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Email survey guide – Tips, examples, and templates
Email surveys are a method of data collection used to request information using questionnaires or surveys that are sent via email to a target audience. They are a simple and direct way to gather feedback from your customers. Here’s what you need to ensure high response rates and actionability.
Every second, 45 people answer a Delighted survey
Delighted powers 300+ million surveys a year
Embedded email surveys
Easily embed a survey in an email to increase the number of survey responses and reduce customer frustration. Customers no longer need to navigate away from their inbox to submit responses with an email-embedded survey.
Email signature surveys
Want to collect instant feedback on your email correspondence? Include an email signature survey after your signoff. Customers can complete the survey by clicking on the survey link that aligns with their score.
Optimized for mobile
Delighted’s email feedback surveys are designed to work beautifully on any type of platform and device, allowing your customers to leave valuable feedback wherever they are.
Code-free customization
Customize your email survey logo and colors to match your brand directly in the Delighted email survey platform, no design or development resources required.
Add Additional Questions
Ask follow-up questions to uncover valuable insights on survey responses. Layer up to 10 custom questions within a single survey flow.
Collecting feedback is just the first step. Delighted makes it easy to act on feedback with a customizable Thank you message and automatic ticket creation in your favorite CRM solutions.
Our default email survey subject line gets industry-high open rates of 47%, but you can continue optimizing based on your audience or marketing strategy.
Write an intro message that gives context for the survey objective. Provide an incentive for participating, and let your customers know their feedback is valued.
“We really rely on Delighted for the email survey functionality. It’s really about the cycle of what’s important to customers, addressing it, following up, making sure that we’ve addressed the issue. Or, just thanking them for their time for getting back to us, sharing positive feedback, and then just repeating that cycle over and over again.”
“When we implemented Delighted, we saw a huge increase in responses, because the survey can be taken right in the email. It’s just a better customer experience.”
Email surveys via integration
Trigger email surveys from the tools you already use, such as Shopify, Stripe, Segment, Zendesk, Mailchimp, and Squarespace.
Share feedback with your entire team
Pipe all the feedback you collect back into your systems so your team can act on it, whether that’s in Slack, Salesforce, or Intercom – see our full list of integrations to explore the possibilities.
Survey throttling
Survey throttling increases response rates by ensuring that your customers are never over surveyed.
Use your own domain
Send from your own domain with a custom configured DNS at no additional cost – just get in touch and we’ll set it up.
Use our REST API to automatically survey customers after a delivery, when a guest checks out, or after a support interaction.
Upload an email list to Delighted, and specify the optimal day and time you want your surveys to be delivered. Automate delivery with Autopilot.
Need more ways to collect responses? Use web, SDK, and link surveys in the channel most comfortable for your customers.
Segment feedback in your real-time dashboard
Attach Properties to your contact list or via your integration to segment feedback by customer details – what product they purchased, which service rep they spoke with, and more.
Top advantages of an email survey
Gathering customer feedback is essential to any business, and there are several reasons why sending an in-email survey is the best way to collect actionable insights on your products and services.
Conducting surveys via email can be achieved in just a few clicks and is much faster than face-to-face data collection methods. Why? Because most email users log into their accounts daily. In fact, over 44% check their inbox between 1 and 3 times a day. The time between a recipient seeing your survey invitation email, and then responding, is minimal.
It’s easier to send a short survey in email than using other old-school popular types of collection like sending forms or a survey by mail. No specialized email survey software or coding knowledge is required to get your survey content to your audience in seconds. Use that same simplicity in a multichannel approach with website surveys, link surveys, and more.
A great advantage of sending a survey email is that you can reach multiple recipients simultaneously. After you create and save your email questions in a simple in-app experience, you will build and upload a list of selected recipients and their email addresses directly within the platform. After you hit the send button, respondents can enter their response text directly in the email for instant data capture.
Email survey results can be viewed in a real-time dashboard and analyzed with a handful of easy-to-read reporting options. Advanced AI can spot and unveil common trends that will allow management to take action on insights quicker than before, or you can create and select Filters and Trends on your own to narrow your focus on data related to specific products and services.
Why email surveys are reliable and effective
There is little point in collecting data at all if it has limited actionability. That’s why it’s essential for data to be reliable and effective. Creating a feedback survey email guarantees this in several ways.
When you email customer surveys, you allow customers the flexibility to read and respond to the email questions in their own time, making answers more accurate as they have time to consider their responses rather than being pressed for an on-the-spot reply.
Marketing automation tools keep your experience program on track. Integrations are easy to set up and combine with common tools you use every day like Salesforce, Mailchimp, and Shopify. Trigger email questionnaires, sync Net Promoter Score survey data, and more.
When you put email feedback at the center of your business and data collection strategy, it’s important to create a personalized sending experience. Customize the email subject lines with the customer’s name to capture the respondent’s attention off the bat. Take a look at our Help Center with written and video content for step-by-step customization tips.
Best practices for sending surveys
Thousands of brands choose Delighted as their email survey tool and more
Delighted has all the features you need to follow the best practices listed above: personalization, survey automation, feedback reporting, and so much more. Accessible pricing and packaging are available for companies of all sizes.
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