Publicate offers 3 easy ways to get feedback from your audience and understand better their interests and opinions:
1. Linking a questionnaire type of survey to your newsletter
No matter how you choose to create the actual survey (via Google Docs or a dedicated platform with free plans such as Survey Monkey or Typeform), you can link it to either a Call To Action button or to hyperlinked text by adding the survey link in the 'hyperlink field ' as shown below:
Step 1 - Add a CTA:
Step 2 - Set up your CTA hyperlink:
2. Requesting longer feedback
To get deeper/longer feedback from your readers, you could add the following type of mailto link to your Call to action button so when they click on the button, an email draft will open for them with the recipient email address and subject already populated so you reader can write their feedback and click send ✉️ :
Step 1 - Add a CTA:
Step 2 - Set up your CTA mailto link in the hyperlink field. Here is an example you can copy mailto:someone@gmail.com?subject=feedback although you'll need to replace the email 'address someone@gmail.com' with the email address you want the feedback to be sent to and eventually the 'Feedback' to any subject you prefer as this will show as the email title.
How it works for your readers:
3. Adding emoticon-based ratings and polls
To get quick feedback by offering star ratings or emoticons, for example, you'll need to:
add the images of your chosen ratings to a multi-column row: each emoticon/image needs to be added to its own column as per the example below:
create a ' thank you for voting ' newsletter that will be the page your readers will see after clicking to vote and copy its newsletter Share links by clicking the 'Share' button in the top right corner:
Go back to the newsletter that includes your poll, click edit image on each emoticon and add the copied Share link in the 'hyperlink' field:
This makes your image clickable so you'll see in analytics how many people clicked which icon, for example as shown below:
4. Send us your suggestions for the next polls/rating features
We plan on creating more easy polls and rating features so you'll be able to drag and drop the emoticons or images you prefer to use. Vote below to let us know which one you prefer to use 😃
Got questions?
If you have any other questions or we can help with anything else please just send us a note at hello@publicate.it, or use the chat window on the right.