Starting Small with Thought Leadership Research
You don’t have to wait until you can pull off a major new research study to start building your thought leadership with research. Even small, simple approaches can be a great start!
Knowing what people do isn’t the same as knowing what they think.
It’s not as easy as just offering everyone a gift card or a chance at an iPad. Incentive strategy can have a big impact on your response rate (and your legal liability)!
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.
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.
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
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.