Polls Manager
Polls Manager
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The Polls Manager Module
Tip: Polls can help you research your market
Use polls to help you find out information about your target audience. Ask visitors questions that could help your marketing. |
The polls manager module enables you to poll your visitors on a topic. You can add a question and up to six answers for visitors to select from. After a visitor submits their answer, the polls manager calculates the statistics of all submitted answers and displays the results for the visitor to see.
Regularly update a poll on your home page to show visitors that your site is exciting and current. Polls also give you the opportunity to involve visitors in potential product or service upgrades. They can provide the closest form of demographic (target audience) research from your website.
Adding a poll
Tip: Use a poll to do market research
Use polls to help you find out information about your target audience. Ask them questions that could help your marketing. |
The polls manager module enables you to poll your visitors on a topic. You can add a poll to your website at any time.
- Choose Modules > Polls Manager > List All Polls.
- Click Add a Poll.
- Enter your poll question.
- Enter up to six poll answers for your visitors to choose from.
- Status: Choose to make your poll immediately available by selecting Active from the drop down box. If you wish to disable the poll or create a poll before it is required on the site, choose Inactive.
- Click the Save button. The poll appears under List All Polls.
Editing/deleting a poll
Tip:
The beauty of the polls manager is that you can try different ideas until visitors respond well to your poll. Don't expect your first poll to be voted on by every visitor to your site. Edit polls when they are not eliciting a huge response from your visitors. |
The polls manager module enables you to poll your visitors on a topic. You can update a poll question and it's answers or delete the poll at any time.
- Choose Modules > Polls Manager > List All Polls.
- Click the poll question you wish to edit or click the Edit button next to it.
- Make the relevant alterations to the poll. Click the Save button.
- Publish the website to update any poll feeds on content pages.
To delete a poll:
- Choose Modules > Poll Manager > List All Polls.
- Find the poll you wish to delete. Click the Delete button to remove the poll from the website completely. You can not undo this action.
- Publish the website to update any content pages that once contained the poll feed.
Add poll to website content page
Tip:
The best page to insert your poll is generally the home page. The home page is seen first by most of your visitors so it can potentially create the most impact. |
The polls manager module enables you to poll your visitors on a topic. Once you have added a poll to the polls manager, insert the poll into a content page on your website.
- Go to Pages > Add / Edit Pages.
- Choose a page from the main menu or unattached pages. The content editor for the page will open.
- Click on the Insert Module Content tool (it looks like a star).
- Select Polls from the Current drop down menu.
- Click Preview to preview the active poll content before it is inserted.
- Click OK to insert the poll into the page.
- Publish the website.
How do I view the results of the poll?
You can view the poll results by going to the poll feed at the front of your website. Submit a vote and you will see the results of all votes. Your visitors can also see this results page.