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!
One of the most productive things you can do for your organization is to develop your own, opted-in group of volunteers to participate in ongoing research and discussions. Your proprietary research panel (or “Insiders” or “Advisory Panel” or whatever you want to call it) can serve a variety of valuable roles: They can reduce…
Clients sometimes avoid market research because they’re afraid it will “box them in” when it comes to decision-making. Nope. Research is a flare, not a cage.
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.
It’s not as easy as just offering everyone a gift card or a chance at an iPad. Incentive strategy can have a big impact on your response rate (and your legal liability)!
Your research can be a powerful force for your organization, if you can just do three things with it.