How to evaluate the interest in your documents using DocSend.com

Employment office worker associated with the documents. Managers create them, the secretary prints, signed by the Director, IT specialists restore from backups. Document Path in the organization of similar molecules in Brownian motion. He is as chaotic. If this offer or any other document for external communication, his fate just unpredictable. As soon as you release a document from the hands - sending e-mail or posted online - you cease to receive feedback. Does it read? Everything Is it clear?

DocSend.com service, developers have tried to solve this problem. Their service allows you to share documents and collect usage statistics.

Adding a document

DocSend is designed to work only with PDF-files. For text files is not a problem, but if you have video or image, then you are clearly wrong service. Add your PDF-Ku can be not only from your computer, but also from the accounts:

• Box;
• Dropbox;
• Google Drive;
• OneDrive.

Create a link to a document

After downloading the document you want to add a link to it. It is necessary to gather statistics on the viewing and downloading of your document. Naturally, they can make a few. This is useful for A / B-testing or tracking traffic to your PDF-File with the offer. In order to make it easier to distinguish between links, each is given a name. But to create a meaningful url No, unfortunately, can not. Therefore, you will have something like docsend.com/view/byhythg.

In your document, you can create the following types of links:

• individual;
• group;
• the collection of information.

For each link, you can set a password, enable / disable the loading of document and specify the term of his placement. At any time, a link, or change its settings can be turned off.

After creating the reference check mode Preview, looks like a document. Your visit will not fall into the statistics.

In order to maintain the relevance necessary from time to time make changes to the current files. For example, to update the price in the price list. In this case, change the reference to the document is not necessary, simply update it.

View the document

When viewing your document to the user will be prompted for the information you have requested. Without it, he can not see the document. This may deter potential readers, so please think twice, so whether you need their data.

If the user wants to download your document, then DocSend sure to ask his email. The service office in Viewed tab will be visible to the files that the user is seeing.

I liked the built-in feedback form. After her fill the reader will come to you not only the question but also document the page number on which it arose.

Statistics

Main feature DocSend - this is statistics. On the Internet, and so lacking services that collect data for the opportunity to download the file. Graphs and detailed look really informative. Naturally, when you have data for their construction. After testing, I have already two visiting mobile and PC. Therefore, the screenshots graphics do not shine.

In addition to summary statistics, you can see data for each viewing. For example, in this picture we see that the file is opened from a computer on Windows. View was quick, on the third page is not scrolled.

conclusions

DocSend service is a great tool for gathering information. However, it should not be used when there is no information of interest to the recipient. Another drawback is the inability to integrate into their system DocSend. It would be great to have the API and modules for popular CMS. Who knows, maybe the developers make such a gift to us soon.

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