SMS and Text Surveys: Ask Questions and Gather Feedback

SMS surveys are a powerful tool for connecting with your audience, collecting their thoughts, and boosting engagement.

  • Send mobile surveys to groups
  • Collect votes by text and tally results!
  • Follow up with respondents
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How Text Message Surveys Work

Text message surveys allow you to send a series of questions to your customers or employees to request their feedback. Whether you need to measure satisfaction with NPS scores or collect votes for a contest, text surveys can help.

Watch along with our on-demand demo to learn how to set up a popular type of survey known as “text to vote.” To participate, all your audience has to do is text a keyword to your number. They’ll instantly receive a message with multiple-choice options. Then they just text in their choice and our platform will tally the results!

Benefits of SMS Surveys

Why do text message or SMS surveys work? Because people always check their phones.

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Fast Feedback
Inspire members who haven’t been around in a while to return. Send the highlights from the latest service they missed.

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Engagement at Scale
Make your subscribers feel valued and included by asking for their input and sending them the survey results.

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Automatic Responses
Customize your SMS survey and automatically send out a thank-you-text to everyone who replies with an answer

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Simplicity All Around
Your subscribers will love how easy it is to take an SMS survey. And you’ll love how easy it is to set one up.

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Affordable Info
A text message survey will only run you a few pennies per text. Cost-effective consumer insights, anyone?

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Reach More People
Everyone has a cellphone, and everyone reads their texts. Reach people, even when you don’t have their email address.

3 Ways to Send SMS Surveys

Need to collect votes, feedback, or NPS scores? We make it easy to send the right type of text message survey to your customers.

Grow Your List and Gather Votes

TEXT TO VOTE SURVEYS

Grow Your List and Gather Votes

Text to Vote Surveys are a great tool to collect feedback and grow your list. Send “TextSurveys” to 900900 to see how it works!
  • Let anyone vote on your next decision
  • Make fans and customers feel involved
  • Engage your crowd in a fun and easy way

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POLL SUBSCRIBERS

Gives Subscribers a Voice with Polls

Send a text survey to your existing customers’ phones with our multiple choice polling feature.

  • Ask customers to provide feedback
  • See instant, real-time results
  • Follow up with participants automatically

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Send Links to Your Favorite Survey Sites

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Send Links to Your Favorite Survey Sites

Create a survey with dedicated survey software like SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, or Typeform and then link to it within your text message 😊
  • Track click-through rates
  • Send automated reminders
  • Segment your audience by participation

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Why Choose SimpleTexting For Your Text Surveys?

Work with the text message survey software trusted by brands across the U.S. Just take a look at the results our customers see:

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How SoGal Empowers Entrepreneurs and Gathers Feedback by Text

SoGal is a nonprofit whose mission is to close the diversity gap in entrepreneurship and venture capital. Find out how text messages help them measure their impact.

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Why Wake Forest University Uses Texting in Their Long-Term Research Study

Collecting daily information from nearly 150 participants is tricky. Find out why the team at WFU turned to text messages to facilitate their research.

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SimpleTexting SMS Surveys

Gather important feedback and stay top-of-mind with your subscribers in just a few clicks. Plus, you can try our SMS survey service free for two weeks.

Set Up Fast
Our team can get you up and running (or texting) within a day so you can launch your SMS survey ASAP.

Send SMS Surveys
Send your surveys in seconds and get results back from your contacts just as fast. When you send surveys over SMS, you can be sure you’re reaching your audience efficiently and instantly.

Analyze Your Results
With SimpleTexting’s easy-to-read analytics page, you can get answers on what’s working on your SMS surveys and what can be improved so your messages perform better each time you send them.

Customer Service
When you reach out to our team for help, you can be sure you’re connecting with a real person who not only knows their stuff when it comes to text marketing, but who wants to see you succeed and is willing to help you in any way they can.

AI Message Generator
It takes time to write effective texts, and inspiration can be hard to come by. To help you with text message writer’s block, SimpleTexting built AI Assist — a ChatGPT-powered text message generator.

Unlimited Contacts and Keywords
You get unlimited opt-in keywords and text contacts with SimpleTexting, meaning you can create as many keywords as you’d like for your polls and surveys.

SMS Survey Ideas

Need some ideas for an SMS survey? Here are a few quick industry-specific brainstorms to help you get started.

Ask your congregation for input on the next sermon series, find out their availability for events, or request feedback regarding those events.
Churches
Invite customers to vote on their favorite menu item, send them service satisfaction questionnaires, or offer discounts in exchange for leaving reviews.
Restaurants
Encourage supporters to spread the word about an upcoming fundraiser, share their schedule for volunteer opportunities, or vote on themes for fundraisers.
Nonprofits
Improve your quality of care and patient satisfaction by uncovering insights about your practice. Plus, you can use SimpleTexting to send appointment reminders!
Doctors Offices
Gather feedback and ideas from attendees after an event, find out what artists or shows people are interested in seeing, or investigate the quality of your on-site amenities.
Entertainment Venues
Share customer satisfaction surveys out after each purchase, learn what products or deals interest them, or assess the efficiency of your customer support services.
E-commerce
Have a “how did you hear about us” survey on hand to learn more about your customer base, find out how well your location stands up to competitors, or ask your audience their opinion on upcoming sales or specials.
Retail

SMS Survey Examples

Now that you know more about SMS surveys and how you can use them, let’s look at a few examples of how these surveys look in real life.

Text to Vote (Multiple-Choice Polls)
What should our next product launch include?
  • Beanies
  • Tri-blend t-shirts
  • Joggers

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) Score
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your most recent purchase experience?

Feedback Q&A
What did you think about our recent webinar?

Frequently Asked Questions About SMS Surveys

After nearly a decade sending SMS surveys, we’ve received a lot of questions. These are the most common.

What are the response rates of SMS surveys?
Response rates to SMS surveys are impressive. 98% of text messages are opened, 90% within three minutes, and the average SMS response rate to surveys across different industries is 42%.
We offer several options for sending surveys. You can use text to vote to collect feedback, engage your SMS list with polls, or send links to your favorite dedicated survey software like SurveyMonkey.
The cost of sending an SMS survey depends on how many texts you plan to send. The more you send, the lower the cost per credit. Our plans start at $29 per month for 500 credits. You can visit our pricing page for more info!
SMS surveys are helpful for gathering in-store or website visit feedback, product purchase feedback, and customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey feedback. Check out this guide for a full list of SMS survey examples.
Looking at the numbers, it seems that SMS surveys are more effective. The average response time for a text message is 60x faster than email, and response rates to SMS marketing are 7.5x higher than email.
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Published: August 11th 2023