As you know by now, SurveyMonkey is great at helping you create, send and analyse surveys. But recently, we’ve been noticing that some of you have been getting pretty creative with your surveys! Since SurveyMonkey collects and stores data for you, it can also be used to accomplish a wide variety of tasks and help you make better decisions, such as keeping track of customer data, planning an event and – one of our favourite examples – creating tournament draws for your favourite sporting events!
So take a look and get inspired!
Track and Store Customer Data
Robert Cradle is a master barber and the founder of the non-profit, Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation, which provides personal grooming services and products for the homeless. Since the organisation started in 2000, RBCF has served over 6,000 clients and uses SurveyMonkey as its primary database, which makes keeping track of clients, generating impact data and reporting back to the donor base a breeze. Read more about RBCF’s inspiring story:
The benefits to our clients are tracked via a paper ‘Outcome Indicator’ form that is completed after each personal grooming service. Up until 2008, before subscribing to SurveyMonkey, we used a complex and tedious database system that left us with a continuous backlog of Outcome Indicator forms. We were further limited with only one volunteer familiar enough with the system to complete the data entry.
It was dreadful to see the piles of unentered forms and the resulting inability to report to our donors and to the media. Generating detailed client demographics and impact data was nearly impossible with our old system.
Then, Eureka! We discovered SurveyMonkey and decided not just to use it as way to create surveys but also to use it as a system to track our clients. It has become our one-and-only client database since 2008, and those piles of unentered forms were entered in no time! We could now provide real-time reports to anyone who requested up-to-date results.
Operating SurveyMonkey is extremely easy and I can do my data entry anywhere at any time. (Our old system could only be accessed on one computer.) It only took minutes to create a survey that allowed us to compile the most precious part of our work...the results! Now, by having such ease when sorting out our data, we believe we have a better relationship with our donors because they know, in real time, how their funds are having an impact on our target population. In essence, SurveyMonkey helped to increase our revenue by improving donor relations at little cost to us! The affordable subscription provided by SurveyMonkey more than pays for itself...and then some!
Plan Your Wedding
Sometimes it seems like planning a wedding or any event, for that matter, requires a PhD in organisation! Tom and Angie used SurveyMonkey to plan their big day, coordinate with guests from all over the globe and, best of all, share their love story within the survey. Use our Event Planning Template to get started!
Create Quizzes and Tests
Time for a pop quiz! Don’t be scared; this is an easy one. What’s an easy-to-use, cost-effective way to assess how well a group has grasped a concept? And how can this be done without the headache of correcting loads of papers? We think you know the answer. But just to be sure, read on to see how one teacher uses SurveyMonkey in the classroom.
Just for Fun
Whatever sporting tournaments you are passionate about, we have something for you. Harness the spirit of competition by building your own tournament draw within SurveyMonkey. Let the best person (or in our case, monkey) win!
Finally, 19 September is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. What better way to celebrate than with a survey, you salty sea dog! Come and sail the surveying seas (pirate talk for check out all of our ‘just for fun’ surveys)!
What have you been using SurveyMonkey for? Any great ideas you’d like to share? Let us know!
