Mike Taylor

Marketer at SurveyNinja

Mike writes the SurveyNinja blog: guides to survey design, customer and employee feedback, market research and survey data analysis. Many guides come with questions you can put in your own survey and, where it fits, a ready template.

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Getting responses

Triggered Surveys Without the Chaos

A triggered survey fires on an event instead of going out in a batch, and everything that decides whether it works sits in the rules around it. An operations guide to events, delays, capping, suppression, context, routing and the failures nobody plans for.

27 min read

Getting responses

QR Code Surveys That Actually Get Scanned

An offline business sees the queue and the receipts, never the reason someone left without buying. A practitioner guide to printed QR surveys: placement, print rules, wording, per-location URLs, and reading the funnel from scan to action.

24 min read

Getting responses

In-App Feedback Users Actually Answer

Inside your own app you choose the moment, and that control is the whole advantage. A practitioner guide to timing, prompt patterns, question wording, rate limiting, hidden context fields and what to do with the answers.

24 min read

Getting responses

Pop-Up Surveys That Get Answered Instead of Closed

A pop-up survey asks one question while the visitor is still on the page, which is why it explains behaviour that analytics can only describe. Here is how to pick a trigger, design a card people answer, cap how often it appears, and prove it is not costing you sales.

32 min read

Getting responses

Email Surveys That People Actually Answer

Email is the only survey channel where you know exactly who you invited. How to use that properly: the one-click question embedded in the message, when to send it, why most losses happen before anyone sees a question, and what a realistic completion rate looks like.

23 min read

Customer feedback

How to Build a Feedback Form

A feedback form only works when the questions match the situation. Here are the rules, the blocks a form is assembled from, and three question banks you can copy: customers, training participants, event guests.

23 min read

Survey design

How to Build an Online Quiz That Scores Itself

How to build an online quiz that grades itself: the difference between a quiz, a survey and a test, six practical steps, point weighting and pass marks, plus the mistakes that quietly ruin the results.

26 min read

Survey design

How to Create an Online Survey

The hands-on side of survey work: how to get from a blank screen to answers you can act on, including the pilot test, the distribution channel you pick and what to do once responses land.

21 min read

Survey design

How to Reduce Survey Dropout

The people who start your survey and quit halfway are your most painful loss. Here is why they leave, where they drop off, and 20+ practical ways to keep them to the end.

17 min read

Tools and comparisons

How to Migrate from Google Forms

A practical guide to leaving Google Forms: the three reasons teams switch, what to check in a replacement, and a step-by-step plan for moving your forms and the responses you have already collected.

17 min read

Customer feedback

Is NPS Outdated? What's Wrong With the Loyalty Score

NPS isn't dead, but as the single number on a dashboard it broke long ago. We gather the evidence from the original sources and show which system of metrics to put beside it to see your customer base as it really is.

31 min read

Market research

SUS: How to Measure Product Usability in Ten Questions

A practical guide to the System Usability Scale: the ten statements, how to score them step by step, what a SUS result really means, why 68 is the average, and the mistakes that quietly ruin a measurement.

14 min read