Doodle Poll: The Best Business To Client App
Doodle Poll can help you easily create a poll in just minutes, and send it off to your participants or clients, to help them choose the best meeting time.
The Doodle Poll service has more functions than just creating meetings and schedules. You can use it to create questionnaires, surveys, and to book appointments between you and your clients. You can embed your polls on your website and your social media pages.
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In today's world creating schedules is more troubling than ever. People are busy because their calendars are packed with activities, and reaching them is very difficult. Even if you eventually reach out to them, they may forget to respond.Â
Why You Should Use a Doodle Poll
Doodle Poll can be used to get participant insight for meetings, brand awareness, events, family reunion, and many more events that include several participants.
Meetings: Use Doodle Poll to schedule a meeting. Use statistics from the poll to figure out the best date and time for meetings between you and the client. It can also be used to get the best meeting locations and extracurricular activities needed for the meeting.
Work Schedule:Â if you own a business organization such as a retail store, or a restaurant that has lots of employees working at different shifts. Creating polls makes it easier to plan out your schedule by making drafts of your employees' availability in one app.
Volunteer event: Use Doodle Poll to gather volunteers who will be available for an upcoming event. This will give you an insight into the number of possible volunteers to expect during the event date.
Family Reunions:Â Use this to get responses and other information from family members about dates, time, and location for a reunion or other family events. This is useful for reaching out to family members who are out of town.
Event planner:Â This can be a guide for planning your event. Send out polls and estimate a list of guests that will be available for your event. Also, it will help you decide the best date for hosting the event.
Class schedules:Â Lecturers and students can get insights on interest levels for school activities. Pick the best day, date, and time of the day for setting up seminars, classes, course lectures, and field trips.
Social gatherings:Â Having a game night, group camping trips, cookout, park playdate, girls' night out, or hosting a house party? Determine the interest level of your friends before setting a date.Â
How to use Doodle Poll
- This article is a practical guide that will assist you with the basics of creating Doodle polls.
- First go to the Doodle Poll official website by clicking here.
- Start your doodle poll by choosing "Create a doodle", this can be found at the top of the page.
- Then, put in the title of the pool, the location of the poll, Finally add a pool note which is optional. This method Is for those who want to create an appointment using a doodle poll.
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If you want to create a survey or a questionnaire you should choose text
when filling out the form and add any questionnaire you like.
Extra Tip: If you want to create a meeting schedule, create multiple options for times and dates so that your clients can choose the best time which they are available. This will give you more appointments with your clients at a more suitable time. Linking your Doodle account with your calendar helps you to see your appointments when creating a new doodle. This will help you avoid double-booking or overbooking yourself.
- Next use the settings to create a poll option.
You can make the pool a yes or no questionnaire. This is also good if you want to ask your participants if the indicated time is ideal for them.
Additional Doodle Poll Settings
- Limit participants to a single vote:Â This will remove the multiple option function in your pool, your participants will be able to choose just one option and move to the next question.
- Limit the number of votes per option: this is a first-come-first-serve feature that allows you to set the number of spots available for participants to pick after that number has been gotten, no more voting is allowed.
- Hidden pools: You can turn on participants' votes, and comments to be visible publicly, usually only you can see the results but you can make it open if it's a public poll.
- State deadlines:Â You can motivate your participants to vote early by setting a deadline after which all voting ends.
- Set automatic reminders: this feature allows you to invite participants to vote and also reminders are sent to them at the selected times, encouraging them to vote.
- Ask for contact information: this is a good feature if you want to keep in touch with your participants. It can be used by business organizations and brands for keeping up with their customers. Contacting them, adding them to their email list, or getting more inquiries about their choices in a questionnaire.Â
After choosing the settings and saving them, the next step is to add your email and your name. Then send your doodle out to your guests and participants. You can invite participants to your doodle by adding their emails to the box that is provided to send out invites.
Choose the final date for the Poll and make sure you let your participants know about the deadline. Doodle Polls are the best way to schedule meetings and create interactions between customers and brands.
Extra tip: Create an account with Doodle Poll if you want to create multiple polls. This will make you always have access to editing them and getting statistics from them. In your account you can sync your address book and calendar to better handle your scheduling and invitations.Â
Things You Should note about Doodle Poll
Is Doodle Poll Free?
Doodle Poll is a free to use service. Although there is a premium version of the Doodle poll that requires payment, most of the features are free. You can track all your doodles in an easy-to-use dashboard.Â
If you want to add subdomains and customized graphics to your polls, you have to pay for the premium Doodle account. Also, if you want an ad-free experience for you and your participants then you should create a premium Doodle account.
A free account makes it easier to send invitations to your contacts. An account also makes certain parts of your doodle easy to create, such as entering your name and your email address.
Can Doodle polls be anonymous?
Absolutely they can! You can make your poll options hidden to the public when creating your pool. Simply tick the box next to the hidden poll option. This will make only you (the poll creator) see the results from the poll. Most polls are a great option to use if you want your participants' choice to be confidential for important information like scheduling interviews.
How long can the Doodle Poll stay?
A Doodle Poll will remain active in your dashboard for the next three months
after the last day it got interaction from a participant. If you don't
set a deadline for your poll and participants keep interacting with it then
the pool stays forever. Polls created by premium accounts will stay forever
even if no one interacts with them for more than three months.
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