Working with Partners for Research Respondents
Partners can be an incredibly smart way to gain respondents — and a win/win for both of you.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Thought leadership research serves you and your audience. It doesn’t need to serve everyone.