How Many Questions Can I Put In My Survey?
It’s not really about the number of questions — it’s about your needs (and your audience).
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!…
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.
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.
There are pros and cons for both choices, and you may want to use different approaches for different respondent groups.
If you want your research to be statistically reliable — meaning that you can depend on it to accurately represent a particular audience, guide your strategic direction, etc. — you need to have a certain number of respondents. So the simple answer to this question is 400. But of course, that’s not the only…
This week it’s just a rant about irritating your customers and prospects by using research! Listen and learn!