Building Thought Leadership with Existing Data
If you collect information from your customers, you can probably build thought leadership content from data you already have!
Many people who do research with their customers or prospects forget this simple and incredibly valuable step!
Thought leadership is all about getting the right people to tune in to your content. Research can be a very effective tool to do that, if you plan properly.
Many of our agency clients working on thought leadership research worry that they don’t have a strong niche. Many do — they’re just not thinking about niche the way I think they should.
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…
There are four things I’d like you to think about when you’re organizing your questions for a survey.