No, You Shouldn’t Run Your Own Focus Groups
It’s not as easy as it looks, and running your own groups can affect the results.
Your goal with research shouldn’t be to confirm you’re right — it should be to prove yourself wrong. Thanks to Edison Research VP Tom Webster for inspiring this one.
Many of our agency clients working on thought leadership research worry that they don’t have a strong niche. Many do — they’re just not thinking about niche the way I think they should.
Good research can not only build your thought leadership through the insights it reveals — simply doing it in the first place helps you build your authority with your thought leadership followers.
Using research to track how things may be changing with your audience over time can be very valuable, but there are some things you should watch for to make sure your data is representative and helpful.
Oh no! Your research showed you something that goes against what you previously thought. You can still make great thought leadership content from those insights.
There are a lot of things you can do to make sure that your research respondents have a great experience and you’re not throwing roadblocks in their way.