I'm interested in having help in my market research for my company start up. I haven't got any funding at the moment, but would be interested when I have funding.

Hi Elfulford

Thanks for replying to the message and letting me know you may be interested in some of the consultancy we could offer,

At the moment, as this is an unproven service, albeit one I am sure would add considerable value to your market research, I would be happy to help you for free since it will allow me to get more experience in this area and see the type of service that people may need.

If you'd like to know more, feel free to let me know how I could get in contact, preferably by email and we can go from there.

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Why bother with market study? any person who's ever worked through a enterprise design understands the answer to this one. Trying to start a little business without researching your potential market is as shrewd as setting out for the North pole with a surfboard.

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I do understand the value of knowing your customer, although you would be surprised just how few startups have something as simple as a tracking script on their website. Adequate tracking and split testing can really help.

I have set up a few of my clients with Adwords Remarketing which allows you to change your sales strategy based on the visitors behaviour on-site. I realise this is not the market research you are talking about, however with knowledge and ability, you can do a lot of it without the need to actually interact with your visitors.

To your question, yes there is a lot of value in it (for me), the difficulty is in (objectively) proving the value to businesses who already have hundreds of other outgoings.

Dave.
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Hi Everyone,

I think this is a key topic and am inclined to agree with London Guy that Start Ups don't do enough market research... This often comes down to resource or the perception that the research won't be particularly valid.

For me, the survey type approach has a key limitation. Namely, that there are no consequences to a hypothetical question.... in other words, if you ask a simple question like 'would you buy product X' then saying 'yes' does not oblige the responded to actually purchase! Perhaps it is better to test market where possible (?)

However, I think the key reason a start up business should conduct research is simply the benefits that you get from going out and looking the customer in the eye - it builds confidence and you tend to learn a lot (even if it's different from what you set out to learn)

Thanks for raising an interesting topic.

Best wishes,

Mark.
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