Online Survey Methods

Time is Money

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by Caitlin Rawles
No matter what kind of business you are in, you are looking to make a profit. Money may not be everything, but to those of us in the professional world, it certainly counts for a lot. We are all always looking for new ways to increase our revenue and decrease our expenses, and those of us who are smart know that time wasted is the greatest expense of all.

I am not saying this just because Cvent writes me a paycheck twice a month, but rather I am saying it because I know that it’s true: Cvent Web Surveys software is a time-saver. Our clients may pay us to license our online survey application, but in the end, the time they save thanks to the web surveys tool allows them to profit in the long run.

One of our primary goals here on the Cvent Web Surveys Client Services team is to educate clients on the best ways to use the Cvent survey tool in order to save time (and money!). In my opinion, there are a couple of features in particular with which you should familiarize yourself if you want to maximize the time that you save using our system:

1) Question Import: This is a new feature with our most recent product release, which occurred in August 2009. Question Import allows you to bring your questions into your web based survey questionnaire in bulk, which saves you the time of having to add them individually!

2) Answer Import: This feature is wonderful, especially if you are looking to pre-populate answers to your survey questions for your respondents. It is also useful if you want to bring historical data into a survey. If you import this data into the survey, then you don’t have to bother manually entering the responses from the back end!

3) Cloning Your Survey: If you run an annual client survey, and perhaps you only alter it a little bit from year to year, you will save a lot of time by simply copying or cloning the original survey when you go to send it out again. Keep in mind you can always make slight edits or changes to the copied survey if you need to do so.

4) Data Lists: Most of our clients do not make use of these, probably because they simply are not aware of the value of this feature. However, you should know that you can create account-wide email survey templates under the data lists section link. Saving your emails in the data lists section allows you to copy your email templates across surveys in your account. Do you send the same or similar emails out for multiple surveys? If so, then data lists will save you a lot of time!

5) Automatic Send by Date/Time: It will also save you a lot of time if you schedule your emails to go out automatically on a specified date and time. Not only will this save you the time of manually sending emails, but it will also negate the possibility you may forget to send the email when you planned to send it.

If you make use of all 5 of the features listed above, not only will you get out of the office earlier, but you will also bring more money in for your company or organization. Always remember that “time is money,” and familiarize yourself with the Cvent Web Surveys tool so that we can help you save both.

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