How to take a free survey with Google Drive?

Getting information from primary sources can be extremely costly for some pockets. Many of you who have read our posts on market research may be wondering how to complete a free survey and without really costing you a euro.

La verdad es que el único requerimiento para que su encuesta be totalmente gratuita es tener una base de datos de contactos para utilizar una de las aplicaciones gratuitas que existen.

In particular, we have always considered Google drive and Limesurvey for this purpose.

Aprender a hacer una encuesta con estas aplicaciones es extremadamente sencillo, sobre todo si usamos Google Drive, puesto que no requiere ningún conocimiento informático previo. Además con Google Drive, inclusive si no tienes una base de datos, existe la oportunidad de compartir tu cuestionario con tus followers en las redes sociales.

Later I will explain to you in a few steps how you can use Google Drive to learn how to do a survey absolutely free.

How to take a survey with Google Drive

Google Drive is a totally free file storage application up to 15GB provided by Google.

The good thing about this application is that among its utilities it makes it possible to create forms and later collect all the responses obtained in an XLS file (spreadsheet) with which to analyze the data later.

Once the introduction is complete, now let's look at the steps to take a survey with Google Drive:

Step 1. Create an account or sign in to a Google account

Step 2. Go to the design area of the form

Step 3. Design your survey

Once you have accessed the forms, you will need to select a title and subject as in the image below before entering the edit box to conduct a survey.

Editing area:

Step 4. Publish your survey

This is one of the simplest steps. All you need to do is press the Submit Form button and the window below will appear automatically.

Here you have three options:

Not bad, right?

Some examples of surveys with Google Drive

Here are some examples of surveys created with this application:

And in conclusion, below you can see a sample form embedded in a web portal:

Types of questions to take a survey

las preguntas dependerán de forma clara del tipo de información que queramos conseguir. No es lo mismo pedir una encuesta de satisfacción del client que pedir su opinión sobre un nuevo producto que vas a lanzar.

Either way, it is an important part of how to do a survey correctly. To do this, follow these tips:

To finish: steps to complete a survey with Google Drive

The steps to follow are summarized in:

Now that you know how to conduct surveys with Google Drive, there is no excuse not to do it and get the information you require from your customers.

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