The EventPoint Focus Group Surveys tool is a multi-page deployment that dedicates a single page to each group participating in the Focus Group Surveys deployment, providing a collaborative effort across the event between associated groups. The goal is to present a targeted delivery of relevant Focus Group Surveys material to the relevant subset of the attendee base. The process of creating content for the Focus Group Surveys is managed wholly by each focus group sponsor. Each page within the survey is reviewed and published by the event administrator or manager.

Reporting for the Focus Group Surveys consists of two reports for each group/page defined, as well as aggregate statistics rolled-up across the entire attendee base. The two reports for each group are:

1. The Flat File report is a flat data dump of all survey responses for the page. The field labels for each question are edited in the Focus Group Report Editor.
2. The Rollup report renders the survey responses in an aggregated structure. Depending upon the question structure this format will be either an average of all responses offered or a percentage-style aggregation for each question.

You use surveys all the time. Session Evaluations, Event Evaluations, Marketing and General Interest Surveys, User Profile and Data Collection, etc. Speed your time to market by using the EventPoint General Purpose Surveys tool.

The General Purpose Surveys tool allows event managers to create and publish surveys by following simple instructions presented to the user in a wizard-style format. The General Purpose Surveys tool may be used by planners to:

1. Generate Overall Event Evaluations
2. Publish Speaker & Sessions Evaluations
3. Create general-purpose surveys for sponsors, product groups, etc.
4. Design and implement any generic data collection that will benefit event participants

Links to Speaker & Session Evaluations may be enabled directly in the agenda, sessions, and calendar interfaces by the planner. All surveys may also be reached through custom navigation links, created by the event administrator or planner. All survey and evaluation results are available in real-time reports.

The General Purpose Survey tool is used to collect profile information about attendees, speakers, exhibitors, vendors, or anyone or anything the event planner desires. Creating a survey and publishing to a group of people, when used with the EventPoint Mass Emailing tool features, can be completed in a matter of minutes. Furthermore, advanced tools allow planners to create or edit surveys offline and synch with the program at a later date.

Highlighted features include:

• Comprehensive out of the box reports
• Ad-hoc reporting for additional reports
• Associations with users, companies, groups, sessions, and other objects in the system
• One-click publishing
• Role-based access
• Integration with custom content (HTML) pages
• Integrated email notifications
• Integration with other EventPoint controls
• Offline editing and synchronization

With the EventPoint Survey tool there is no need to build a special database to collect information from your attendees or exhibitors. Simple create the survey in your web browser, and get it online in today!

The Overall Event Evaluations tool is one of the most important feedback channels from your attendees after the event. The feedback obtained from attendees will help you adapt where necessary in order to ensure your event remains competitive year after year. The EventPoint platform provides the event manager a wizard-style interface for the creation and publishing of this survey. Highlighted features include:

• Comprehensive custom reports out of the box
• Ad-hoc reporting for additional reports
• One-click publishing
• Role-based access
• Integration with custom content (HTML) pages
• Integrated email notifications to increase response rate

The overall evaluation may be custom-tailored for your event, or built off the EventPoint standard evaluation form.

In order to increase the response rates of the overall evaluation users may be targeted with a personalized email including an embedded, encrypted URL pointing to that individual user's response. This facilitates simple "one-click" response to a request to complete an evaluation.

The EventPoint Session Evaluations tool is an industry benchmark for determining how effectively your content has been presented. The tool makes it easy to prepare and publish these surveys and solicit feedback from attendees. It also provides intuitive interfaces to complete evaluations by timeslot or track, while the integrated reporting interface provides robust real-time results to speakers, managers, and others with reporting access.

The evaluations may also be deployed on kiosks at the event to increase the attendee response rate. Evaluations may be integrated with the EventPoint Attendee Portal in order to provide attendees with a personalized home page and quick links to the evaluations for sessions they have most recently attended.

You’ve published your content, and you have registered attendees. It’s time to get their feedback prior to finalizing your agenda for the event. The EventPoint Session Preference Survey tool provides users with an opportunity to stack-rank those sessions they are most likely to attend. You take these results and:

• Use the data to finalize the session list, and/or
• Use the data to schedule the most popular sessions into times and rooms that work

For added benefit, you have the option of taking attendee session preferences and rolling them into a default personalized schedule for each attendee.