Friday, September 11, 2009

Intrade Confidential Survey Results - Now Public

Intrade is currently running a survey from its homepage.

The survey may be accessed here (Please take the survey if you haven’t already).

We are making the results* of our survey transparent and public. We are doing this as we believe providing open access to this information is in the best interests of our members, our business, the industry, our competitors, supporters and even our rare ;-) symbiotic detractors.

Should you like to discuss or collaborate on this or related surveys please contact me directly at john.delaney@intrade.com.

Regards,

John Delaney

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%

* From approx 100 initial respondents.

1 comment:

Intrade said...

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