Prove Yourself Wrong
Your goal with research shouldn’t be to confirm you’re right — it should be to prove yourself wrong. Thanks to Edison Research VP Tom Webster for inspiring this one.
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
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.
Your research can be a powerful force for your organization, if you can just do three things with it.
Guess what? The research isn’t the thought leadership. It’s what you build on top of the research that demonstrates your expertise.
There are a lot of things you can do to make sure that your research respondents have a great experience and you’re not throwing roadblocks in their way.
How to settle on a topic that will give your thought leadership efforts the most bang for your buck.