Create Simple Polls and Surveys with Poll Daddy

Despite its unfortunate sounding name, Poll Daddy is a legitimate player in the online polls and surveys world.  They have served up more than a million polls since launching (including 130,000 polls in November 2009) and have spent the majority of that time trying to simplify the process of creating and deploying a poll.  In recent months they have built tethers into the major social sites and made it extremely easy to post a poll to any WordPress site.

With Poll Daddy, you can start with a free account to test out the software and make sure it will meet your needs.  From there, plans begins at $200 per year with enterprise pricing of $899 per year.  This common pricing strategy works for many online apps and gives the smallest of businesses enough for simple poll and survey needs.

Obviously polls and surveys are driven around reports and analytics and Poll Daddy provides detailed analysis on all their offerings.  In addition, the ability to randomize the potential answers is a big feature that often gets overlooked when it comes to polls since positioning affects the answer to many respondents.

GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE
As with all apps we supply you with a sample usage case that will hopefully help you generate some ideas of how your business could be using this product.

Tire Company – Your business doesn’t typically require a lot of online customer interaction, but you have done a good job through the years of collecting email addresses.  Now you are ready to launch some additional services such as oil changes and muffler repair but want to find a way to build up interest without doing traditional advertising.  Your existing customer base is your first stop and you decide to send them a two-question survey that asks where they are currently going for the services you will soon be offering.  Because it is a quick e-mail survey that looks more like a poll, many customer do respond, giving you valuable information to make those tough business decisions.  During the process you found that most of your clientele gets their oil changed across the street, so location will not be a factor when you roll out your product.  You offer survey respondents a discounted offer on their first three oil changes, knowing you just need to change their habit now that location is not a factor.

FINAL THOUGHTS
For simple poll creation Poll Daddy is the perfect compliment to your site.  When it comes to surveys there are a lot of options out there and each one caters to a different niche.  Poll Daddy’s niche seems to be creating basic surveys that do not require complex logic or formatting.  But if all you need is the ability to post a poll on your site in a secure and trustworthy way then PollDaddy fits the bill.

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