Increasing Revenue with CubeTree Polls

What takes three minutes to create, less than 30 seconds to respond to and enabled one CubeTree customer to increase revenue?

The answer is CubeTree Polls

We've all done it, sent out an email to our colleagues asking for their input on a project we're working on. We've written IMPORTANT and PLEASE RESPOND in the subject line as a plea we hope will be noticed in a sea of inbox emails. In the end we end up with low response rates and incomplete information. Yet collecting input from our teams on issues critical to the business is an important part of virtual collaboration.

The customer I am writing about is a law firm and their business manager needed to know each lawyer's availability in order to increase utilization. The business manager was trying to collect information via a bulk email that would go out once every two weeks to the 250 lawyers in the firm and found it difficult, if not impossible, to get responses and correlate them in a way that would help identify and assign additional work.

Then the business manager saw how quickly and easily people could build and respond to poll questions and knew there was a better way. He started using CubeTree polls. Response rates went up and the administrative time to collate the information went down. The lawyers were able to easily find the poll, respond with three clicks and the business manager increased utilization that drove additional revenue for the firm.

Polls are a great alternative to email for teams to collect information. They improve the ability of a team to collaborate virtually, coordinate data. They can be created by anyone in CubeTree and they allow the group to contribute in real-time without the risk of losing responses in a busy inbox.

If you haven't tried out a poll for yourself yet, I encourage you to do so the next time you're about to send that email out to your team with PLEASE RESPOND in the subject line.

See how to create a Poll in about a minute.

Do you have a great story about using CubeTree to solve a problem and get work done at your company? If you do, I'd love to hear it. I'll give you a CubeTree Snarky-T if you tell me your story and I blog about it. Just drop me a line at patchen at cubetree dot com.