Questions regarding any organized effort to gather information about markets or customers.
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Tips on promoting a start up [closed]
What is the best way to promote a starting up like(follow, tweet, share, etc.) exchange site at minimal costs?
Any recommendations on how should one build strategy to enable paid services without ...
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How do I validate an idea for a service with infrequent, time-sensitive users using the 'coming soon' page method?
I have an idea that I would like to test using a 'coming soon' landing page. In my instance, the idea is for consumers looking to research, plan and arrange a holiday (vacation).
I can see why this ...
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Gathering ideas for startup business [closed]
I have a question involving gathering start-up ideas. I am a web developer of 4 years, over this time I have gathered experience in web development, some experience in internet marketing such as SEO, ...
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Research if patent holder is a troll
I've recently discovered a patent for a product that's in the field of the product I'm working on. The patent itself has zero direct resemblance to the product I'm working on, but there are "early ...
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What conversion rate should new site expect? [closed]
For online info product related sites, what type of conversion rate should a new B2C site expect? I'm thinking below 1%.
Are there any references to conversion numbers for his category?
Is the ...
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Are there any market stats on peer-to-peer lending of material goods? [closed]
Looking for consumer behavior data on lending material goods among peers to understand how often people lend things to peers and how various parameters impact this behavior (social proximity, ...
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How to determine the cost of acquiring participants/beta testers for market research?
I am working on a proposal which will include the cost of acquisition for market research participants. The participants in this case will using a chrome extension and reporting back on their ...
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Name Prior to Market Research
A few friends and I have come up with an idea that we want to do some research on. I was planning on moving forward, whilst following the advice many people have given on here and elsewhere, by ...
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Doing (market)-research/analysis for startup idea
I'd like to know which options I have or which routes you went in order to get some data about how well an idea "can" do in the real world. How can I do market research/analysis myself? Should I bring ...
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Is my target market big enough?
Background information: I'm looking to start an entrepreneurship. My goal is to generate a net revenue of $4000/month (for example), probably through a SaaS software offering (think GMail).
My ...
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How to Research and Determine Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
I'm working on the executive summary for my website idea and need to figure out the total market capitalization for the this industry.
For example, if all the yearly advertising (and other) revenue ...
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How do I source prizes and gifts for a competition site?
Every day I receive invitations to win holidays, gift vouchers, cash, cars etc. When you go to the site there are literally hundreds if these deals listed.
I know some of these sites simply compile a ...
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How can I encourage participation in a survey?
I am about to do a customer development survey, which will be promoted either via AdWords or via an email campaign (maybe both).
I did a few tests with AdWords ads and it seems like responses level ...
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Where to start our Market Research
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Hi there,
Our product is a cloud based application available cross platform. It's functionality, summed up, is too help you share the books you read with your friends.
We are in the stages ...
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How can i find reliable fellow independent online retailers to blog about?
I am starting a blog to coincide with my online gift business and i want to write positively about other gifts i have found on the web. I would prefer to give credit to fellow small online independent ...
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An 'any software you want' approach to marketing?
I want to start a software business. It's probably been said a million times before on this forum, and software start-up's being in such abundance is one of the reasons for this question.
I don't ...
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Market validation for expensive, enterprise software
I have a working prototype for an enterprise software. It is basically a very niche product catering a subset of the engineering firm. Now, what I need, is to validate the market as soon and as ...
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Evaluating competitors assets
I'm curious to know how most go about gathering information regarding their competitors? I am interested in developing an application that would directly compete with numerous websites and I am having ...
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A few technical, non-sales guys would like to know "Where to start from ?'
We have an idea and a proof of concept, the idea is pretty specific to stealthy debuggin and binary code analysis .
The problem is that we are pure technical guys,
we don't know the market and ...
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Google search trends monetization ideas
I have a simple software which can to get current google search trends. It's based on information about what people are searching now(well i have a little percent of current search queries). Insted of ...
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How Would You Market A Product To High Schools? (Most Effective Way)?
Lets's say you guys had a product you sold for $20.
Let's say the product was for high school football coaches. What would be the most effective way to reach the North American Market?
The only way ...
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Researching competition that is under-cutting the market
Scenario:
I'm in the market research stage of my startup (manufacturing), and when researching my competition I noticed one company who is able to provide similar goods to what I plan to sell at a ...
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Difference between a “new business” and a “startup” market research
Appears the largest difference difference a "new business" and a "startup" is the entities relationship to markets, the research of them, and as a result, the engagement of a market via some service, ...
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How can I do branding research online cheaply and quickly?
I'm just starting my business, I have an idea for a game that I think will be very popular. Trouble is, I can't decide on a good name for it that fits and is memorable. So I want to do some market ...
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How to do marketing research in Finance related software?
I am a software developer in Canada. 2 years ago, a close friend referred me a business owner who is running Futures trading firm(12+ employees) in Chicago. He need some system to help them manage ...
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How To Find New Problems to Solve or Ideas for Products To Work On?
What is the thought sequence, particuarlly in a new venture that you're thinking about or have already started? Do cool things just randomly pop in your head after whatever things you do through ...
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How to get full grocery store inventory?
I don't have money for a warehouse right now and I want to ship food with JIT inventory. But in order to do so, I need to have a list of products (around 3000 of them) the store sells. And I need to ...
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Recommendations on market segmentation books and blogs
I'm looking to improve conversion rates for my service by improving the tightening the messaging and copy. To achieve that, I want to improve the market segmentation as it'll ease the process of ...
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How should I launch an API demo as an MVP?
I have an API that I would like to launch as an MVP, to gauge market interest.
It extracts keywords from text.
Goals:
Acquire users on my mailing list, so I can market other products and services ...
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Estimating market size when creating a new market
How would a startup that intends to provide a brand new type of service quantify the market potential without spending a lot of money on legitimate survey research? Or without rolling out the product ...
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Is my procedure for determining market size based on keyword search traffic a good one?
I'm making a software for a very small and specific market. Worldwide, the numbers seem good. That is, there is a possibility for business. Nevertheless, I wanted to post my procedure. The question is ...
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What tools to use to predict future market trends for SMB?
What tools do you use to predict future market trends when running small business ?
Tools I am trying to use are, for example:
Google Insights
data analysis that could be learned from blogs such ...
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How do I find out how big the market is?
I see it come up over and over again, like this is a 2$ billion market, we are in a 3$ billion market, etc...
Where do you find this data? I've been searching and it's really hard to google something ...
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What are android sales numbers?
As part of making a business case I'm trying to gather data for Android phone sales (quantity and dollar value) by continent. I was initially hoping this would be something that Google could provide ...
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How to approach people when conducting a market survey?
I am trying to conduct a market survey, using it to gauge the experiences of people who visit a very old open-air market and what improvements they would like to see. This place is pretty popular ...
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How do you get data on prices and deal offers from local merchants?
What the best way and economical to get updates about the prices and offers from local dealers?
I want to cover 58 areas local dealers/retailers from my city.
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How do you get immediate information about a product launch announcement? [closed]
How to be one of the first few to get the information of any product launch announcement?
How does the release or launch of any upcoming product or service get into the news?
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How to analyse products to sell online to make the most profit?
As a developer myself, I've set up an e-commerce website in England and hired 2 people to help me package and invoice etc..
In terms of choosing the right and most profitable products to sell what ...
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How many users use Google, Yahoo, MSN and Outlook Calendars? [closed]
I'm working on a product and needs to check how many users are using web based calendars. Or how many users create calendar events per year. I need this to figure out the market size. I tried to ...
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How to make revenue and user acquisition projections for product which is not launched yet?
How can you make revenue and user acquisition projections before launching your product?
And are they worth anything?
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How Do I Define and Research a Market and Estimate Market Share
Marketing your startup takes many forms. The classical marketing approach revolves around the 4 P’s: Product, Price, Promotion and Place.
In this question and answer, we will discuss place, which ...
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What to include in our funding requirements?
We're a small group of IT students and recently we came up with an idea that we're going to pitch with business plan in an event hoping to get feedback and funding from investors. (Ok, I read that ...
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How to find the market size, expected revenue etc. for any start up idea? for eg market size of online flash banner creator websites
I have seen many website which create flash banner ads online and you can directly download the customized flash banner, thought it is not a new business idea I feel I can add some unique feature to ...
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How many responses is enough for my data research?
Im starting a website and I am going to use a company to do data market research for me to determine the interest in my idea. How many respondents would be significant to satisfy potential ...
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections?
I'd like to get the information for Groupon or another web 2.0 company to see their revenue, subscriber, traffic, etc. curves for our business plan financial projections. They are a close model to our ...
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Market Research: Creating a Questionnaire
My company is beginning to do research to identify the biggest pain points that our potential customers have, as well as what the most appealing aspects of our software are. We are creating a ...
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Researching my market size?
I have an outdoor site that makes money by displaying ads (mostly travel and outdoor gear related) and selling outdoor gear.
I am trying to find some industry statistics on the outdoor gear size, and ...
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How many potential customers should I meet with in order to verify my idea?
I'm working on a new venture with a friend of mine, and we set to meet as many potential customers as possible before writing even a single line of code.
We've met with 2 customers and both of them ...
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Where can I find a list of software products that make significant revenue?
I am researching startup opportunities for software products (not web apps). I am especially interested to find software products that cost between 100$ and 1000$ and which make a significant revenue ...
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Six Months Into Start-Up - Focus On One Client or Expand Platforms?
I am currently working for a start-up and our first product has been in development for several months. We have reached a fork in the road and I would like to ask the OnStartups community for some ...
