Here's A New Tool With Some Marketing Potential

You may have noticed that I have a poll running. Take a sec and vote. Polldaddy is embedded in Weeby and is pretty easy to use. I think the actual free Polldaddy account is even easier, and it has the benefit of offering a few more features - like quizzes! Take my Masonry Expert Quiz below to learn a bit about masonry and see how Polldaddy works/looks. BTW there are several themes/color schemes for your polls, surveys and quizzes.

How did you do?

Marketing Tool? 
Well I explain here why I think surveys are a handy marketing tool. With a survey you accomplish several things at once. 
First, you get feedback - you learn something from your audience. 
Second, with a properly worded survey, you can leave a marketing message by, say, giving the impression that you are on top of some topic that interests your audience. 
And third, you put yourself in front of your audience another time, reminding them of your existence and your brand.

Besides Marketing
There are other more mundane things that you can do with a poll, or survey. For instance, find out which date is workable for a meeting; see what the crowd thinks of going bowling; test out an idea with ratings (thumbs up/down or number of stars); you get the idea. There are a number of ways to collect the data. Besides code to embed in a website or blog, as I've done here, there are links that you could add to an email; or even create a group email with the tools on Polldaddy's site. 

My new toy will probably appear here a few more times before I am distracted by the next shiny thing.