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Best survey tool?

I would like to survey 1,000 people with a short, <5 question survey. Gender pop/mass market... even international is fine. Gender balance would be nice (which is why I can't post it here on IH! :) Anyway-- Google surveys and Pollfish are about $1/per complete at minimum. I posted to reddit/r/samplesize about a year ago and only got 100 responses. I guess I could try again.. maybe it's only 3 questions I'll get more responses? I think the previous one was 20 questions. Any other services or opportunities to reach survey responders that I'm missing?

on February 14, 2020
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    This is the strategy I follow for "Recruiting Audience". You can give it a try.

    1. Your own network first - friends, family, colleagues, and contacts. Build an email list send it to them. Send reminders / follow ups.
    2. Snowball sampling method with recommendations.
    3. Write a blog post describing the research and add the survey link at the end.
    4. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/surveysharing/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/698363963614551, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1376853029260212/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/1255012211233315/
    5. LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12056432/,
    6. Twitter with hashtags as #survey #surveys #marketresearch #research
    7. Websites for free participants.. https://www.surveycircle.com/en, https://surveyswap.io/, https://www.callforparticipants.com/,
    8. Post QR codes of the surveys on University notice board.
    9. On tablet and meet people face to face.
    10. Reddit r/SampleSize ( you have mentioned it )

    My name is Wilson, maker of https://blocksurvey.io - privacy-focused survey platform. It's free to use now. Please do give it a try. One of the problems for market research is the cost, I'm working towards solving this in my platform.

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      Thank you Wilson! I requested to join a bunch of these groups. Unfortunately, a lot of them are for academic researchers only so I might not be able to access them. I tried SurveySwap the last time (a year ago) and didn't get many results. Also-- I was primarily looking for a US market at the time and most respondents seemed to be elsewhere.

      I am going to see how many I can get through all these free channels.... then maybe pay for another sampling through pollfish.

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    I’m afraid you’ll get the same outcome no matter you’re on Google form, survey monkey, Typeform or whatever.

    Trying to focus on the top 3-5 hypothese if possible. Asking a stranger to complete a 20+ questions will be a loophole, you either get invalid response or people ignore your survey.

    Make sure you’re incentivizing respondents and identify the right audience.

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      The old one was 20 questions, the new one is 5. I posted it elsewhere in the community but here it is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MLF23YJ