Constant Contact Adds Online Polls to ListenUp! Survey.Polling Feature Gives Small Businesses Instant Insight from Online Visitors and Customers Constant Contact's First Online Poll Reveals Majority of U.S. Small Businesses Plan to Maintain or Increase Marketing Spend in 2008 WALTHAM Waltham (wôl`thăm, –thəm), city (1990 pop. 57,878), Middlesex co., E Mass., a suburb of Boston, on the Charles River; settled c.1634, set off from Watertown 1738, inc. as a city 1884. , Mass. -- Constant Contact([R]), Inc. (NasdaqGM: CTCT CTCT Contact CTCT Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC (joint venture) ), a leading provider of email marketing and online surveys for small organizations, today announced the availability of a new online polling feature for its ListenUp!(SM) Survey tool. This new feature enables small businesses and organizations to quickly create engaging online polls for their websites or blogs. The responses generated from polls can provide small organizations with valuable feedback that can be put to use immediately. "Online polling is a fast, easy, and fun way for businesses and organizations to gauge gauge In manufacturing and engineering, a device used to determine whether a dimension is larger or smaller than a reference standard. A snap gauge, for example, is formed like the letter C, with outer “go” and inner “not go” jaws, and is used to the thoughts, needs, and preferences of their audiences," said Ellen El·len , Mount A peak, 3,514.2 m (11,522 ft) high, of southern Utah. Brezniak, vice president of product strategy, Constant Contact. "Polls are a great first step to help small businesses better understand and strengthen relationships with their customers. An online poll can also help make small businesses' websites more interactive and engaging." Offered as an added feature to customers of ListenUp! Survey, online polls enable small businesses and organizations to gain immediate insight about a specific topic from their customers, clients, members, or online visitors. With this new feature, ListenUp! Survey now provides small organizations a variety of feedback mechanisms -- an online survey, which typically has multiple questions, or a quick one-question online poll. Users of Constant Contact's online polling feature can: * Place a new poll on their website daily, weekly, or monthly to make sites more interactive; * Display poll results immediately after website visitors vote to increase engagement; * Create up to 10 live polls at one time to gain greater insight into the opinions of their online audience; * Store poll results in their Constant Contact account and access them anytime Results from Constant Contact's First Online Poll Constant Contact put its new online polling feature to the test by releasing its first poll, which showed that 66 percent of U.S. small businesses and organizations plan to maintain or increase their marketing spend in 2008. Despite the current economic forecasts, only 12 percent have already made cuts while 22 percent plan to decrease their marketing spend. The full results are below: "Has the latest economic forecast affected your 2008 marketing spend?" Yes, plan to increase it 21% Yes, plan to decrease it 22% No, no change 45% Already made cuts 12% "We regularly survey U.S. small businesses about their marketing plans, but recognize that there are occasions when a lengthy survey is not needed to gain useful thoughts and feedback," said Nancie Freitas Freitas is a village in Northern Portugal. It is the seat of an eponymous "freguesia" (Portuguese for civil parish), which in turn is part of the "concelho" (municipality) of Fafe. , chief marketing officer, Constant Contact. "Our first poll showed encouraging results about the current confidence of U.S. small businesses, which we were able to learn within hours. We are excited to offer this great tool to our customers." Availability The online polling feature is available, at no additional charge, to customers of Constant Contact's ListenUp! Survey. For more information, please visit: http://www.constantcontact.com/survey/index.jsp *The Constant Contact online poll was conducted through targeted email distribution to U.S. small businesses and organizations, who are current customers of Constant Contact, recording results from more than 400 respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. . The poll was conducted on February February: see month. 26-27, 2008. About Constant Contact, Inc. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact, Inc. is a leading provider of email marketing and online survey tools for small organizations, including small businesses, associations, and nonprofits. To learn more, please visit www.constantcontact.com or call (781) 472-8100. 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