I Bet You Have A Niche
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.
If you collect information from your customers, you can probably build thought leadership content from data you already have!
Thought leadership research is the diving board. YOU are the diver.
This week it’s just a rant about irritating your customers and prospects by using research! Listen and learn!
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…
Little mistakes can have a big impact. Make sure you’re properly testing your surveys before fielding them. I have some suggestions about things to check you might not be considering.