How to Find Participants for Your Online Survey

Finding enough participants for your own online survey is often a major challenge in practice. Here we want to show you simple tips on how to easily, quickly and uncomplicated find participants.

1. Send your survey to friends, colleagues and relatives

Online surveys always have their own link that can be shared via email or WhatsApp. Use this feature to provide the survey to your contacts. You will usually receive the fastest responses from them.

2. Social networks

You can also use the survey link to call for participation in your survey on social networks such as Facebook or Instagram. The advantage here: You often get great reach and thus many participants.

Tip: Especially Facebook groups that specialize in the topic (e.g. Looking for survey participants and Find study participants) or university groups (e.g. Students from Hannover) are very useful here. In return, you help other students who are also looking for participants.

3. Survey communities

There are also various communities that specialize in this. Here there are free portals and large market research platforms, which are however paid.

4. Create a survey with empirio and find participants

If you are still at the beginning of your work and have not yet created a survey, you can also create your own survey here at empirio and then find suitable participants in the community. In our opinion of course the easiest way. We offer this service 100% free of charge. Take a look at our Features and be convinced or start directly with your own survey.