You are the Diver
Thought leadership research is the diving board. YOU are the diver.
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.
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…
In some situations, balancing your survey data may be appropriate to ensure you’ve got a representative sample.
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…
Research can be a wonderful way to establish your organization as an expert on an audience, a geography or an industry.
This episode is the first in a series with my special guest Dr. Sarah McKenzie. Today we’re discussing how to talk about research with people who don’t really understand research.