Surveys

One of the many benefits of NBOA listservs is the ability for subscribers to conduct email surveys to hundreds of their fellow business officers – and get the results quickly, easily and for free! You must be a subscriber to an NBOA listserv to conduct surveys or to access the survey website.

You may want to print this page so you have the directions at hand.

Directions

To conduct a survey please go to the following link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com

• Enter the Username: nboalistserv
• Enter the Password: nboa
• Click on "Enter"

Survey Design:

1. Click on "New Survey", then "From Scratch", then "Next." You may want to look at the "Example Website Survey" first for some ideas.
2. Click on "Edit Title" and enter a name for your survey.
3. If you wish to have more than one section on your survey, click on "Add Page" and "Edit Page" to name your section(s).
4. Click on "Add a Question" and select the type of question you want to ask. You can click on "Type of Question" to view the various types, then ask your question.
5. Keep adding questions until you are through.
6. You may edit your survey, or preview your questions at any time.
7. If you need to know who is replying to your survey, you have to ask that as a question. The survey site does not capture that information unless you ask, or unless you use SurveyMonkey's email list.
8. When you have completed the design of your survey, you must open it before anyone can respond.

Getting Responses:

After designing your survey, you will need to gather responses. Once you have collected responses, you cannot fully edit your survey. On the main menu click on "My Surveys", then on "Collect" and choose one of the following methods for getting respones:

1. "Create a link for your email message" - The fastest way to collect responses. Simply send a link to your survey in your own email message. The identities of respondents will not be tracked.
2. "Send a link to an email list" - Send a link to your survey in an email message generated by SurveyMonkey and then track who responds. You will be taken to the "List Management" section of SurveyMonkey. (Click on "Survey Options" to access Collection options, Completion options, Survey limits, Survey security, and Survey Closed messages)

The Results:

Click on "Analyze" to see your results. The program automatically collates all of the answers to your questions. Leave enough time for respondents to answer. You may return more than once to collate answers.

You can print the survey results or you can download them. To download all answers by respondent, click on "Download Report". There are several format choices:

• Database format
• MS Excel comma separated formats:
• Condensed raw data
• Condensed raw data numerical
• Expanded raw data
• Flat file raw data

You may want to experiment to see which format works best for your survey.

If you sent the survey to the whole listserv, you have a responsibility to your fellow business officers to publish the results! Thank you.