SurveyGold #1 Business Software on Download.com
SurveyGold, a flexible survey software solution for conducting online and offline surveys, achieved notoriety this month as it became the #1 rated software title atop the list of nearly 8,000 business and marketing software titles on the popular CNET Download.com web site. The rating is based on a combination of user reviews, a five-star rating by CNET editors, and on download popularity.
Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) July 27, 2006 -- Guess who sits atop the list of top-rated business software titles on the CNET Download.com web site? It's not OpenOffice.org, PortableApps Suite , or even eBay Desktop. Not even. It’s SurveyGold, a survey software solution that has consistently been in the top five top-rated titles on the Download.com site for months and recently reached the coveted #1 rated software title during the first week of July 2008. The rating is based on a combination of user reviews, a five-star rating by CNET editors, and on download popularity.
SurveyGold 8 software provides the ability to create and conduct online surveys, as well as paper-based and in-person surveys. It is used by over 50,000 customers worldwide and is very popular with schools, universities, research laboratories and charitable non-profit organizations. The software installs on a notebook or desktop computer and makes it easy to create and deploy web surveys, collect results and produce reports and analysis outside of the confines of a web browser. It provides a low price point, ease of use and distinctive features that make it stand apart from the other survey solutions.
"We've consistently been in one of the top five positions for months now. Even so, I was delighted to learn of our #1 rating on Download.com," said Chuck Boudreau of Golden Hills Software, the company that produces SurveyGold. “We strive to make the experiencing of doing surveys fun, fluid and easy for people who use SurveyGold."
SurveyGold provides a fundamentally different experience than the purely hosted web survey providers like SurveyMonkey or Zoomerang. SurveyGold is similar to those products in that they are all priced comparably and create web surveys and collect and analyze the result. But, that is where the similarities stop.
"For example, people who use web-hosted survey solutions know a thing or two about the hourglass, the screen flicker and the three to five second pause that occurs every time they click a button to perform an action in a web-hosted survey solution. That doesn't happen with SurveyGold because the software is running right on the survey author's computer. People are looking for a more fluid survey authoring and data reporting experience. SurveyGold provides that."
SurveyGold makes it easy for people to place their web survey forms either on their own sites or on the SurveyGold site. For those who are concerned about branding, their web surveys can be put on a site with their domain name using their branding elements. But, for those people who just want to get a web survey up and distributed quickly, they can deploy their web survey to the SurveyGold site with the click of a button. SurveyGold also make it easy to quickly create and conduct surveys in an offline way such as paper-based, in-person or over-the-phone.
"For all the benefits of being connected to the web, there are liabilities in having your survey data and reporting capabilities only accessible online via a web browser. In contrast, survey responses are collected into SurveyGold. This makes it possible for our people to enter responses and perform analysis and reporting while their computer is disconnected from the Internet. Purely web-hosted solutions providers can't do that."
"We are creating new options for survey deployment using SurveyGold. For example, we are developing a kiosk feature that provides for the ability to collect responses at conferences, registration desks and other opportunistic locations using the author's laptop, a stand-alone computer or kiosk hardware. In addition, SurveyGold web surveys work in smartphones such as the Treo and iPhone browsers, too. All of these options provide maximum flexibility for busy survey authors to conduct surveys gather their results."
About SurveyGold Software:
SurveyGold provides a lot of value for its $199 price (US dollars) including unlimited web surveys and responses, reporting and analysis tools, and collaborative features found in higher priced survey software solutions. Non-profit organizations, students and staff of academic institutions should take note of the discounted price of only $99. Existing customers can upgrade for $79. Group license discounts are also available.
SurveyGold is a registered trademark of Golden Hills Software, Inc. SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, OpenOffice, PortableApps, iPhone, Treo and eBay are the registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Established in 1999, Golden Hills Software distributes and sells SurveyGold software exclusively via the Internet. A full-featured free version is available from the company web site.
Contact:
Chuck Boudreau
Golden Hills Software, Inc.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
719-660-9888
chuck@surveygold.com
http://www.surveygold.com
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Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) July 27, 2006 -- Guess who sits atop the list of top-rated business software titles on the CNET Download.com web site? It's not OpenOffice.org, PortableApps Suite , or even eBay Desktop. Not even. It’s SurveyGold, a survey software solution that has consistently been in the top five top-rated titles on the Download.com site for months and recently reached the coveted #1 rated software title during the first week of July 2008. The rating is based on a combination of user reviews, a five-star rating by CNET editors, and on download popularity.
SurveyGold 8 software provides the ability to create and conduct online surveys, as well as paper-based and in-person surveys. It is used by over 50,000 customers worldwide and is very popular with schools, universities, research laboratories and charitable non-profit organizations. The software installs on a notebook or desktop computer and makes it easy to create and deploy web surveys, collect results and produce reports and analysis outside of the confines of a web browser. It provides a low price point, ease of use and distinctive features that make it stand apart from the other survey solutions.
"We've consistently been in one of the top five positions for months now. Even so, I was delighted to learn of our #1 rating on Download.com," said Chuck Boudreau of Golden Hills Software, the company that produces SurveyGold. “We strive to make the experiencing of doing surveys fun, fluid and easy for people who use SurveyGold."
SurveyGold provides a fundamentally different experience than the purely hosted web survey providers like SurveyMonkey or Zoomerang. SurveyGold is similar to those products in that they are all priced comparably and create web surveys and collect and analyze the result. But, that is where the similarities stop.
"For example, people who use web-hosted survey solutions know a thing or two about the hourglass, the screen flicker and the three to five second pause that occurs every time they click a button to perform an action in a web-hosted survey solution. That doesn't happen with SurveyGold because the software is running right on the survey author's computer. People are looking for a more fluid survey authoring and data reporting experience. SurveyGold provides that."
SurveyGold makes it easy for people to place their web survey forms either on their own sites or on the SurveyGold site. For those who are concerned about branding, their web surveys can be put on a site with their domain name using their branding elements. But, for those people who just want to get a web survey up and distributed quickly, they can deploy their web survey to the SurveyGold site with the click of a button. SurveyGold also make it easy to quickly create and conduct surveys in an offline way such as paper-based, in-person or over-the-phone.
"For all the benefits of being connected to the web, there are liabilities in having your survey data and reporting capabilities only accessible online via a web browser. In contrast, survey responses are collected into SurveyGold. This makes it possible for our people to enter responses and perform analysis and reporting while their computer is disconnected from the Internet. Purely web-hosted solutions providers can't do that."
"We are creating new options for survey deployment using SurveyGold. For example, we are developing a kiosk feature that provides for the ability to collect responses at conferences, registration desks and other opportunistic locations using the author's laptop, a stand-alone computer or kiosk hardware. In addition, SurveyGold web surveys work in smartphones such as the Treo and iPhone browsers, too. All of these options provide maximum flexibility for busy survey authors to conduct surveys gather their results."
About SurveyGold Software:
SurveyGold provides a lot of value for its $199 price (US dollars) including unlimited web surveys and responses, reporting and analysis tools, and collaborative features found in higher priced survey software solutions. Non-profit organizations, students and staff of academic institutions should take note of the discounted price of only $99. Existing customers can upgrade for $79. Group license discounts are also available.
SurveyGold is a registered trademark of Golden Hills Software, Inc. SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang, OpenOffice, PortableApps, iPhone, Treo and eBay are the registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Established in 1999, Golden Hills Software distributes and sells SurveyGold software exclusively via the Internet. A full-featured free version is available from the company web site.
Contact:
Chuck Boudreau
Golden Hills Software, Inc.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
719-660-9888
chuck@surveygold.com
http://www.surveygold.com
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