Intrade is currently running a survey from its homepage.
The survey may be accessed here (Please take the survey if you haven’t already).
Should you like to discuss or collaborate on this or related surveys please contact me directly at john.delaney@intrade.com.
CEO
Intrade
1. How did you discover Intrade.com? | |
Blog | 12% |
Friend or colleague | 17% |
Search engine (e.g. Google, Yahoo!) | 23% |
Facebook | 0% |
Twitter | 0% |
Other (please specify) | 48% (Top thematic answers: College Professor, CNN, CNBC, HardBall with Chris Matthews, Larry Kudlow, Glen Beck, ABC 20/20, Politickr) |
2. How would you feel if you could no longer use Intrade.com? | |
Very disappointed | 67% |
Somewhat disappointed | 27% |
Not disappointed | 6% |
N/A - I no longer use Intrade.com | 0% |
3. What would you likely use as an alternative if Intrade.com were no longer available? | |
I probably wouldn’t use an alternative | 65% |
I would use an alternative | 35% (Top thematic answers: Drudge Report, Iowa Electronic Markets, survey/public opinion poll data, more time on virtual currency markets, any other real money prediction market) |
4. What is the primary benefit that you have received from Intrade.com? | |
Various responses from respondents | 85% (Top thematic answers: Profit, insight, excitement, hedge, training, education for finance, “seeing the curve before it curves”) |
No responses from respondents | 15% |
5. Have you recommended Intrade.com to others? If Yes, why? | |
No | 26% |
Yes | 74% (Top thematic answers: A futures market on events rather than commodities, , risk managed way to trade futures, a great place to use your knowledge to make money, the best predictions market with a good history, as an opportunity to profit from your good judgment, futures trading on current events.) |
6. What type of person do you think would benefit most from Intrade.com? | |
Various responses from respondents | 79% (Top thematic answers: finance, trader, investor, speculators, politicians, media people, people with expert information, Corp. CEO's, managers, 'Joe 6 pack') |
No responses from respondents | 21% |
7. How can we improve Intrade.com to better meet your needs? | |
Various responses from respondents | 83% (Top thematic answers: Improve liquidity somehow, Make depositing easier, a better user interface/upgrade your website, a central clearing counterparty, add sport markets, more local markets, make it easier to spread the Intrade word) |
No responses from respondents | 17% |
8. Would it be okay if we followed up by email to request a clarification to one or more of your responses? | |
No | 39% |
Yes | 61% |
1 comment:
Lurking but learning said :
V interesting reading and spunky of Intrade to publish it.
I bet you guys detest nanny states as much as most of us/US do LOL
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