Audiences can vote with their watch!
Posted by polltogo | July 9, 2015
In what is a world first, we recorded the first-ever response to any poll using a watch. A poll in french, no less! (It’s normal, the team is in Paris at the moment and the app finds polls geolocalized nearby.) All polls created using the polltogo platform are accessible by anyone using any type of mobile device — now it’s possible on a smartwatch too.
In this little demo, we show the use of the polltogo voter app that we just released for the Pebble watch platform. Unlike with other web-connected devices, feature phones and smartphones, where no app is required to respond, a potential participant requires an app to vote using their smartwatch. If you have a Pebble watch, get the app here.
Note: The video shows a poll that was set by its creator to be “findable” via geolocation, thus making it open to the public in a geographic region. Polls created with polltogo can also be kept private, so that they can be given to specific groups of people.
Polling the public using a T-shirt
Posted by polltogo | November 16, 2014
After spending some time improving the way we interface with Zazzle to allow our users to automatically generate shirts with their poll’s details, it dawned on us that this was an aspect of polltogo that we hadn’t well publicized. It’s certainly worth talking about!
You may think that creating a T-shirt with a polltogo poll sounds like a bit of gimmicky fun, but it has some potentially interesting “pro” uses. When you have a limited marketing budget (e.g., for flyers/signs) and your target audience is around you on the street (or at an event/conference), wearing your poll is a creative hack to incite more participation in your poll. And of course, because you smartly created the poll with polltogo, voting will be friction-free for your potential participants since the poll is accessible using any mobile device, with no special app required.
Tip: Provide open WiFi at your business site for your customers
Posted by polltogo | May 21, 2014
If you manage a store or restaurant, make sure that your customers can access the information they need, but also provide you with some data as well.
We don’t need to tell you that the use of smartphones by consumers on-the-go is growing, but have you actually tried accessing the mobile internet from your retail location? If your business site is in a mall, or underground, there’s a very good chance that your customers will be frustrated every time they open their smartphone to do anything but a simple telephone call.
If you plan on using polltogo to collect feedback from walk-in traffic, you need to facilitate the mobile experience as much as possible. Instead of relying on variable 3G/4G cellular data connections, providing open WiFi internet access as an added alternative will ensure that customers can post to their social media accounts (hopefully about your products & services!) and scan QR codes, such as those of your polltogo poll, to their heart’s content.
Our new iPhone app
Posted by polltogo | January 22, 2014
This comes as no surprise to our existing users, nor those of you who have been following our startup, but we released a new polltogo iPhone app! It was actually first released quietly a few months ago, letting the polltogo user community help us iron out the kinks (you guys are great!) — but now we’re ready to tell the world. Go forth and download away! (It works great on iPads too.)
We created the polltogo iPhone app to help you better manage and monitor your polls on the go. Though it is by no means necessary to be able to participate, you could suggest it to your target audience as well (better if done in advance, so that people can download the app ahead of time using WiFi) so that they can use the “Participate” interface to more easily type in poll codes (just the ending part of a poll link, not the full URL), use the built-in QR code scanner, or find open “findable” polls on a map.