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To take the other side...there is currently a beautiful simplicity about this idea and execution. I pretty much just fall asleep when I start trying to deal with A/B testing, market research, ad effectiveness, etc. This is so simple that all I have to ask myself is, "Do I have a question I'd like to ask a bunch of people?" and "Do I have five dollars?" That's a really good place to be, because everybody in business h…
Fair enough... but if this is just a completely random, not-even-remotely-scientific man on the street approach, then what problem does this solve that a poll i can add to my website/blog/favorite forum via Fantastico in 180 seconds doesn't?
Examples 2-100: A poll on my site or blog would work fine but... I don't want people on my site to know what I'm polling. I don't have a site. I don't know how to do polls on my site. My IT department says it will take 8 weeks. My web design guys say they don't have the module for this particular CMS - they can build one from scratch for $2k. I told the web design guys to go to hell & found an embeddable polling service, it'll take 4 weeks & they won't be responsible if it doesn't work. I worked it out with the web design guys but my boss says we need to use the companies standard colour scheme - the widget won't change its colour.