Pissing Off Your Prospects and Customers with Research
This week it’s just a rant about irritating your customers and prospects by using research! Listen and learn!
Sarah and I talk about respondent sources and representative samples.
Sharing your research project — during development and after results are in — can reap lots of rewards within your organization. Don’t be stingy!
Partners can be an incredibly smart way to gain respondents — and a win/win for both of you.
Thought leadership is all about getting the right people to tune in to your content. Research can be a very effective tool to do that, if you plan properly.
Guess what? The research isn’t the thought leadership. It’s what you build on top of the research that demonstrates your expertise.
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…