Forget the Research Jargon
Research jargon is intimidating and doesn’t help your audience understand.
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.
In some situations, balancing your survey data may be appropriate to ensure you’ve got a representative sample.
I bet you can identify 12 topics for thought leadership content from research you’ve done. If you can’t, plan better in your next research project.
It’s not as easy as it looks, and running your own groups can affect the results.
Your goal with research shouldn’t be to confirm you’re right — it should be to prove yourself wrong. Thanks to Edison Research VP Tom Webster for inspiring this one.
Research can be a wonderful way to establish your organization as an expert on an audience, a geography or an industry.