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by nothingsTrivial 5809 days ago
As dctoedt mentioned, creating an ICE entry is a great first step. But it is unfortunate how few people actually take the time, and it's not a complete solution.

If anyone is willing, I would love to get even more survey results regarding my soon-to-launch emergency contact service (Still working on the UI/UX and very close to the MVP). Wrt creating an ICE entry, I'm seeing less than 30% in the survey have done so.

The survey link is http://bit.ly/MyECInfoSurvey

Please feel free to pass the link along to friends and family.

Cheers, Shawn

Ps, since this is HN after all, MyEC Info is a bootstrapped, single-founder startup. If this is a topic you are passionate about please feel free to contact me.
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qeorge 5809 days ago
Small point: I stopped taking the survey after a couple of questions, because I'm not in your demographic. Most of the questions involved my child/partner's emergency info, and I'm single and childless, so I ended up with No on most questions.

Perhaps you know this and are factoring it in, but at any rate, that's why I didn't finish the survey. It might be good to have some qualifying questions at the top, or even a note about the demographic you'd like to respond.

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nothingsTrivial 5809 days ago
Hey George, Thanks for comment and for taking the time. This issue with the structure of the questions has come up and I've been working on a new survey with some qualifiers up front to direct the flow. Simply wasn't ready when the original topic was posted and I decided to be a little opportunistic.

Although those with children are my target demographic, issues of emergency preparedness affect everyone. Hopefully I'll be able to solve some of those issues across all demographics.

That said, please finish the survey if you have the time. There is a question at the end about number of children that does allow me to factor things in a bit.

Thanks again, Shawn

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c1sc0 5809 days ago
What's the response rate on that survey? How do you send traffic to it?
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nothingsTrivial 5808 days ago
Since the post yesterday, 24 clicks through to the survey and 4 submissions.

Thus far the bulk has been seeded through my own contact lists. I did try to drive some traffic via AdWords but I didn't see great results (it's my first time using AdWords, so I'm still in the learning phase.)

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