Don’t Try to Be Pew Research
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
Bots are the worst. And if you don’t know how to keep them out AND root them out, your data isn’t going to be reliable. Check out this week’s video to learn more and see a great little resource for help.
If you’re going to go to the effort of conducting thought leadership research, don’t let it be a one and done content initiative! You can do more with it.
You don’t have to wait until you can pull off a major new research study to start building your thought leadership with research. Even small, simple approaches can be a great start!
Don’t create research to tell you “That”. Create research to tell you “If”.
There are a variety of ways to group your research respondents to better understand them.
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…