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Other Simple Market Research Ideas

Other Ideas

* Ask your existing customers - Conduct a survey of your target market with Survey Monkey.

* Invite a group out for lunch and have in informal focus group.

* Contact a local MBA program and offer an internship to a grad student.

* Join online forums that talk about your kind of business.

* Set up a chat room where you conduct your own online focus groups.

Take the time to do the market research upfront. Renegade entrepreneurs may find this task tedious, but I promise you, it won't be as painful as regularly dusting the thousands of dollars of unshipped product you could have laying around your office!

Business & Marketing guru Kelly O'Neil is passionate about helping entrepreneurs succeed in business through her Business Mastery Success System. She is the lead author of "Visionary Women Inspiring the World: 12 Paths to Personal Power" (Skyward, 2005) and is writing her second book Guerilla Business Strategy with mega-marketing genius Jay Conrad Levinson. For more information, visit www.uplevelstrategies.com.

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