I am chiming in on this Patrick recommendation. We use Formspring, but 6 of 1, half dozen the etc. Surveys have been extremely useful to us.<p>Particular for businesses that sell products to other businesses, here's what we've found about doing surveys:<p>* It's easy to drive people to surveys using Twitter.<p>* They're a fast way to build an opt-in list of people to contact in the future.<p>* Just asking questions about the problems you address raises awareness and generates leads; for us, more effectively than advertising.<p>* Most of your assumptions are broken.<p>* If you're smart, you can build surveys that will generate newsworthy results; survey stories are layups for trade reporters.<p>We've had a lot of luck incentivizing survey respondants with posters and refrigerator magnets. We're happy to spread those around anyways. Now that we have a solid base of respondants, we're going to look to drive responses with less tangible payoffs. For instance, we'll extrapolate assertions about our industry off survey responses, publish them, embed them in the survey, and wait for nerds like us to come "correct" us.