Studying an Audience Over Time
Using research to track how things may be changing with your audience over time can be very valuable, but there are some things you should watch for to make sure your data is representative and helpful.
Five Gerbera flowers in a crystal flower pot in row isolated While demographic research is valuable, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Attitudinal segmentation research, on the other hand, gives us crucial insights into how people think about a topic, which gives us the power to understand what’s going on between peoples’ ears. There’s…
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?
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.
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…
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.
How many respondents you really need.