We’re getting ready to do a video on blog surveys and we want to make sure we’re giving you all the information you need.

So let’s hear it:  What are your questions about doing blog surveys?  Anything, from what software to use to what to ask to how to interpret blog surveys is fair game.

Post your questions here and I promise to answer them.  And, if you want to tell us about experiences you’ve had using blog surveys–successes, problems, funny stories, whatever–we’d love to hear them.

The video will be up on the blog soon, so stay tuned!

The new Kauffman Entrepreneurship Survey results show just how strongly Americans support entrepreneurship and view it as the backbone of our economy.

And a blog survey on the same topic is a great way to “piggyback” the popularity of those data.

Not only will your blog survey get people coming to your blog to take it, the blog survey results will give you something to use to generate buzz about your blog.

Anytime you can link survey results like these to original data you collect from YOUR peeps–like what you get from a blog survey–that’s great fodder for social media and even the press.  It can REALLY help you generate traffic.

You can do this 2 ways.

Here’s an example of the first way:  One of my clients just finished a survey of her list that included some questions on attitudes about the economy.  Lucky for her:  She can take these Kauffman results, link them to her results, and she’s got a gold mine.

By showing how the national data connect with what HER list members think,

• She’s got something awesome to talk about in her blog and newsletter, something that will interest people and generate comments;
• She’s got something to talk about in Twitter, on Facebook, and in other social networking sites;
• She can write lenses for Squidoo and articles for HubPages and Ezine Articles;
• She can bookmark all that in social bookmarking sites;
• Because her survey was sound and done scientifically, she can even write a press release describing how her results relate to the findings from a national survey.

That’s a LOT of return from 1 little block of questions in a survey.

But you can profit from this too, right now, by using the second way of connecting with national survey data:

Do a blog survey, asking what YOUR peeps think about entrepreneurship and the economy.  Here are some examples of questions you can use for your blog survey, taken right from the Kauffman survey:

Even though Wall Street has collapsed, I still believe in capitalism centered around entrepreneurs.  Response options:  Strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree.

How important are entrepreneurs for the health of the US economy?  Response options:  Very important, somewhat important, not very important.

How important are entrepreneurs for creating jobs in the United States?  Response options: Very important, somewhat important, not very important.

And you can do this easily.  Although I don’t like Poll Daddy for doing big surveys (because last time I checked, they weren’t encrypting their data), you can get a free account at Poll Daddy to put a blog survey on your website.

A blog survey like this is a great way to get the conversation going and generate comments.

You can also do a quick poll at LinkedIn or Facebook.

So do a blog survey today–start asking your peeps what they think and reporting the results!

New survey results from the Kaufman Foundation show that Americans see entrepreneurship as the best route out of the economic downturn.

Just how strongly do they believe in the power of entrepreneurs? The survey results show that 79%–more than 3 in 4 Americans polled—see entrepreneurs as critically important to job creation. Survey respondents rank entrepreneurs more highly than they do big business, scientists, or the government.

Kaufman’s survey, “Entrepreneurship and Economic Recovery,” was based on a random sample of 2,000 Americans; 300 of those interviewed (15%) are entrepreneurs and 300 want to be entrepreneurs.

The entrepreneurship survey shows that 63% of Americans would like to see the government provide incentives to individuals to start their own businesses, as opposed to creating jobs directly or through big business.

According to the Kauffman Foundation CEO, Carl Schramm, the survey results “underscore the public’s deep and abiding belief that the government should facilitate entrepreneurial activity by creating the conditions and policies that make it easier for individuals to take a risk, as opposed to the government itself creating jobs. Monday’s announcement to free up more loans for entrepreneurs and small business owners is a step in the right direction, but more can be done to encourage current and future job-creators.”