Market Research Articles

Marketing » Market Research | By Jinger Jarrett @ Friday, 8th December 2006 @ 1:10 PM

When Dan Brown published his book, "The Davinci Code", Christians were up in arms. After all, Brown had effectively rewritten two thousand years of Christian history with the claim that Jesus Christ had been married. Whether you choose to believe this or not is really immaterial to this article. Personally, as a Christian, I saw nothing to get all up in arms about. In fact, Brown's strategy was brilliant. Who knows if he really believes what he said? The bottom line is... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Rose Mary @ Wednesday, 15th November 2006 @ 8:56 PM

EBay is a big market where you are able to sell almost all kinds of merchandises. You can go to eBay and browse through all the product categories to have an idea what are the products on sales. However, to sell merchandise on eBay, you will need to know about the characteristic of the product you intent to sell, in particular the product life cycle. If you intent to sell a fast moving consumer product such as digital camera, PC, handphones, etc, you will need to know about the product ... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Rena Klingenberg @ Wednesday, 18th October 2006 @ 3:18 PM

There are literally thousands of niches in the jewelry marketplace that can provide a comfortable source of income if you choose to specialize in serving a particular need. You will have a lot more business if you become known as the jeweler who specializes in a particular type of jewelry (for example, plus-size jewelry, men's jewelry, Victorian styles, wedding jewelry, etc.) than if you try to make all jewelry for all people. By creating jewelry for a specific market, you can... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Terence Young @ Wednesday, 12th July 2006 @ 3:59 PM

Everything that has something to do with online is getting attention nowadays. There is also no exception for online surveys. Similar to the traditional form-filling surveys, you do the same here with a few added advantages. First, you do not need to leave your house to fill up a survey form but instead you can do it online. Second, you are paid to voice out your opinions. Before a product enters the market, companies spend years on research and development. After that, years are again sp... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Jinger Jarrett @ Thursday, 29th June 2006 @ 7:40 AM

Search engines don't buy products and services. People do. To sell your products and services online, you need targeted traffic. Search engines will send you targeted traffic, and a lot of it, if you take certain steps. The first step in your search engine marketing campaign isn't search engine optimization. Your first step is to understand the internet and how to effectively use it to promote your products and services. The internet is a content driven medium. Sea... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Obinna Heche @ Saturday, 10th June 2006 @ 8:33 AM

If you are a typist with time on your hands and if you are eager to bring yourself some added cash, then you might want to find internet typing jobs. What are internet typing jobs? These are typing jobs that are posted on the internet. One way to find a list of the websites that carry such jobs is to go to ask.com. If you do that, then you might soon find yourself visiting the website freewebs.com. That particular website indicates that there is a real demand for typists who will take on the... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By deeb basheer @ Tuesday, 23rd May 2006 @ 2:26 PM

The internet is becoming really huge and markets are being filled with sellers and you will never be able to dominate these markets. So, you have to find a niche market, you might be wondering what a niche is? A niche is a topic that has demand and doesn’t have much competition so you can conquer this niche easily and make the most money out of it. There are some great low-cost methods for finding out what's selling well.: 1. The Overture Tool is a great place to start... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Chris Crompton @ Friday, 28th April 2006 @ 7:05 PM

A new ad and website conversion testing method is available which will revolutionize your online marketing success rate. Before now, the best marketers have used split testing religiously. That preference is changing as you read this. In case you are not aware, split testing is what allows Google AdWords masters to lower their bid price by constantly improving the click through rate of their ads. You start with 2 competing ads. Once you have a statistically relevant sample size (after... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Edward Rizzo @ Tuesday, 4th April 2006 @ 5:03 AM

The more you understand about any subject, the more interesting it becomes. Running your own home based internet business is a piece of cake. Right? You've probably heard how easy it is to rake in tens of thousands of dollars practically over night, and how you can have all kinds of "free time" and extra cash for traveling and shopping at your favorite store... Just throw up a web site, add a few affiliate links, post to some forums and presto - you're in the money! more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Marc Lindsay @ Wednesday, 22nd February 2006 @ 10:09 AM

Did you know that every year companies world wide spend an excessive amount of $250 billion dollars trying to sell their products and services. Almost a billion of this money spent goes straight into market research. And this is why online paid surveys pay so much. If you spent a couple of million dollars developing a new product you’d want to make sure people like it and you’d also want to know all things that people don’t like about it. Paid surveys are a perfect place to test new produ... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Marc Lindsay @ Tuesday, 21st February 2006 @ 9:40 AM

If you’ve ever been to a website with a pop up banner telling you that you can earn money taking surveys, there’s a chance that its not a legitimate paid survey company making this offer. Many market research companies mislead consumers into giving them their details and then selling them to telemarketing companies. Soon enough you’ll be receiving personal calls and spam emails. This is one of the main problems individual faces when trying to find a good paid survey websites that legal. I... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Marc Lindsay @ Saturday, 18th February 2006 @ 7:35 PM

Most people spend their time on the computer chatting, checking emails, playing online games, and general time wasting. A lot of people don’t realise this but the internet has so many opportunities for an individual to make money online. So far one of the most efficient ways to make money online is by taking an online paid survey. An online paid survey means that you get paid per survey that you complete. Great that means I’ll just do a hundred a day and I won’t have to work for anyone bu... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Dave Guindon @ Friday, 27th January 2006 @ 7:48 PM

Finding hot items on eBay can be surprisingly simple using a few little-known tricks. Let's get started... You can easily search through eBay using their advanced search tool and look for items that generate over 25-30 bids. eBay recently integrated an advanced search option where you can select the minimum and maximum number of bids per auction listing. Set the minimum to 25 and the maximum to 1000. Then, browse through these auctions and look at the nu... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Tim Knox @ Thursday, 26th January 2006 @ 1:38 AM

Q: I have a great idea for an amazing new product. There is nothing like it on the market and no competition that I can find. I think it will be a huge success and so does everyone I tell the idea to. I'm willing to bet the farm on this one. What do you think my chances of success are? A: I'm a lousy poker player, mainly because I can't help grinning like the village idiot when blessed with a winning hand or frowning like a sad clown when dealt a dud. I also never ma... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Anik Singal @ Wednesday, 25th January 2006 @ 4:44 AM

To find product ideas to market one can start by researching a wide variety of specialty and niche magazines. If your local library doesn't have a big selection, make a trip to a large bookstore or news shop. The following niches usually yield excellent product ideas: COLLECTIBLES. Stamps, coins, salt shakers, jewelry, etc. HISTORY AND MEMORABILIA. Civil War, Victoriana, etc. MUSIC. Rock, classical, jazz, folks, country, hot stars, etc. HOW TO & HOBBIES. Car & motorcycle rep... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By James Hunt @

Market research can be very complicated if you are not sure what you have to do. If you want to do market research you can hire someone to help you but it is cheaper and easier to do it on your won. However, if you are doing your own market research there are some things that you should keep in mind. To start with, you should always remember that the information you collect will only be as good as your market research sample. You should always be careful when choosing your research samp... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Marige O'Brien @

For affiliate Marketers (AMs) success is all about investing in effective advertising. That sounds simple enough. Except that, for every successful AM, there are dozens who never get past the "first base" of making an income (no matter how small) from their efforts. Why not? Because, no matter what the elements of any advertising campaign,one vital factor is knowing how to choose the best, most cost-effective products (advertising tools), for the investment dollar. In ... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By Matthew Tibble @

Without doubt, understanding what a customer’s wants and needs are is one of the most important aspects of running a business. You must know your customer. For the most part your customer will buy on emotion, especially for products or services that are not a necessity and where there are a number of suppliers for the same item. Understanding and defining why your customer shops the way they do is your key to success. There may be a number of factors that are common amongst your targ... more...

Marketing » Market Research | By James Hunt @

Stock Research is a complicated thing. There are certain things that you have to look at when doing stock research. Below is a list of things that you need to research when looking at stocks. 1. Read Annual Reports – If you are looking and studying certain companies while doing stock research then a good area to start with is there annual reports. To find these reports all you need to do is ask the investor relations and they will send you a copy of the report. You should also read the ... more...