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A key edge that virtual events have over in-person events is the ability to extract high-quality engagement data and optimize future events for even better results.
In this pursuit, event follow-up surveys are a great way to understand how your attendees interacted with your virtual event, what worked and what didn’t.
Since attendees are already using their digital machines to attend your event, they’re more likely to open post-event emails if you send them promptly. And you can always take steps to improve your survey response rate.
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Before you delve into developing a follow-up survey, you need to be clear about why you’re doing it in the first place. Mainly, it’s to improve the quality of your events and improve event ROI in the future. Here are the kinds of data you can extract:
Event follow-up surveys are typically sent via email. Here are the question types that you can ask and when’s the best time to use them.
While this is a great window of opportunity, it’s important to make the most of it by asking the right questions. Each question costs your attendees time, so it needs to be purposeful.
While you might already have this data from your virtual event platform’s reports, asking this to your sign-ups helps put their experience in context. You can filter out users who signed up for the event but didn’t attend it, and then ask them questions relevant for non-attendees. Why didn’t you come? Was it at an inconvenient time, or did you forget? This will help you improve attendance for future events.
For sign-ups that did attend, you can take them to the detailed survey where they’ll tell you more about their experience.
Here’s where a ‘No’ to the previous question should take your respondents.
If people registered for an event, why didn’t they attend it? Perhaps it was because the time clashed with their schedule, or they forgot about it. These insights will help you optimize future events, like extending the duration of the event or increasing the number of reminder emails that you send out.
This is important to understand so future events can be centered around popular goals. To make your data analysis easier, set this question as an MCQ with an ‘Other (please specify)’ option and allow respondents to select as many options as they like.
If you’re looking for more qualitative answers, set this up as an open-ended question.
Following the question “What was the goal?”, this will help gauge whether attendees were able to achieve their goal for attending the event. If the main goal for attending the event was networking with other professionals in the niche, and most attendees weren’t able to do that, then you need to work on your networking features.
Here, you’d like to learn where your efforts truly paid off. Respondents will highlight areas that were the most valuable to them so you’ll also understand what matters to them the most. If they enjoyed the speaking sessions, you could learn from that user experience to refine your other offerings as well.
This one’s just a quick way of identifying areas that need improvement.
The speaking sessions often take up a significant chunk of your event budget. Be sure to evaluate whether your attendees enjoyed them, and what could’ve been better. You can follow this up with a “What did you like/dislike about the speaking sessions?”.
With any virtual event, navigation and ease-of-use can often make or break the experience. Since virtual events are still new for a lot of attendees, they could have trouble finding their way around your venue. Ask if this was the case so you can work on this in your future events.
Interactivity and networking are also going to be a critical part of any virtual event that you do. Attendees don’t expect virtual events to recreate the engaging conversations people can have in-person but it’s important to give them the closest possible experience of it. Then, be sure to measure whether you succeeded.
This question will help evaluate the quality of your Q&A sessions. Were attendees easily able to ask questions? Were all of them answered?
Again, the visuals and audio are going to be critical to the success of an event that’s running on your computer. So, you’d like to know if everyone was easily able to hear the sessions and view the relevant visuals.
As virtual events platforms are still new, attendees struggle to benefit from them. Several variables such as the quality of audio and video, internet, software, and the user interface. You need your event to deliver a smooth user experience. If there are any lapses, technical assistance should be readily available. Or else, you won’t have any returning attendees.
Another aspect that virtual events might lack is the ease of networking. So you really need to make sure that your platform is providing a collection of different networking options to mimic the essence of in-person events. After you’ve worked on that, it’s important to evaluate whether you were successful in pleasing your attendees.
This question is important for any feedback survey that you conduct. By ending your survey with an open-ended question that ask, you let respondents give you information that you didn’t ask but were valuable to their experience.
Again, this question will help you figure out if your virtual event was a success, and who your biggest promoters are so you can target them more closely next time.
That’s it! You can always go ahead and customize this list based on your use cases but these 15 event follow-up questions offer a good place to start with an event feedback form. What’s your go-to question to ask?
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