An Amazing Resource
In this video I share one of my favorite resources for people who are building, reviewing or interpreting survey research – a little book by Amy Pettit called “People Aren’t Robots”.
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?
Don’t create research to tell you “That”. Create research to tell you “If”.
Many marketers don’t really think about the difference between data, insight and HELPFUL insight when strategizing research work. And it’s absolutely CRUCIAL when it comes to getting the ROI out of market research. Data are just numbers or text. How many clicks? How many views? What’s an individual’s gender or age? What’s an organization’s revenue…
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.
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.
Little mistakes can have a big impact. Make sure you’re properly testing your surveys before fielding them. I have some suggestions about things to check you might not be considering.