The Entrepreneur's Guide to Market Research
eBook - ePub

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Market Research

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Market Research

About this book

Planning your new business starts here. This invaluable guide arms entrepreneurs with all they need to know to research and analyze potential markets—key steps in constructing effective marketing plans, establishing sound financial forecasts, and finding backers. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Market Research is a must-have for anyone who wants to start or expand a business. This fact-filled, actionable book offers a step-by-step guide to researching and documenting the market potential of any product or service, something that is an essential—and too-often overlooked—part of constructing a workable business plan. Author Anne M. Wenzel, herself a principal in a market research firm, takes entrepreneurs through the process of assessing such things as market size and growth, market trends and needs, emerging technologies, competition, and distribution patterns. She discusses types of market research and makes it clear what market research can and can't do to improve the chances of success. Finally, the book shows entrepreneurs how to document findings as part of a well-written business plan that will be invaluable for their own decision-making and can also be shared with potential partners, lenders, and investors.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780313396052
eBook ISBN
9798216080169
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. What Market Research Is—And Is Not
  8. 2. Typical Outline for a Business Plan Market Analysis
  9. 3. Types of Market Research
  10. 4. Developing a Demographic Profile
  11. 5. Researching Trends in Our Markets
  12. 6. Distribution and Spending Patterns
  13. 7. Estimating the Size and Growth of the Market
  14. 8. The Competition: Competitors, Emerging Trends, and Technologies
  15. 9. Exploratory Market Research
  16. 10. Putting It All Together
  17. 11. Fitting the Market Analysis into the Business Plan
  18. Appendix I—Business Plan Template
  19. Appendix II—Sample Market Analysis: The Yoga Market
  20. Index