When you finally decide you’re going to offer a prize to your survey respondents, select first the best method you’ll use to reward them, a direct reward or a sweepstakes entry?
By choosing to reward individuals directly you offer a more direct compensation, you give an incentive to every survey participant.
Using a sweepstakes or a contest to award the actual prize to a smaller number of people would be an option when your budget is limited.
The good thing is that in both cases, it'll take no more than 5 minutes to create your campaign with appyReward.

Instantly reward your respondents as a thank you for answering your Survey
Everything is automatic! It's no longer necessary to manually select and insert each gift code into your form or email for each contact. Simply set the odds of winning and give participants the opportunity to get a prize instantly once they have completed their survey.

Next, choose rewards that are most likely to appeal to anybody responding to your survey. And don’t forget to keep your budget in mind, especially if you’re offering everybody a reward.

If you desire to friendly thank your recipients for their collaboration, a 5 bucks Starbuck Coffee gift card would be enough and grandly appreciated. On the other hand, if you need to engage hard-to-reach prospects a $10 Visa gift card would be more efficient. In any case cash and other monetary incentives are more powerful in getting response rates to go up.

The appyReward catalog offers more than 200 e-gift cards from the most popular merchants in US and Europe, that you only pay at their face value.
You can also offer other valuable content you might have (corporate gift cards, coupons, etc.). And here, there is no gift to purchase.

Now that you have launched your campaign, you may need more control over whom to reward and when. With appyReward you know in real-time, directly from your dashboard, the moment your recipients redeem your gifts!

In any case, you’ll ever be able to adjust your offer upon effective returns. Furthermore, gift cards that are not claimed by recipients at the end of the campaign would be reversed into your account to be used on your next campaign.

And finally, don’t forget to brand your reward landing page and email with personalized content. It is the smartest thing to do to help your respondents remember you. Adding a custom URL would not only personalize the final link with recipients but also avoid any email confusion.