Surveys
Ask the questions you are currently guessing the answers to.
Surveys that uncover what members actually want, correlated into insight that guides content, programming, and engagement decisions rather than sitting in a spreadsheet.
The insight cycle
Attract
>
Understand
>
Match
>
Improve
Most platforms build content on a hunch
Custom implementation today, self-managed tooling coming.
What surveys are good for
How it is designed to work.
Timing matters more than the questions. Ask at the moment the answer is fresh.
What to build
Direction
- Which topics members want next
- Format preference: live, recorded, written, cohort
- Pace and depth of programs
- What they would pay more for, and what they would not
How it is going
Experience
- Onboarding experience, asked in week two
- Course feedback, asked at completion
- Community sentiment, run quarterly
- Support and coaching quality
Why they left
Exit and lapse
- Cancellation reasons, captured at the moment
- Lapsed member win-back research
- What would have kept them, asked honestly
Who answered
Segmentation
- Filter results by tier, cohort, tenure, or engagement level
- Compare engaged members against drifting ones
- Correlate answers against later behavior
- Weight by lifetime value where it matters
Getting responses
Distribution
- In-platform prompt at the relevant moment
- Email and push to a specific segment
- Embedded in a course, event, or dashboard
- Incentivized with points, carefully
Worked example
The survey that changed a content calendar
Ninety seconds of member time, one quarter of production redirected.
Quarterly direction survey
Sent to 1,240 members
Improve
Four questions, sent to active members only
Because lapsed members answer a different question and mixing them muddies both.
Learn
412 responses, segmented by tenure
New members and two-year members want almost opposite things.
Learn
The top request was not on your roadmap
It was third from bottom on your own internal list.
Match
Correlated against completion data
The members asking for it are the ones who finish things, which raises its weight.
Improve
Next quarter rebuilt around it
And you told the 412 that their answers did it, which is why they will answer next time.
Recipes
Three you could build this afternoon.
Ask at the moment, not at the quarter
When
Only if
Then
Segment before you conclude
When
Only if
Then
Close the loop publicly
When
Only if
Then
Before you build
Three things worth knowing.
Note
Four questions, ninety seconds. Long surveys get abandoned and the people who finish them are not representative.
Note
Never survey without acting or reporting back. A platform that asks and then does nothing trains members to ignore the next one.
Note
Correlate answers against behavior. What members say they want and what they actually complete are frequently different.
The rest of Assess
Surveys is one of 7 parts.
Forms
Surveys
Polls
Quizzes
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Personality Assessments
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Custom Assessments
Advanced Psychometrics
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Put Surveys to work.
Tell us what you are trying to get members to do, and we will show you the Flow that does it.