Avoiding Dusty Binder Syndrome
Research shouldn’t sit on a shelf, neglected and unused. There are definitely ways to avoid this common problem!
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.
Response counts depend on a variety of factors. Learn how to plan ahead for healthy response levels.
While demographic research is valuable, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Attitudinal segmentation research, on the other hand, gives us crucial insights into how people think about a topic, which gives us the power to understand what’s going on between peoples’ ears. There’s so much more to an agency owner’s story than their age,…
If you want your research to be statistically reliable — meaning that you can depend on it to accurately represent a particular audience, guide your strategic direction, etc. — you need to have a certain number of respondents. So the simple answer to this question is 400. But of course, that’s not the only…
Every researcher I know has gotten this question or comment at some point: “Steve Jobs said research isn’t helpful because people don’t know what they want.” Actually, what Steve said in an interview in 1998 was: “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want…