Don’t Try to Be Pew Research
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
You may not be considering how your research initiative can bring your whole organization together — but you should!
Sharing your research project — during development and after results are in — can reap lots of rewards within your organization. Don’t be stingy!
As exciting as it may be, you shouldn’t just dive right into analyzing your survey responses without doing some data cleaning first. The most common cleaning functions are available within many online survey platforms, and can keep you from including poor quality responses in your analysis.
An important aspect of conducting, interpreting and using research is this idea of context. All research projects have a context — when they were conducted, how they were conducted, who conducted them, who was invited to participate in them, how respondents participated, etc. All of these considerations affect how we should look at the…
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.
Many clients wonder how long it will take to get quality custom research done. It depends on a variety of things, but here’s my take.