What If Your Research Doesn’t Prove You Right?
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.
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.
I bet you can identify 12 topics for thought leadership content from research you’ve done. If you can’t, plan better in your next research project.
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…
In this video I share one of my favorite resources for people who are building, reviewing or interpreting survey research – a little book by Amy Pettit called “People Aren’t Robots”.
There are a variety of ways to group your research respondents to better understand them.