Working with Partners for Research Respondents
Partners can be an incredibly smart way to gain respondents — and a win/win for both of you.
Buying publicly available research reports can seem like an expedient way to get the information you’re looking for. But there are some things to be aware of.
How to settle on a topic that will give your thought leadership efforts the most bang for your buck.
An important aspect of conducting, interpreting and using research is this idea of context. All research projects have a context — when they were conducted, how they were conducted, who conducted them, who was invited to participate in them, how respondents participated, etc. All of these considerations affect how we should look at the…
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…
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.
Many clients wonder how long it will take to get quality custom research done. It depends on a variety of things, but here’s my take.