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Get Feedback From Your Visitors with Urtak

Panah — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:41:28 +0000

Bloggers who do not pay attention to what their readers have to say are never going to keep up with those who do. No matter how smart you are and how many years of experience you have, you can’t know or see everything. That’s why asking for your readers’ opinion can give you new things to think about. Urtak is a simple-to-use feedback solution for your blog that lets you ask multiple yes/no questions from your readers and get instant feedback in return.

Urtak is not your average web poll position. Not only it gives you the opportunity to ask your visitors multiple questions, it also lets them ask their own questions. Urtak will keep track of the answers you receive and gives you everything you need to analyze your results.

While there are limits to yes/no questions, they can still give you a chance to gain some useful information from your visitors. Besides, you can always go through what others have been asking on Urtak to get more ideas.

Urtak may not have too many bells and whistles, but it delivers what it promises. It’s easy to integrate to any website as well. If you want to ask your readers a quick question (or a series of questions), Urtak can handle it.

4 Cool Tools To Create Online Polls With

Panah — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:58:18 +0000

So you want to find out what others think about a product or an idea that you have? Polls are a blogger’s best friend. They can give you ideas about the needs and wants of your visitors (audience). They can also help you develop blogging ideas. Those of you who use WordPress to manage your blog have probably tried those polls plugins in the past. Sometimes, you want to go beyond what plugins offer and give your visitors a more dynamic survey to deal with. Thankfully, there are tools for that.

If you are looking for a dynamic way to create polls online, these 4 tools are worth a try:

Polldaddy: a very flexible tool to create free and paid polls with. Its free plan is good enough to work for smaller blogs and websites. If you plan to conduct surveys on a consistent basis, you are going to need one of those more sophisticated plans. Its reports are top notch.

twtpoll: gives you an easy way to poll your Twitter followers. Can be used to created branded polls and surveys. Advanced reporting is an option too.

Urtak: more than just an online poll tool. It lets your audience add their own questions to your polls. It provides real time reports.

Twiigs: a free online tool that you can take advantage of to create and share polls with others. It has plenty of existing polls that you can go over to get ideas for your products/blogs.

There are plenty of other free tools that let you create your own polls online. Having the right tool in your hands is important, but the data that you can gather with it is even more so. Polls are great for developing new blogging ideas and learning more about your audience, so one should not cut corners when conducting them.

How Long Do You Spend On Twitter On a Daily Basis?

Panah — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:17:36 +0000

Twitter is nothing new these days. Most aspiring bloggers have gotten involved with Twitter and have started to gain momentum in this new channel. I personally got started with Twitter almost as soon as it came out. I remember using it and thinking, “this is not going to be a success.” Boy I was wrong. I wish I could’ve seen the potential back then. But now I spend about 2 hours tweeting, which is quite modest in my opinion. Here is my question for you:
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Blogging For Too Long?

Panah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:05:33 +0000

Blogging is one of the funnest things that you can do on a daily basis (other than wasting time with TV and video games). But not many of us have a chance to blog the whole day. In fact, I don’t know many people who blog more than 3 hours a day. So here is my question for you:

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Do you believe spending long hours is the key to a successful blogging career? Please share your thoughts here.

Why Do You Blog?

Panah — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:54:29 +0000

In the past few weeks, I have gone over a few reason why people blog. It’s the most essential question that one needs to answer to not only figure out whether they are on the right path, but also understand what it takes to make the next steps count. So here is my question for you. Why do you blog? Is it just for money? or maybe you are too passionate about your topic? Please share your thoughts.
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