How to use tool like Polls to increase your online presence?

All online entrepreneurs make efforts to increase their presence on the internet. Maybe you are doing good in your online business but there is always a room to kick your start-up to the next level. Online polls are one of the strategies, helping you get discovered online. 

The online polls are the way to let visitor express their views and share their opinion about a particular product or a service. If you want to attract more audiences to your website then your questions have to be right and should be related to your business.

Why use Online Polls?

• It is cost effective and easy to respond
• Faster and accurate
• Ease of processing and display
• Anonymity is maintained
• The information is collected in less time
• Helps in growing e-mail list
• Very good medium to take the product feedback
• The online polls strike the competitive nature of people
• Increased visiting time on your blog and your online business grows

​Well, before going any further, I would like to discuss the types of online polls that you can conduct on your blog or the website.

Multiple poll questions

1. These types of polls are conducted when you need to know the customer opinion and preference about any product or the services. The multiple poll questions generally have 4-5 options and the respondent need to select that option which best describes her/his opinion or preference.  The example is shown below:

Yes/No poll questions

​When you want a straight forward answer of the poll question, you conduct Yes/No polling. This is generally done to filter out the more serious buyers from the casual ones. The example could be like:

You can add maybe as one of the options to filter out the slightly serious buyers which can purchase your product if followed properly.

Score Poll questions

This type of poll question is generally used to know the score of the product or service on a scale of 10. The score poll lets you know the opinion or experience of the respondents after purchasing and using your product or the service. ​

Scale Poll questions

There are times when you want to know the degree of satisfaction in the mind of the consumer after using your product or the services.

This satisfaction level through this poll question helps you in improving the product.The score poll and scale poll generally convey the same meaning while one gives number other shows the degree.
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The poll question could be:

Demographic Poll question

Suppose you are running an Online store, designing clothes for every age group. Your Online store will get the direction if you come to know the age, occupation, income, ethnicity, etc of the visitors.

I mean to say that for example your visitors are mostly 18-30 years of age, service class with monthly income range $2000-$4000 and are mostly Asian community.

​You will be able to design the clothes according to their taste where the chances of conversion are more and your Online store grows.

Constant sum poll question

You are regularly updating your blog but have found that the visitors are not growing at the desired rate. Somebody suggested you conduct a poll with the following options:

How much of the total free time do you devote to?

• P.C.
• Laptop
• Mobile

The result was as follows:

• P.C.: 10%
• Laptop:  30%
• Mobile: 60%

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It was later found that the blog was not mobile responsive that is it is difficult to read on mobile. This poll question provided the solution of slow growth in the readership. This type of poll is called constant sum poll.

Rank order poll questions

When you are interested to know the popularity of a particular product. For example,How do you rank the following websites on the basis of ease of use?

• Weebly
• Wix
• Site 123

For me, it is Weebly because you can simply drag and drop the elements onto the page and can see your website taking shape in no time.

Image chooser poll

There are times when you choose to use pictures to design your poll questions then you create an image poll ask the respondents to respond to the questions.

By now you come to know the importance and types of online polls. Now it is time to actually implement the learning but you must be wondering how to implement it?

Weebly offers 2 great app polls to choose between them. One is Pinpoll and another good alternative is QuickPoll

Pinpoll App

You can use Pinpoll to create a poll and can be added directly to the site. It offers many features free of cost like one can create unlimited polls of multiple-choice questions, add videos or the animated pictures at the background of the poll to make it more attractive, the respondents can see the real-time result and one can even know the responses of their Facebook friends.

Although the above-mentioned features come free of cost, if you want to use all the features then it costs you $9/month.

Once it is added to the dashboard of your Weebly site then you can easily drag and place it at any location on the page of your choice.

Under poll settings, select the option “create new poll”. Thereafter, you can type the poll questions and its multiple answers, can change the background, layout, font, etc to design an eye-catching poll for your readers.

The extra tab has many extra features and some of which can be activated by paying a one-time nominal fee:

• Removing pinpoll logo (fee).
  
• You can hide the result so that people visit again to see the result (fee).
  
• Showing the number of votes.
  
• You can automate the start and end date of the poll.
  
• Increase the security by activating recaptcha (fee).
  
• Show share buttons so that the respondents can share at social media.
  
• Can activate the interactive map to know the origin of the votes​.

Quick Polls App

Let me discuss one of the popular poll apps of Weebly, Quick Polls. You can easily design a customized poll, attracting more readership on your blog that increases sales of your Online store.
Let us look at this:
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It offers a free and premium plan to its users: 

If you are a Weebly user then you can add this poll directly. The Quick Poll is a tool to ask a poll question in an easy way. The result of the poll appears in no time and you get a real-time picture of the poll results.

You can say that it is one of the easiest ways to engage your audiences. You can create customized polls inside the Weebly editor.

The quick polls offer the following features to its users:

• You can create rank order poll questions with simple and easy 1-5-star poll reviews. The respondents can give their feedback about any product by giving stars on the scale of 5 stars.
  
• You can beautifully create Emoji polls using Quick polls letting respondents express their emotions or sentiments through Emoji Poll.
  
• You can create poll using images.
  
• It displays the result graphically which helps you in analyzing the result more smartly and the current results can be seen by the respondents.
  
• It helps you in growing your mailing list as it asks respondents to give the e-mail ids after they respond.

This app offers 7 days free trial, thereafter it offers 30 responses free per month or pay $3.99/month to get unlimited responses.

It only takes a few seconds to make this app live on your website and you can start creating polls. Simply, go to the app center here and select ADD.

This will connect the Quick Poll to the site and it will be added to your dashboard. There, you can drag and place it where you want it to be featured.

Thereafter, click on the Poll and select Poll set up out of the four options:

• Standard
• Buttons & Image
• Star review
• Emoji review

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You can design & customize the poll by changing the colors, font, and background of the poll. You can even get real-time responses of the poll in your mail-box.

Conclusion

Online Polls are a very effective medium to engage your audiences and grow your e-mail list.  However, you should ask a question which people are passionate about to answer and can even take help from the influencers to spread your polls.

Tips for writing great poll questions:

• Be direct and ask multiple choice questions
  
• Use simple and direct language
  
• No confused questions
  
• Don't forget to include other option
  
• The questions should be interesting and free from error
  
• Time-bound polls and show the results simultaneously
  
• The polls should be mobile and tablet responsive
  
• Right sample size
  
• Ask a question in a flow from simple to complex

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Weebly offers 2 very good options Pinpoll and Quick Polls which you can add to the dashboard of Weebly editor in a matter of seconds. Thereafter, you just drag the app of your choice and place it on the page where you want it to get featured.

Start creating attractive polls for the users and start getting responses, increasing your visitors.