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Survey Monkey for the Phone - A Business on Twilio

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45 pointsgoberoi14 comments

While this business is interesting, I'd like to point out that currently 7 out of the 11 comments on this post are from accounts created within the past 12 hours.

I definitely sense fraud here. Observe the distribution of words in comments from the newly created accounts. "cool", "i like the way" and other patterns can be seen.

I'd like to give them a benefit of doubt but if they did this intentionally, too bad!

Meh, I cant speak for the rest, but I'm real. I actually have a previous account, but wanted to switch for my startup's sake.

You might not believe this, goberoi, but over the holidays I started playing around/prototyping an identical service (that is, phone polling based on twillio).

Looks like you guys have a pretty good product, good luck with it.

Cool article. I've seen precision polling demoed and it's amazing to see the analysis of call responses getting populated in realtime - totally changes the way you think about running phone surveys.

Neat to see a startup that is extending its reach beyond just the Internet and iPhones - makes it possible to reach more people than just those with an Internet connection in the home.

I really like this. It's simple and cheap.

One question. How much does computer voice affect participation. I would think a fair number of call receivers will hang up when they hear the computer. Is that true?

Fast and cheap: thanks!

Voice recording: actually, you can record your own voice by calling our recording hotline, or you can upload sound files. All of our clients run surveys in this way; the computer voice is only useful for testing while you're developing your survey. You can read more about our voice recording features here: http://www.precisionpolling.com/features/audio_setup

Very cool. I use SurveyMonkey a lot and it was high time that someone should make a similar tool for the phone.

Ease and features combined with pricing model, super affordable for tiniest of surveys. I will be a user.

great idea. I like that you can upload your own voice. I think a lot of people will start using this...particularly for political polling and smaller companies that don't need a heavyweight way to do this.

This is great. Graceful and useful tool. Best of luck!

nice - I like the way the results are shown. super simple & easy to understand

Very cool.

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