Every company is trying to bring itself above and trying to perform much better than their opponents. While the output is not always as expected, the companies are shifting towards the available effective online budget marketing research techniques. Many marketing experts recommend these tools as they offers convenience and produce effective results.

If you too are running a company, you should also use these tools to generate maximum output by focusing on “marketing research” term. There are various tools available online trying to convenience you at a fair price with lot of features but you have to go according to your needs. Well,  we’ll be trying to review a similar service – dotSurvey which allows you to easily create free online survey, polls, competition and forms according to your needs. We will see how actually this service is capable of and where do their claims actually stands.

How To Create Free Online Survey With dotSurvey

The registration was easy and since they are presently offering a 60 days free trial, we’ll suggest you to avail that free trial and give this service a try before going into the paid plans. Creating survey is easy and the inbuilt survey templates are really helpful. There are plenty of different types of templates available which include contact forms, customer satisfaction surveys, eCommerce surveys, market research forms, product order forms, etc. and you can also preview a template before selecting it.

On selecting an inbuilt survey template, it will ask you to name that survey. Once you named the survey, it will take you to the survey editor where you can build, style and configure your surveys or forms.

Choosing an inbuilt template is always helpful as it saves plenty of time and gives you a basic idea too. The WYSIYG editor is really helpful and works efficiently. The surveys are easily customizable and drag and drop functionalities really make the whole work as a bread-butter. Apart from this, you can add multiple columns, pictures; email address field, date and time fields which are hard to find in most of available online survey tools.

Another feature which makes the Dot Survey unique is the CopyKat tool which allows you to white label or fully brands any of your surveys quickly.

In the copyKat tool of Dotsurvey you can import any webpage to make a survey out of it. You can even add survey placeholders to the imported page and remove the page elements from it.

Once you’re ready with your surveys or forms, you can share them plenty of available options. DotSurvey allows you to share surveys on Facebook and twitter directly. You can also invite your customers with the help of email. The inbuilt dotMailer seems very helpful when it comes to sharing as you can directly share your surveys or forms using the dotMailer account. Apart from this, you can always share your surveys or forms using the automated generated unique URL.

Finally the reports! We honestly found the dotSurvey fairly efficient on generating reports. All the reactions can be observed right from the charming dashboard. Gorgeous animated graphs and charts will bring the generated output data of all surveys into life and you can filter the data according to your needs too. Moreover, you can even import the data into a CSV or excel files.

What makes dotSurvey Unique?

• The copyKat feature of dotSurvey will impress you most. With copyKat feature of Dotsurvey you can import any webpage to make a survey out of it.
• You can indeed save a lot of money and time by using dotSurvey since you can create all these surveys yourself.
• The surveys are easily customizable and drag and drop functionality really makes the whole work as a bread-butter.
• You can add multiple columns and pictures with just a drag and drop. These features are hard to find in most of available online survey tools.
• dotMailer – powerful email marketing is also integrated with the dotSurvey.
• They are offering 60 days free trial, so you can try the service before spending away money.
• With life full animated graphs and charts, you’ll definitely love the representation of generated data.

Lastly, here’s a quick official video from dotSurvey.com:

Wrap Up

Honestly, we really love the amount of features offered by dotSurvey. There would hardly be any feature that dotSurvey is missing, it’s just perfect tool for “marketing research” and would really produce free online survey and efficient results for you. However, the price of £25 (around $39) per month feels a little heavy on pocket.