Research Won’t Make You Do Anything
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.
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.
It’s tempting to want to connect an individual’s responses to their email or other data you have, but there are good reasons not to — and a better way to get their permission to reach out to them.
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.
A couple of smart questions from a client spurred this video — what do you want to get out of your research? And what will your respondents get out of participating?
Research can be a wonderful way to establish your organization as an expert on an audience, a geography or an industry.