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The Entrepreneur's Library

MARKET RESEARCH TOOLS

• BizStats.com
  A wealth of data including financial ratios, business statistics, and benchmarks, on a wide range of industries.
• CorpTech Technology Company Information
  CorpTech publishes public and private business information on technology companies that make, develop and provide services related to everything from lasers to computers, and from biotech products to advanced materials.
• Delaware Corporate Information
  Look up exact legal names, date of incorporation, and related information of Delaware entities.
• Economy.com
  Tons of economic data and research available for a fee. Research is available at the metro, state, and country levels, as well as by industry.
• Free Data from Economy.com
  A cheaper version of Economy.com-- it's free! Database includes economic, demographic, income and labor market information.
• globalEDGE
  globalEDGE is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
• Kauffman Research Roundup
  The Kaufman Foundation is renowned for their "New Economy Index" that ranks states on technological indicators such as the education levels of the workforce or the number of patents filed. A great resource for all kinds of technological indicators.
• My Best Segments
  "Think of MyBestSegments as a "photo album" of consumer markets. Each of the Claritas market segments has its own pages that display "snapshots" of the segment's demographic traits, lifestyle preferences and consumer behaviors."
• SEC Info
  "Securities Information from the SEC EDGAR® database for sophisticated business professionals. We simply publish SEC/CSA Filings, filed by companies, institutions and individuals..."
• Small Business Indicators
  "Small Business Indicators reports bring together monthly and quarterly data from a wide variety of sources. Use the information-packed two page reports to learn more about what is driving the small business economy in the United States." Each quarterly report covers trends affecting small business, economic indicators over the last five years and the last five quarters, and macroeconomic statistics.
• Smallbusiness.com State Profiles
  Presents statistics by state for companies considering entrance into the B-2-B market.
• Social Science Data Services
  A variety of social science, government, and geographic data.
• TheInfoPro (TIP)
  TheInfoPro (TIP) is an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Created by alumni of Gartner, EMC, Giga and Bell Labs, TIP produces fundamental, objective, analyst–free research on: markets, vendors, issues, future adoption plans, and investor confidence.
• U.S. Census Bureau
  Access the results of the 2000 Census, 2007 Economic Census and other household and economic indicators.
• ZoomProspector
  "ZoomProspector speeds up and simplifies the process of site selection analysis so that companies can quickly identify the optimal location for their business start-up, expansion or relocation. Businesses define the community and property characteristics that are important to them. Then ZoomProspector uses its online mapping technology to search and display the locations that exactly match the company's needs. ZoomProspector objectively identifies the optimal communities for your business based on consistent, third-party data so you can truly compare apples-to-apples for all locations in the United States."

• Elements of Effective Market Research
  The author posts a series of questions to help you hone in on the key elements of market research.
• Market Research on a Tight Budget
  Useful, common-sense, and mostly free market research ideas.
• Marketing Tactics Worth the Money- Forbes.com
  Advice on how to get the word out about your company in the best and most cost-effective way possible. Discusses the most effective marketing and advertising techniques, such as getting yourself noticed by search engines and generating word-of -mouth advertising that is crucial for the profitability of any small business.
• Use Online Listening for Competitive Research
  "Wish you could afford to sharpen your communications through customer understanding? And obtain actionable tips quickly on a budget? It’s your lucky day. This post will show you how to learn more about your customers than you do now to improve your communications efforts all by digging into data you already have or have access to."

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