Forget the Research Jargon
Research jargon is intimidating and doesn’t help your audience understand.
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.
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.
Even if you’re not very familiar with research, you’ve heard the terms “quantitative” and “qualitative”. What’s the real difference? These terms refer to types of data — not necessarily to research approaches. Quantitative results are those you can count, that you can tabulate. These are either numbers you can work with mathematically or text…
An important aspect of conducting, interpreting and using research is this idea of context. All research projects have a context — when they were conducted, how they were conducted, who conducted them, who was invited to participate in them, how respondents participated, etc. All of these considerations affect how we should look at the…
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.