Girl With a Purpose (GWAP)

SurveyBuilder.com Helps You to Know Your Online Customers!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Survey Builder for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

 

 

If you're a website owner who needs to get feedback re whether or not your site is meeting the needs of its visitors, or need to gauge your customers' opinions re a new product/service you've introduced, then SurveyBuilder.com is a great tool to use to gain this feedback from your customers.

 

SurveyBuilder.com is a site that enables you to create a survey online , post it online and after persons have answered the survey, analyze the results.

 

(Market research students who need a handy online survey builder to do course projects, will also find this website useful).

 

 

There are five (5) things that I like about using SurveyBuilder.com:

1) No previous survey experience is necessary, as SurveyBuilder.com walks you through the entire process of building your online surveys.

 

(Even if you have limited experience with constructing surveys, you can get video tutorial help re this).

 

2) Signing up to use the website is free. However, if you need wider functionality, you will have to pay minimally for it. (Please see point 4, below).

 

3) You can quickly and easily construct surveys, as SurveyBuilder.com provides great tutorial videos to get you up and running, quickly.

 

4) You can be exclusive or very inclusive re polling persons to answer your survey.

If you just want to poll your site visitors, you can promote the link to your survey on your website, in an email, on your blog or on your Facebook page.

 

However, if you want to get responses from a broader audience, e.g. to include potential customers who may not be visitors to your site, then SurveyBuilder.com, through its parent company,uSamp, allows your survey to be promoted to a wider US audience.

 

uSamp helps you to poll respondents (persons who'll answer your surveys), by various demographics e.g. age, gender and household income, so that you'll know the preferences of various segments of your market (customer groupings).

 

(You pay for credits to poll Usamp respondents. However, the first 200 credits are free).

 

5) SurveyBuilder.com allows you to analyze the results of your surveys.

 

They provide easy tools that allow you to build reports so as to gain additional insights from your respondents, e.g. how many persons aged 24-35 heard about your site via various advertising vehicles like other websites, print or radio ads.

 

Thus saving you from spending a lot of money on expensive survey analysis software to glean this information.

 

Overall, SurveyBuilder.com represents a win-win situation for those website owners and students wishing to conduct online surveys.

 

So why not try it today, to see how it can work for you?

 

Gillian

Google Cloud Print Beta - Facilitating Remote Printing

Google Cloud Print (beta) is a wonderful app for Google Chrome (Google's browser), that  allows you to print documents remotely.

 

(In fact its tagline states, "Print anywhere from any device").

 

So if you're stuck in traffic and have a deadline to meet, that requires you to print a report, you can send the report from your smartphone to your office printer and wallah! - the document gets printed, so that you can have it upon arrival.

 

Google Cloud Print in is beta and was introduced last year October, but already has six (6) million printers connected.

 

Printers and devices get connected via Google's Cloud Services.

 

The great thing about this app is that it facilitates remote printing via both e-printers - (printers equipped to facilitate printing via the Internet)  and legacy printers with no Internet connectivity...

 

(...Just as long as your legacy printer is connected to a device that has Internet connectivity).

 

This is a very handy  tool to use if you want to print documents, but have no access to a printer...which is excellent for field work or for use when travelling.

 

Google Cloud Print even has handy  - Getting Started docs and a FAQ section that enable you to learn more about how the app works.

 

So why not check it out and experience a new dimension of printing?

 

[You must have a Google account to use Google Cloud Print (beta)]. 

 

Gillian

Sources Include

1) Google Cloud Print Introduction, accessed December 19,2011

2) Article, "Google Cloud Print Reaches 6 Million Printers", by Barry Levine, newsfactor.com via Yahoo News, December 16,2011

New Social Network Allows You to Make Friends, via the Phone!

 

Want to make new friends from different parts of the world, and connect with old friends you haven't seen in awhile?

 

Well, there a new social network that allows you to do just that!

 

TalkOClock allows you to communicate with people from all over the world, seek friends and keep in touch with old friends and classmates via telephone, for free!

 

Yes, the cost to use their service is free! (There is however, a cost to receive an incoming call, according to your local phone plan).

 

The telephone gives you, the Talk O'Clock user, the added dimension of emotion to your conversation, so that you can hear the connecting party's emotion, versus having to imagine it.

 

(TalkOClock also works with Facebook).

 

So you can hear the elation in an old friend's voice after having linked him/her after many years of separation, or get the chance to strike up a conversation with someone in whose language you've been dying to learn or perfect!

 

Using TalkOClock is easy:

 

How it works is that everyone is connected through the TalkOClock platform.

 

So each person in the 125 counties connected to the TalkOClock platform is given a TalkOClock number, thus preventing your real telephone number from being seen by the person you're connecting with. 

 

All services on the TalkOClock platform ensure your complete privacy this way...

 

...and if someone you wish to connect with is rude, just report them to Talk O'Clock Customer Service and they'll take steps to kick the person off the service.

 

One of the services that I find to be really useful is called International Greetings.

 

All you have to do to use this service is to login to your TalkOClock account and inform other  users of the service  that you have something to celebrate (e.g. a birthday)  and then specify the ideal time for the conversation. 

 

When the moment comes, greetings will come in from the persons you specify. 

 

So you'll get to hear Happy Birthday greetings in any number of languages you want, from as many people as you want... your choice is limitless!

 

According to TalkOClock, Inc. founder and General Director, Alex Kistenev:

 

“The main advantage of the service is that users are able to communicate with people from all over the world, to find new interesting people and to continue dialogue. A live relationship is filled with emotions which cannot be transferred via typed words.”

 

Apart from International Greetings, TalkOClock  offers other "social services":

 

They have reminders and an alarm clock wherein which you can request that other users call and remind you about anything...the bravest ones can even give you a wake-up-call with an energizing talk alarm!

 

So why not try TalkOClock today?

 

I'm sure you'll enjoy reconnecting with friends and also connecting with people from different countries...who speak your language and others.

 

Who knows? Maybe you'll get to develop some life long friendships and learn a second language in the process!

 

(TalkOClock was created in the mid-July 2011).

 

Gillian

Deadline for BlackBerry Developers Competition for Jamaican Students, Extended!

Friends,

 

For those of you who still want to enter the BlackBerry Developers Competition for Jamaican students, there is great news...

 

...The Registration and Submission deadlines have been extended to November 18,2011.

 

Yippee!

 

So, for those of you who haven't entered as yet, unleash your creativity this weekend and develop an app!

 

More information is available from our previous post re this and at: www.bbdevelopers.gov.jm.

 

All the best!

 

Gillian

Article Review: "Twitter Your Way Into a Job"

If you're job hunting, then maybe you should start a Twitter account, if you haven't already.

 

In Kerry Eustice's article,"Twitter your way into a job", Kerry describes The Guardian's "Twitter Job Challenge" (#twitterjobchallenge), in which readers are invited to tell The Guardian how Twitter has assisted them in finding a job.

 

[They do this by sending a tweet (described below), with the hashtag (#twitterjobchallenge), at the beginning of the tweet].

 

In addition to introducing the Challenge, Kerry also gives some solid advice to job hunters...

 

...Notable amongst these is that potential employers, besides liking the fact that you're keeping current with technology, like to know that you're actively involved in social media (especially Twitter and Facebook).

 

In fact they get a better picture of who you are from your Tweets - those 140 characters that you post on Twitter, commenting on anything from your "bad hair" days to topics  that you're quite knowledgeable and passionate about.

 

In "Twitter your way into a job", Kerry gives insights re how to build relationships with potential employers on Twitter and showcases real-life examples of how this can be done.

 

Although she warns (and mind you this article was written way back in April 2011..ahem), that she has received mixed feedback from persons who've actually found jobs on Twitter, she says that the number of employers using Twitter to scout employees, is increasing.

 

Her article, is definitely worth the read if you're serious about job hunting in the 21st Century!

 

Gillian

 

Sources Include

1) Article, "Social Media Definition" by Susan Ward, About.com Guide, accessed July 28,2011

2) Article,"Twitter your way into a job" by Kerry Eustice, The Guardian, April 30,2011