Breaking Down Silos with Research
You may not be considering how your research initiative can bring your whole organization together — but you should!
This week it’s just a rant about irritating your customers and prospects by using research! Listen and learn!
Buying publicly available research reports can seem like an expedient way to get the information you’re looking for. But there are some things to be aware of.
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…
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.
Whether you’re dealing with a decision-maker in your organization or with a client, you’ll likely come across this question. Those who have been working in organizations for some time often have assumptions about their customers and prospects that are firmly entrenched. The “Why bother?” question is one you’ll need to be prepared to answer….
Thought leadership research is the diving board. YOU are the diver.