Demonstrate Your Authority with Research
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.
One of the most productive things you can do for your organization is to develop your own, opted-in group of volunteers to participate in ongoing research and discussions. Your proprietary research panel (or “Insiders” or “Advisory Panel” or whatever you want to call it) can serve a variety of valuable roles: They can reduce…
Clients sometimes avoid market research because they’re afraid it will “box them in” when it comes to decision-making. Nope. Research is a flare, not a cage.
There are pros and cons for both choices, and you may want to use different approaches for different respondent groups.
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.
Bots are the worst. And if you don’t know how to keep them out AND root them out, your data isn’t going to be reliable. Check out this week’s video to learn more and see a great little resource for help.
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.