports. When you log in, there’ll be a pop-up window asking you to verify your email. Follow the instructions, you get 500 coins in just 2 steps!


2. Invite friends to SurveyPie

We have a friends referral mode to help you earn coins much easier. After email verification, click [Invite Friends Now] button to go to Invite Friends page. We have an option to help you sending out invitations via emails. And we are also develping the feature to post your invitations to your Facebook wall or Twitter page. By inviting friends, you earn another 500 coins!


3. Join our promotion activities

We will be holding all kinds of activities from time to time. And usually, we give out free coins as rewards to users participate. For example, we are currently collecting user feedbacks and for those who finish our User satisfaction survey before Jan 31, 2011, we give each of them 250 coins for free! Have you taken our satisfaction survey yet?

Click this link to join: http://www.surveypie.com/survey130