Working with Partners for Research Respondents

A couple of smart questions from a client spurred this video — what do you want to get out of your research? And what will your respondents get out of participating?

 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…

 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…

 Often my clients are worried that a few “rogue actors” who are unhappy with the company’s service or simply racing through the survey to get to the incentive are going to torpedo the reliability of the research results. Can this actually happen? You bet! Can you avoid that happening to your data? You bet!…