Name: Instant Census
Price: 99 USD
Author: Zagaran

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Cross-Browser Testing

Functional Testing

Product Analytics

Text Editors

Version Control

Development

Student Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Business Process Management (BPM)

Collaboration

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Enterprise Feedback Management

Enterprise Search

Online Notary

Enterprise

Accounting

Hedge Fund

Travel Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Change Management

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Configuration Management

Converged Network Adapters (CNAs)

Data Center Cooling

Density-Optimized Servers

Firewall

Fraud Detection

Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Mainframe Monitoring

Managed DNS

Network Performance Monitoring

Privileged Access Management

Remote Desktop

SaaS Backup

Software Components

Storage as a Service (STaaS)

System Monitoring

Unified Communications Monitoring

User Virtualization

Website Hosting

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Channel Management

Content Management

Data Cleansing

Digital Experience Intelligence

Email Deliverability

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Mobile Analytics

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Waste Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Government Contracting

Sales Enablement

Sales

Intrusion Detection

Operational Technology (OT) Security

Security

Aviation

Awards Management

Direct Secure Messaging

Loan Servicing

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Instant Census is a text message survey software solution designed to facilitate efficient communication between researchers, customer insight professionals, and survey respondents. It caters to organizations of all sizes, including small businesses and large enterprises. Professionals from various industries, such as market researchers, customer insight professionals, healthcare providers, education institutions, nonprofit organizations, academic researchers, public health researchers, public opinion researchers, and businesses, can benefit from the features offered by Instant Census.

## Key Features

**Interactive Text Message Surveys**: Instant Census enables users to conduct interactive text message surveys, allowing participants to conveniently respond from any device with text messaging capabilities.

**Rapid Response Rates**: Instant Census boasts fast response rates, with an average survey response rate of 85% and a median response time of under two minutes for text message surveys.

**Real-Time Data Charts**: Instant Census automatically generates real-time data reports, presenting visualizations and graphs for easy analysis of aggregated and summary data.

**Simple and Intuitive**: Instant Census provides a user-friendly platform for creating and deploying surveys. The survey builder tool allows customization for adaptive studies, while the user management portal simplifies participant enrollment, deletion, and information editing.

**Security and Scalability**: Instant Census prioritizes data protection and privacy, enforcing strict data security policies. The platform is designed to handle surveys of any scale, accommodating respondent populations ranging from dozens to millions.

**Audience Recruiting**: Instant Census offers guidance and support for audience recruiting, utilizing various methods such as advertisements, social media, phone surveys, email marketing, and web forms.

**EBook Library**: Instant Census provides an extensive EBook Library with resources on SMS survey best practices, participant recruitment, and survey building.

**Engineers with a Purpose**: Instant Census has a team of experienced software engineers dedicated to developing and customizing the software to meet specific requirements.

**Powerful, Versatile, Simple**: Instant Census is a powerful and versatile text message survey platform, designed to be simple and user-friendly, catering to diverse survey needs.

**SMS Survey Optimization**: Instant Census provides guidelines for optimizing survey questions for SMS, recommending a character limit of 160 for message delivery order and supporting longer messages with appropriate technology.

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Instant Census

An online survey is a questionnaire that the target audience can complete over the Internet. Online surveys are usually created as Web forms with a database to store the answers and statistical software to provide analytics.

Zagaran

Survey Format & Appearance

Features related to the type, look & feel of surveys.

Online surveys

Paper surveys

Supports the creation of paper surveys. This might be a “print” option, and should include some mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Phone surveys

Supports the creation and/or deployment of phone surveys, including a mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Survey templates

Includes a selection of pre-made survey templates for different types of surveys.

Survey library

Includes an organization tool, such as a library, that allows the user to save, store and re-use or update past surveys.

Themes

Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.

Custom logo/branding

Allows the user to include their company logo (rather than the survey vendor’s logo) and/or create a company template so that branding is consistent across multiple surveys.

Single page survey

Survey appears on a single continuous page, rather than requiring respondents to click through to multiple pages.

Progression bar

Survey displays a progression bar so that respondents know where they are in the survey (how much completed vs. how much left).

Responsive design

Survey is optimized for a variety of screens and devices, including mobile.

Survey Content

Features related to the content (media, question types, answer types, etc) of surveys.

Multimedia content

Users can include audio, images and videos within surveys.

Drag-and-drop editor

Users can easily rearrange survey elements, such as question blocks, by dragging them into new positions.

Changes to live survey

Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.

Question bank

Includes a set of pre-made sample questions or question templates.

Question design help

Includes educational material about question design for research, such as tips, recommendations, and information about best practices.

Multiple question types

Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.

Matrix questions

Supports matrix or grid questions, such as “How often did you: eat breakfast? …exercise?...get 8 hrs of sleep?” where each subquestion has the same set of possible answers (e.g. Always / Often / Sometimes / Never).

Translation/multi-lingual

Survey Logic

Features related to survey flow, or the logic that directs survey question order.

Survey logic flexibility

Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.

Response requirement/validation

Users can require that a respondent answer before moving on or submitting, and can specify the type of response (e.g. a phone number) that will be accepted.

Skip logic

Users can include rules that cause certain questions to be skipped based on a respondent’s demographic information, answer to a previous question, or response time, for example.

Conditional questions

Users can create rules for questions that are only asked to certain respondents, or only asked if particular behavioral or demographic criteria are met.

Question branching

Users can create branching question pathways, where a respondent’s answer at a given stage determines the next set of questions they will be asked.

Piping logic

Answers provided by respondents earlier in the survey can be piped into survey questions later on. For example, if Q1 asks for the respondent’s name, Q2 can ask “What did you have for breakfast, [Name]?”

Randomization

Question order and/or question set can be randomized across the respondent pool.

Survey Reporting & Analytics

Features related to reporting & analytics for survey results.

Response tracking

Individual responses are coordinated with demographic information about the respondent. This information is stored and can be used for reporting and analysis.

Data export

Data collected within the tool can be exported to another program for additional reporting/analysis.

Real-time results

Users can view results on dashboards in real-time as they come in, rather than needing to wait to run a report or take counts after the survey is closed.

Standard reports

Includes canned reports that allow users to generate and share accurate survey results.

Custom reports

Allows users to report on custom metrics, choose which metrics to include in a report, run reports with advanced segmentation and/or customize the look and feel of a report.

Visualizations

Includes reporting or dashboard tools for visualizing survey data.

Analytics

Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.

Survey Integrations

Features that allow users to integrate a survey tool with another system or tool.

CRM Integration

Survey respondent pools or segmentations can be drawn from contacts already in the company’s CRM and/or respondents’ contact information can be pulled into the CRM.

Social media integration

Supports social sharing, posting, registration via social profile credentials, and/or embedded social content.

E-commerce integration

Integrates with e-commerce or billing/payment tools.

Testimonials widget

Allows users to excerpt and embed text or data from surveys on their website.

Survey Automation

Features related to automating/triggering survey processes such as publishing and reporting.

Notifications and alerts

Respondent behavior (including survey completion, particular responses, or opt-outs) triggers notifications.

Calendar/scheduling

Allows users to schedule start and/or end dates for surveys.

Follow-up emails

Users can set up automatic follow-up emails to survey respondents, for example a "Thank you" email or an email to share survey results.

Instant Census

Overview

What is Instant Census?