How to Keep Web Surveys Private
Web surveys have a number of applications, from testing the demand for a new product to gauging customer satisfaction. If you create a Web survey, having the wrong people answer the questions could skew your results. By using an online survey service, you can create surveys that are private and password protected so you control who can both see and take the survey. Doing so means you get the answers from the people who matter the most.
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Create your Web survey using an online survey service such as SurveyMonkey, QuestionPro or SurveyGizmo. Each allows you to create an account and then create new surveys where you specify the questions, available answers and welcome and thank you pages for your survey. Choose a survey service that allows you to password-protect your surveys for the most privacy.
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Mark the survey as private as you finish creating the survey. If you don't specifically denote that the survey is private, it could be shared on other platforms as well as on the survey services pages.
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Create a general username and password for your survey, if prompted. This adds further protection, since not only do users require the survey URL, they also need a username and password to access your survey.
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Generate the URL for your survey by finishing the creation process. Once your survey has been created, copy and paste the URL. Sign out of the survey service and attempt to access the URL by pasting it into your Internet browser's address bar. As long as you've prepared your survey properly, you should be taken to a sign-in page. Use your generic username and password to access the survey as a means of testing its functionality.
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Email both the URL and the applicable username and password to everyone you want to take the survey. This allows access without the survey being published publicly, yielding private and secure results from the right people.
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