Your content needs to do a lot these days. From cementing brand authority and customer engagement to SEO and marketing automation (never mind impressing your higher-ups), it seems the content beast always needs feeding.

But with all these content pots cooking, it can be hard to come up with new ideas that help you stand out. You need more than just a hodgepodge of tiny wins—you need a unique concept that only you can deliver (and can make a big impact on your customers and industry alike).

Enter survey-based research. It's your ticket to truly valuable content your audience will crave—the cornerstone content you need to create cohesive, long-term campaigns that build brand authority and serve up awesome assets throughout the buying process.

Join MarketingProfs for Using Research for Content and Thought Leadership, a Master Class of 15 bite-sized lessons, as instructor Michele Linn walks you through her four-step process for conducting and publishing survey-based research for content marketing and thought leadership. It's a proven process perfected during her years leading research projects at Mantis Research and Content Marketing Institute. You'll walk away knowing not just the why, but the how—and what to do next.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Michele Linn is the founder of Mantis Research, where she helps content and community managers conduct surveys to learn about their audience and publish compelling, original research findings. Before Mantis, Michele was head of editorial at Content Marketing Institute, where she led the company's editorial strategy, helped build the 200,000+ audience, and published hundreds of articles. She has been cited as a content marketing influencer and was named one of Folio's Top Women in Media (Corporate Visionary).