Personas vs. Personalization
There’s some confusion. These work together, but aren’t the same thing.
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.
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…
Developing partnerships can bring you far more than just respondents to your survey!
Oh no! Your research showed you something that goes against what you previously thought. You can still make great thought leadership content from those insights.
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.
Many people who do research with their customers or prospects forget this simple and incredibly valuable step!