Two Nerds Talking Research with Wine #3
How many respondents you really need.
In some situations, balancing your survey data may be appropriate to ensure you’ve got a representative sample.
If you’re going to go to the effort of conducting thought leadership research, don’t let it be a one and done content initiative! You can do more with it.
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…
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…
Don’t create research to tell you “That”. Create research to tell you “If”.
purple flower growing on crack street, soft focus You might think successful agencies have higher revenue and more staff, but our research shows that’s not the case. A successful agency is just as likely to have fewer than 10 employees as it is to have over 100. Three in four respondents have worked in the…