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4 FREE Ways to Gather Marketing Intelligence

Market research firms can be very helpful to businesses since they offer information regarding customers' priorities, motivations, decision-making patterns, and even their budgets. However, these firms are often expensive for small businesses.

6 Tips for Determining Your Pricing Structure

Even if you have the best product or service in the world, if your price is wrong, it could really hurt your business. If your price is too high, you won't get business; and if your price is too low, you won't make any profit. So, what is a business to do?

It Starts with a "Great" Idea...

If every "great idea" became a business, how many businesses do you think we would have? We would likely have a lot of businesses but instead, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting the unemployment rate at 9.4 percent for July 2009.

Market Research More Important Than Ever

Imagine for a moment that Ford had stuck with the Model T from 1908 through today.  The company would be fantastic at making them by now, pumping the things out quickly and for little money, but the car would still fail to meet most consumers' needs.  Market research represents an important solution to this problem.

Research Doesn't Have to Break You

Social Media is not only good for networking and marketing, but can come in quite handy for a bit of free market research as Kari Rippetoe at the Caffeinated Blog discusses.