Exciting news: Sample Solutions has officially joined the Norstat family! Read the full press release here  🚀

Interviewing the Right B2B Audience During Strategic Turnarounds

In times of change, businesses often face a pivotal question: how do you ensure your strategic decisions are backed by the right insights? For organizations navigating a turnaround, the answer lies in accessing accurate and reliable B2B audience research. Interviewing the right decision-makers and professionals can provide clarity, direction, and validation. At Sample Solutions, we specialize in connecting companies with the exact audience they need, ensuring that every strategic step is informed by data and supported by representative insights.

Why Audience Selection Matters in Turnarounds

Strategic turnarounds demand agility and accuracy. When a business is realigning its operations or repositioning in the market, assumptions are risky. The key to minimizing uncertainty is interviewing the right audience—those who hold influence, purchasing power, or market insight. Without access to these respondents, companies risk basing their decisions on incomplete or skewed data.

Sample Solutions was built on the mission to connect every research question with the right audience. Since 2010, we have grown into a global partner for B2B research, enabling decision-making with scientific sampling supported by technology. This mission is especially critical during turnarounds, where data can mean the difference between revitalization and stagnation.

The Challenge of Reaching B2B Decision-Makers

Reaching B2B audiences is rarely straightforward. Decision-makers are often shielded by gatekeepers, hybrid work schedules, and outdated contact data. Traditional landlines no longer deliver the reach they once did, and many professionals now prefer digital 

With over 250 B2B projects supported annually across 190 countries, we ensure our clients can interview the people who matter most, regardless of geography or niche industry.

Tech Meets Rigor: A Scientific Approach to Sampling

At the core of our approach is the balance between scientific rigor and technology. We believe that representative, accurate sampling is the foundation for confident decision-making. For B2B audience research, this means going beyond standard vendor lists and generic outreach.

Our methodology is rooted in:

Transparent Sampling: every approach is evaluated for representativeness and cost efficiency.

Direct Access to Decision-Makers: bypassing gatekeepers and connecting directly with the professionals who influence outcomes.

This approach empowers businesses in strategic turnarounds to capture the perspectives that matter, whether from niche industries, specific company hierarchies, or global markets.

B2B Direct Mobile and Multi-Channel Outreach

One of the biggest breakthroughs in our B2B sampling is the ability to provide direct mobile contacts. Reaching the right professionals on their preferred devices significantly increases pickup rates and reduces costs for research projects. Instead of relying on outdated company switchboards, our data ensures that call center agents spend less time waiting and more time interviewing.

Our direct mobile data is sourced entirely from B2B environments and complies fully with GDPR requirements. Combined with other outreach options like LinkedIn messaging, direct email, and WhatsApp, this creates a comprehensive multi-channel ecosystem. For companies in turnaround situations, this flexibility means faster access to respondents and more reliable insights at the exact moment they are needed.

B2B Company Data for Strategic Insights

Our B2B company data offers superior coverage compared to generic sources, with quarterly updated profiles and a selection process that goes far beyond basic filters like revenue or employee count. With over 150 million company profiles worldwide, this dataset allows businesses to target respondents based on:

● Company size and industry
● Job title and hierarchy
● Departmental focus, such as marketing, IT, or HR
● Direct contact details, including verified email or LinkedIn profiles

For a company in a turnaround, this precision ensures that research does not just capture any audience, but the right one—those capable of influencing purchasing decisions, shaping market trends, or validating strategic direction.

The Power of the B2B Digital Recruitment Platform

Sample Solutions’ B2B Digital Recruitment Platform is another cornerstone for interviewing the right audience. The platform simplifies the process of identifying, contacting, and interviewing niche B2B respondents by providing:

● Instant feasibility checks across more than 50 data points
● Global audience reach, including hard-to-access professionals
● Comprehensive project management, from quotas to updates
● Detailed insights and progress tracking in real-time

For turnaround strategies, time is often of the essence. The platform allows clients to move quickly from research design to respondent engagement, ensuring that strategic decisions are not delayed by slow recruitment cycles.

Mixed-Mode Approaches for Hard-to-Reach Audiences

In some turnaround cases, the right B2B audience may be spread across industries, geographies, or levels of digital engagement. That is where mixed-mode recruitment becomes essential. By combining online and offline methods—such as CATI (computer-assisted telephone interviewing) with digital outreach—we can reach professionals who might otherwise remain inaccessible.

This approach not only increases incidence rates but also enhances the representativeness of the data. For clients, it means that even in niche or low-incidence projects, reliable insights are within reach.

Data Enrichment for Strategic Depth

Turnarounds are rarely about broad strokes. They require depth, specificity, and actionable detail. Sample Solutions supports this by enriching datasets with additional contact data, company demographics, and decision-maker profiles. This enables clients to build a clearer picture of their B2B landscape, whether analyzing company size, industry segmentation, or identifying influencers within organizations.

Our enrichment services also include geocoding, classification, and ETL operations, ensuring that large datasets are not just collected but transformed into structured, meaningful insights. For businesses in transition, this can uncover opportunities that might otherwise remain hidden.

Compliance and Quality in B2B Research

In high-stakes moments like a strategic turnaround, compliance and data quality cannot be compromised. At Sample Solutions, our operations are guided by global standards including ISO 27001 and ISO 20252, along with full GDPR compliance.

We also hold memberships with AAPOR, WAPOR, and ESOMAR, reflecting our commitment to transparency, probability sampling, and commercial excellence. For clients, this means every insight gathered is backed by quality, rigor, and trust.

Supporting Both Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Turnarounds require both big-picture validation and deep understanding. To support this, we manage recruitment for both qualitative and quantitative B2B projects. Whether it’s conducting large-scale establishment surveys or arranging in-depth video interviews with key decision-makers, our recruitment process is designed to cover every stage.

From pre-screeners to incentive management, calendar booking pages, and multilingual outreach, we handle the complexity of research logistics so our clients can focus on interpreting results.

Global Reach, Local Precision

With projects running in over 130 countries and a database of more than 150 million company profiles, our coverage is global. Yet our approach is always tailored. Whether a client requires national representative surveys, niche industry interviews, or targeted regional insights, we ensure the sample matches the strategic needs of the project.

For turnaround strategies that require alignment across multiple markets, this global reach combined with local precision is invaluable.

Conclusion: Driving Turnarounds with the Right B2B Audience

Strategic turnarounds thrive on clarity, and clarity comes from data collected from the right audience. Interviewing decision-makers, influencers, and professionals who truly reflect the market enables businesses to make confident moves during critical times.

At Sample Solutions, we deliver the tools, technology, and expertise to ensure that no turnaround decision is made in the dark. From direct mobile outreach to advanced enrichment services and global B2B recruitment platforms, we help our clients connect with the audiences that matter most.

For organizations navigating a strategic shift, the path forward begins with the right voices. With our scientific and reliable B2B audience research, those voices are always within reach.

  • Home
  • Solutions
  • Who We Are
  • Contact