Demonstrate Your Authority with Research
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.
One of the most productive things you can do for your organization is to develop your own, opted-in group of volunteers to participate in ongoing research and discussions. Your proprietary research panel (or “Insiders” or “Advisory Panel” or whatever you want to call it) can serve a variety of valuable roles: They can reduce…
Pricing research isn’t easy. Learn a little about how to discuss it with clients you just want you to throw a pricing question or two in your survey.
Research can be a wonderful way to establish your organization as an expert on an audience, a geography or an industry.
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.
Often my clients are worried that a few “rogue actors” who are unhappy with the company’s service or simply racing through the survey to get to the incentive are going to torpedo the reliability of the research results. Can this actually happen? You bet! Can you avoid that happening to your data? You bet!…