How online survey tools can save you time and money

Google Corporation and its affiliates have been promoting a "no paper" or "paperless" work environment in their offices. Do you ever wonder why? One reason of course is to protect company’s intellectual properties from spilling out, especially now that they’ve become the forefront of change in internet technology. The second one is time and cost optimization. If you are about to hand out questionnaires to everybody in the office take a minute and think about the time this will take and all the money for the copied and the ink you are going to spend. This means that when you go paperless, you will definitely save time and money while increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the operation.

The same thing with getting alternatives in using survey tools. For years, companies used snail mails containing questionnaires and survey forms. Others did it through personal interviews while customers are still having their first-hand experience of the product or service. Today, a great solution is an online survey, which is not only very easy to set up using online survey tools but will save you and your employees great amount of time and money. Moreover, if you don’t have people around the office, online survey is a perfect way to reach them and get their opinion. In such a way, you are not limited by physical location.

Not only this, but survey tools are very easy to operate with and the people find them very easy to complete – they will love the idea. However, the true benefit comes in terms of data analysis. Imagine counting all the numbers and the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in the paper questionnaire. When subscribing to online survey software, you can easily get results real-time without manually waiting for tallied results.

With online survey tools everything is done for you by the tool itself. You just choose the parameters you want to measure from the survey and in a blink of an eye you will not only have the numbers, but visual representation in a form of graph as well.

Nonetheless, despite having many advantages, certain individual might have a problem with online survey tools. If they are accustomed to paper questionnaires an online one might confuse them a bit. That’s why it is very important to explain to them what these kinds of survey are and how to solve them. Of course if a person doesn’t have a computer at his or hers workstation that might be a problem as well.

Linda Soft is the author of this article on survey tool. Find more information, about online survey tool here