With effective market research, you can determine the need for your service, a product's likelihood to sell, target-market demographics, and desirable store locations. There are numerous ways to uncover this information - from online research to focus groups to counting customers.
Use the web sites below as a starting place to begin gathering information, to know where your industry is headed, and to plan your business to take advantage of market trends. You can also find current market information for any zip code in the U.S. on the BIC's Demographic Reports page.
List of online information sources to help you quickly find the help you need to get your business moving.
Leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. Information is also available at the state and county level.
Central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
Gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies.
Analysis of markets, trends, etc. for approximately 300 different careers. Brief career descriptions include the nature of the work, education and training requirements, and outlook and market trends.
A collection of country reports, international market analyses, and commercial guides.
The site allows free patent searching, free patent PDF downloading, set up competetive intelligence alerts, and more. It's a great resource for patent searching, R&D, and market research.
