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Insights: Use Trivia or Surveys During Your Livestream to Engage Donors

Updated over a week ago

Learn the differences between trivia and surveys and how to use them during your Livestream.

Using trivia and survey questions during your Livestream is a fun, easy way to engage your donors.

Trivia vs. Surveys

While both trivia and surveys ask donors to answer questions, trivia questions have a correct answer (or answers):

Trivia: How many plants are currently recognized by NASA as being a part of our solar system?

  1. 7

  2. 8

  3. 9

  4. 11

On the other hand, survey questions allow you to collect donor opinions and don't have a right or wrong answer:

Survey: When NASA downgraded Pluto to “dwarf planet” status, how did you feel?

  1. Devastated, don’t downgrade Pluto!

  2. Elated, Pluto was masquerading as a planet for far too long!

  3. Indifferent, planets aren’t really my thing

  4. Nervous. What could get downgraded next!

How to use Trivia and Surveys

At in-person events, donors often spend time connecting, laughing, and getting to know one another. During virtual or hybrid events, trivia and survey questions provide a way for virtual donors to interact and be a part of something bigger than themselves. Having fun helps donors feel connected to the event, and connected donors tend to give more!

Use trivia to:

  • Inform the audience about your cause

  • Provide fun entertainment

  • Run a contest with prizes

Use surveys to:

  • Let audience members tell you what to do next during an event

  • Determine which projects to fund first with the money raised

  • Help donors get to know each other and build camaraderie as a group

Require a donation or email address to answer questions

You can use trivia and surveys to collect donor information or boost the amount you raise by asking donors to give a donation or their email address before they can answer a question:

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