Working with Partners for Research Respondents
Partners can be an incredibly smart way to gain respondents — and a win/win for both of you.
This is the introductory episode to Fun with Research! In it, I talk about the purpose of our show. In my work doing research for agencies and their clients, I’ve noticed two common issues with agency folks in regards to incorporating research into their work: A problem of CONFIDENCE While many agency marketers have some…
Many marketers don’t really think about the difference between data, insight and HELPFUL insight when strategizing research work. And it’s absolutely CRUCIAL when it comes to getting the ROI out of market research. Data are just numbers or text. How many clicks? How many views? What’s an individual’s gender or age? What’s an organization’s revenue…
Every researcher I know has gotten this question or comment at some point: “Steve Jobs said research isn’t helpful because people don’t know what they want.” Actually, what Steve said in an interview in 1998 was: “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want…
Net Promoter Score is a very common metric, but do you know how it’s calculated and what it tells you? Learn more in this video!
Even if you’re not very familiar with research, you’ve heard the terms “quantitative” and “qualitative”. What’s the real difference? These terms refer to types of data — not necessarily to research approaches. Quantitative results are those you can count, that you can tabulate. These are either numbers you can work with mathematically or text…
Research can be a wonderful way to establish your organization as an expert on an audience, a geography or an industry.