How can I do market research online?

Question

How can I do market research by myself, or/and get free market research by a Secondary Research, on the internet.

Thanks

Answer 1

What kind of "market research" are you wanting to do?

If you want to study customer trends, chat rooms, user groups (like those on Yahoo and even the Yahoo answers section for your field) and message boards can be helpful to see the problems and questions that your target market has.

If you have an existing client base and want to drive them to the web to fill out surveys, you can do a search on "free online survey program" and you will get plenty of sites that will allow you to create and post a survey for your website or that you can email a link to your clients that will bring them to a site to fill out the form. You'll probably need to offer them some kind of incentive to get a stronger response.

If you just want to research the competition, then you can use the advanced searches to see sites similar to and link to your competitor's site, or run a search on their domain name and/or phone number to see where they are on the web. The other trick to doing market research online is to have good search strings that will help you pull up the data you need and not the data you don't need. Don't be afraid to use very long word strings in search boxes, as that will reduce the number of results you get. You might consider using terms like "market research paper" as an exact string.

If you have more questions, you can contact me directly. Good luck.

Answer 2

Yes - there are already done researches + the best I feel is on chat sites, Blog forums and other forums. What is important is for you to find the correct market segment that you need to reach - When you pop the question, you should ensure that it is in the right chat room and right audience.

Answer 3

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