Who are the market leaders?\nWhat are the latest trends?\nWhat business/marketing strategies work?
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I would go onto Amazon, there are books you can purchase on how to write an effective market research survey that are really helpful.  I've used a few for classes in the past.  You have to remember that the questions can't be leading.
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demographics my friend. Supply and demand see http://thebaldchemist.blogspot.com for advice.
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Most of my team simply tracks ROI. We really work towards an average cost to acquire a customer. Then we look at overall customer profitability: average annual profit per customer - acquisition cost. We have unqiue telephone numbers set up for each advertising campaign we run offline and we have web beacons on our website so we can tie all revenues and profit online to where the advertising dollars were spent.
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I'd go with 1.  The search engine field is still relatively new and people with better technologies and marketing will move ahead over time.  Google has gained a lot of market share over the last few years.\n\nThe Answers here aren't really worth that much.  There is so much junk and garbage that gets through, along with many of the "Best Answers" just being plain wrong.  There are some good answers here and there but I don't really see Answer ever being that great a source for solid information.
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About 60 % of small businesses see value in creating web sites for marketing and in e-commerce.\n\nSome of the issues facing development are what plat form do i use do i include flash tecnology and what vendor do i use for the e-commerce component.  it has to be user friendly and current at all times which means regular updating,  You must also alow user to give feed back and or have a help feature built in.\n\nThey see this as a very valuable asset to their business as the internet is becoming the fastest growing medium for any business and users are very comfortable in using this medium.
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In terms of overall brands (from a marketing perspective). Interbrands does an annual study of the largest global brands\n\nIf you are looking for which brands are the biggest in terms of market share, it gets trickier. There are brand share statistics from vendors such as Gartner, IDC, Forrester, etc. There are also some statistics from industry associations. However, in the electronics space, most vendors sell into multiple categories - often making share difficult to identify.\n\nIf you are asking what is best for your business - go to Gartner or Forrester - one of the buyer-side analysts
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I have seen sharp rises & decreases in businesses large & small. I kep track of busiess market trends online. I know that if there is a sudden decline in your inbound sales calls you may want to either explore other advertising options or reasearch your marketing area to see if competition has suck in on you. Best of luck to you.
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1. Globalisation. \n   \nNo longer can management think in the box. Focus is on the world much more than localities.\n\n2. Information Superhighway.\n\nThe World Wide Web has changed the way we market. Various options will need to be looked at before money is committed to any form of marketting.\n\n3. Delivery\n\nShipping used to be easy. With the world as your market, logistics have to be in place to meet these needs.\n\n4. International Laws\n\nThe boderless world however necessitates that we know and appreciate international laws which can affect us.\n\n5. Foreign Currency.\n\nHedging, Conversions, exchange rates etc all these are key to operating in the changing world .
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How about incentives. sales, price cuts for select products jsut to get people in the door. How about a special opening for preferred clients?\n\nGood luck!
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Looks good.\n\nPerhaps you can do more paper based marketing to shopping mall area and etc.
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You can read an Article on marketing,promoting,Advertising.Your web site or product here.\nHope this helps,\nHave a great day,\nSurfin.
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Great career choice both in the industry and the academia. Definitely more creative than finance or even IT (except when you are creating the next Google). \n\nThe con is that marketing types are more likely to be laid-off in a downturn since marketing spend is still treated discretionary in many companies dominated by engineers or the finance types. \n\nHowever the paid-search phenomenon is changing that perception and making marketing more measurable and accountable, so future of marketing looks bright.
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You have to be careful when looking for a deal. If a market seems underpriced it is usually because there is less value there. Overture / Yahoo! and Google AdWords are names you can trust. MSN AdCenter (in beta testing as of writing this) should be good too, but after them the distribution and quality likely fall off fast.\n\nThe top engines go back and forth on which provides the best ROI from vertical to vertical or even item to item or keyword to keyword based on a wide variety of factors.\n\nI need to update the following list to include MSN, but other than that it should have most of the tier 2 players listed (although for most people I just recommend focusing on Google Yahoo! and MSN).
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Just briefly, I would be asking you first what it is that you hope to achieve by having a door-door marketing team and if this is the most effective way of furthering sales and establishing yourself within the industry.\nAfter you have asked questions of yourself such as WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW you will have a better understanding of what you are looking for and where to find it.\nThats my two cents anyways, hope it helps.\nGoodluck and have a great day
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Start with a strategy and goals.\nClearly define your target audience.\nthen create a list of all the ways you can communicate with them.\nthen rank the list based on cost versus reach.\nthen try the most affordable options first.