How to Share Assessments for Maximum Brand Impact

by | 26 July 2021 | Solutions

It’s no secret that assessments are a great way to engage with your audience and share your expertise.

So – what are the next steps once you’ve created a stellar assessment, and are ready to share it with current or prospective customers?

With Assessment Generator, we’ve made the process easy and seamless:

You’ll receive a unique URL (where ‘0000’ is the unique identifier for your assessment):

https://app.assessmentgenerator.com/assessment/0000

This works well in most situations – you can link to the assessment from your website, post it to social media, or send it via email. This is a great option if you’re trying to engage your current email list in a new way, or reach a wider audience on social media.

What if you want to limit the distribution of your assessment?

You may not want everyone to have access to an assessment. This could be for any number of reasons, including:

  • Your assessment is only to be used internally by existing clients
  • It’s only available if the respondent has paid a fee first
  • It contains some intellectual property you don’t want widely distributed
  • You want your assessment URL to reflect your brand

Whether it’s to emphasize your brand, keep visitors on your website, or protect your intellectual property, we’ve got you covered!

Assessment Generator offers 3 distinct approaches that allow you to hide, encrypt or change your assessment URL:

Embed your assessment in an iframe

An iframe allows you to embed your assessment within your website, so your visitors can take the assessment without leaving your site. Choose where on your site you’d like to showcase your assessment – whether that’s a dedicated page that also includes your site’s menu items, or alongside other brand elements you’d like clients to see and potentially engage with.

This capability is available with all of our subscription plans. Check out Sharing Your Assessment in our User Guide for details.

Encrypt your assessment URL

This approach modifies your URL so that the exact format is hidden from respondents when shared. In addition, once someone opens your assessment, the URL shown in the browser address bar instantly changes to an address that cannot be used or copied. Meanwhile, the respondent can still complete the assessment normally. This is a great option for paid assessments and really gives them an exclusive, made-for-you feel.

This feature is available for Advanced and higher subscriptions. You can also sign up for a 2-week free trial of our software, which allows you to test out our Advanced-level features!

Use a custom subdomain

With Private Label subscriptions, you can set up a custom subdomain on your website for your assessment. Creating a custom subdomain is an effective way to designate a custom URL for your assessment.

This capability offers an additional level of professionalism and integration for your assessments; it truly helps them appear to be a seamless extension of your brand (which they are!) For example, your assessment URL could look like: https://assessment.YourCompany.com

Learn more about how to Personalize your Assessments with your Private Label account in our User Guide for details.

We want your assessments to work for you!

We’ve designed Assessment Generator to work seamlessly with your current business practices so that you can reach new heights. Whether you’re building a new audience, looking to better engage with your current customers, or simply gain helpful data along the way about people who come in contact with your brand, our assessments can help you work smarter and more efficiently.

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How Entrepreneurs Can Use Assessments To Manage Growth

How Entrepreneurs Can Use Assessments To Manage Growth

by | 8 July 2021 | Solutions

The word “assessment” can mean different things and conjure up different thoughts with every person.

I’m no psychologist, but I’m willing to say it may go back to grade school and the dreaded test day. No matter how much we were sure that we did our best on a test, we could’ve missed something and we might receive a disappointing grade.

It can be the same in business – if you keep doing the same things that you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get the same results. It’s easy to continue coasting along with that cozy illusion that we’re exactly where we think we are and need to be.

However, when it comes to our business, this tack of ‘looking in the mirror’ is counter to what we should be doing.

The reality is that when it comes to our business, tracking business performance is essential at any stage. As a company owner or an entrepreneur, you need to be aware of your business’s strengths and weaknesses.

As an analytical tool that provides a clear picture of your business—where it stands, where it is going—and the factors affecting your growth, a periodic assessment is essential to achieving your goals.

So, while many entrepreneurs think that assessments are simply used to point out the status of their business, client, or customer, a successful entrepreneur will use assessments to see opportunities for growth.

How to Conduct Business Assessments

Every business assessment should consider 4 factors.

  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • Opportunities
  • Threats

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, or SWOT are the key ingredients that business owners should consider when analyzing the competition and planning effective strategies for the future. A SWOT analysis should be applied to the several departments integral to a company’s success.

We offer a set of pre-written Business and Entrepreneurship assessments that will help you understand where your business is today and identify areas that need improvement. The best part is that these assessments have already been written and are ready to go today!

An assessment is more than just taking the temperature of your business; rather, an effective assessment will help guide you toward the optimal track for growth. An effective assessment will enable you to translate your vision for your business into reality. Taking the same assessment every three to four months will show the gains you’ve made in striving for enhancing your business.

Use Assessment Generator to automate your assessments and get results quickly.

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Assessments and the Science of Persuasion

Assessments and the Science of Persuasion

by | 21 June 2021 | Solutions

Assessments are a great way to leverage the proven science of persuasion in order to get your message across and attract new customers.

In his widely acclaimed book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Dr. Robert Cialdini describes seven principles of persuasion that marketers in the world overuse in their efforts to sell products and influence decisions.

Here’s how you can use an assessment to leverage the science of persuasion to attract new clients:

Reciprocity

When people are given something, they feel the need to reciprocate. This is a deep-seated psychological norm engrained in who we are as humans. When you offer an assessment, not only are you asking questions and collecting the responses, you are also providing feedback to the respondent in the form of a personalized analysis of their results. Assessment Generator offers three ways to provide automatic feedback from an assessment:

  • In a Simple assessment (providing a single score), you can define any number of score bands and provide different feedback depending on how the respondent scored.
  • In a Type-Based assessment (providing a separate score in each of several types or categories that you define) you can define content to provide depending on which type the respondent scored highest (or lowest) in. Here are some examples of how you might use this type of scoring:
    • Identifying a dominant personality type
    • Showing which aspect of life a respondent could use help with
  • Another way to use a Type-Based assessment is to define score bands for each type. Then you can provide specific, score-based feedback for every type you’ve defined in your assessment.

This analysis represents something of value that you’ve given to the respondent for free. When you next reach out to them, start out by reminding them about the analysis they received from their assessment. This leverages the Commitment norm (see below) since they’re no longer a cold contact — you’ve had a previous interaction. It also leverages the Reciprocity norm — you’ve given something for free, and they will want to reciprocate by engaging with you further.

Commitment

People like to be consistent and to be seen as consistent. Once someone has completed your assessment, they’ve made an investment in you and will be more likely to engage with you in the future. This combined with the reciprocity norm is strong motivation to further engage with your brand.

By itself, just completing the assessment leads to a level of commitment. You can also take it a step further and offer a one-on-one introductory session after completing your assessment. Provide a link to your schedule and allow your respondent to sign up for a time slot with you. Once they’ve made the commitment to meet with you, you’ll have the opportunity to talk with them one-on-one.

Authority and Social Proof

When you’re designing your assessment, be sure to leverage the authority you have in your subject area. If you have an advanced degree, mention that. People are more likely to engage with someone they see as a credentialed professional. If your authority stems from experience rather than education, you can use that just as effectively.

Providing a convincing argument that your assessment and the feedback you’re providing was designed based on expertise gained through formal education or life-long experience will give respondents an extra incentive to take the time to complete your assessment, evaluate the feedback it provides, and engage further with you.

Combine authority with social proof by mentioning the number of people you’ve helped and how they’ve achieved their goals as a result of your expertise.

Assessments are a great way to leverage the proven science of persuasion to help generate more leads, more qualified contacts, and ultimately more satisfied customers.

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Provide Maximum Value for Your Webinar

Provide Maximum Value for Your Webinar

by | 3 June 2021 | Solutions

Many webinar leaders tend to follow a pre-designed outline they created specifically for that class.

But if you’re not sure what you should cover in your webinar, or if you simply want to WOW your participants with the value they receive, follow this simple strategy:

Ask them what they want to know!

Put together an assessment or a questionnaire and ask each participant to complete it before the class.

Here are a few sample questions you may want to ask them:

  • What attracted you to this class?
  • What do you expect to get out of it as a result?
  • Which questions would you like to get answered?
  • What are your biggest problems or challenges at this time?
  • What have you done so far to solve your problems?

The information you receive from your participants will give you a much better idea of what they expect from your webinar.

And happy participants means more business!

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After the webinar, you may send out another survey to get a better idea of how the class went and how you can improve it next time.

Some sample questions to ask are:

  • What new information did you take away with you?
  • What did you want to know that wasn’t covered?
  • How was the class helpful to you?

…and so on.

Follow-up is extremely important for webinar leaders and…

Assessment Generator is a great tool to use for building surveys like these.

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Validation Is Here

Validation Is Here

by | 27 April 2021 | Lead Generating, Solutions

When you want to provide a little extra formatting guidance in your assessment, validation text entry questions might be the solution you’re looking for.

Validate data

Validate Your Respondent’s Answers

Using Validated Text Entry Questions, you can take an extra step to ensure that your respondents format their answers correctly.

Ask your respondents for an email address, date, or URL, and their answer will be confirmed to be in the correct format.

Please note that our software is not able to verify that the email address, date, or URL entered is accurate, only that its format is consistent with acceptable standards for those data types.

Results are largely consistent across browsers Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, IOS, and Safari for email and URL validation though the user experience does vary slightly depending on the platform.

Date validation is unfortunately not currently available on Safari, so for now we recommend using any of the other browsers for this purpose.

Please check out Adding Validated Text Entry Questions in our User Guide for details.

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Demand Generation Vs. Lead Generation: The Basic Difference

Demand Generation Vs. Lead Generation: The Basic Difference

by | 9 April 2021 | Lead Generating, Solutions

The rise of digital transformation has undoubtedly taken over conventional marketing techniques. Since the majority of customers are now active online, many businesses are shifting to digital forums to get more traffic and generate long-term profits. Whether you’ve recently launched your e-commerce business or aim to improve brand awareness through high web and social media traffic, you need to understand digital marketing basics.

Novice marketers often confuse lead generation with demand generation because the two overlap in certain areas, however, their goals are entirely different.

Confused about these two terms? Don’t worry! This breakdown will help you figure out the basic difference so you can effectively implement these techniques in your digital strategy as you outgrow competition and grow your business.

What Is Demand Generation?

Demand generation is a process through which you can spread awareness about your business by identifying the audience and its needs through inbound marketing and high-quality content. It’s a branding technique that attracts a pool of customers and clients towards your product and service. Once you gain recognition, you are more likely to generate PR and influence your customers’ purchasing pattern by creating a buzz.

Demand generation is all about reaching new markets and promoting your product and services in the most effective manner to drive intended results. Unlike other marketing techniques, demand generation will help you maintain your customer base by building a long-term relationship with them. The focus on the customers’ needs is essential and can be quite effective if you want to keep them interested in your business.

One of the tried and tested ways to achieve this is through an assessment from Assessment Generator that helps collect relevant data about your customers. With this technique, you can digitize your strategy to learn what your audience desires the most.

Demand Generation Content

  • Online Assessments
  • Blogs
  • Infographics
  • Slideshares
  • Free Tools
  • Video Marketing
  • Social Media Posts
  • Interviews
  • Podcasts
  • Case studies
  • E-books
  • Email Campaigns

What Is Lead Generation?

Lead Generation is all about converting your visitors into qualified leads by getting their attention. Once you get them interested in your products, they become a lead. In simple words, it’s a way to use the Call-To-Action (CTA) feature to funnel in visitors through your online platforms. Creating unambiguous CTAs help direct them to your landing page(s), where they will find an online assessment or a contact information form.

You can use this assessment to offer valuable feedback to your customer.

For instance, you have a fitness product; you can use the assessment to help them learn how many calories they are supposed to consume to lose weight. This valuable offer will act as a two-way interaction between you and a potential consumer, giving you qualified leads for your business. Similarly, when they fill out their contact information, they permit you to reach out to them and provide them with the desired information or content.

Lead Generation is all about directing your visitors to your product so that they are looking forward to what you have to offer, ultimately influencing them to buy your product in the future.

Lead Generation Content

Want to capture leads and attract prospects? Try making use of the following lead generation content:

  • Free Trials
  • Grated Content such as white paper, checklist, PDFs, EBooks, Instructions, etc.
  • Email Subscription
  • Newsletter Subscription
  • Product Demo
  • Courses
  • Webinars & Events
  • Coupons
  • Referral Marketing
  • Online Assessments

What’s The Difference?

Demand Generation and Lead Generation may seem similar, but they have different goals. Here are some of the differences that you need to know about:

  • Lead generation is about capturing leads and landing customers; demand generation is about attracting customers and building your brand awareness.
  • While lead generation is a straightforward process that lands you a customer, demand generation requires lengthy and comprehensive procedures.
  • Since demand generation is more than a branding technique, there’s more focus on maintaining the customer base and nurturing prospects. There’s a strong level of communication necessary between the sales and marketing teams to make this work.
  • Usually, gated content such as a checklist, white paper, and PDF is used for lead marketing, but demand marketing makes use of videos, articles, and infographics.

Platforms to Use for Demand Marketing & Lead Marketing

You can use your lead generation and demand generation strategies on the following platforms:

  • Your social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
  • Product website
  • Landing page
  • Blogs
  • Ads
  • Email

For an effective marketing technique, we suggest that you incorporate both lead generation and demand generation into your digital strategy. Always remember that demand feeds lead and once you create brand awareness, you are more likely to succeed in the future as your business grows. 

Have any questions for us? Reach to Assessment Generator and we will guide you further.

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