Talk:Market research

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[edit] List of firms

While good intentioned, the list of notable market research firms was becoming a bit spammy. I've removed the entire section and moved all the firms to the existing article List of marketing research firms. --AbsolutDan (talk) 06:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Query

What does '[Burns 2001]' mean? And there were a few others like it, I didn't remove them because I've no idea what they're for. Shamess 14:28, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General

Article is not fact-based - it has hardly anything about origins, development and influence of market research, which is a significant feature of recent cultural history and needs a proper article. Phrases like "Your customers will benefit because..." and "In the next chapter..." suggest it has come from a training booklet. Oldwes 15:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC) Old Wes

Wikipedia is a resource, this is relevant to marketing research, I'm sitting in a classroom typing up a paper about Makret research, and marketing a theme park, trust me, it's usefull. NickBrett 08:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

OK glad the instructional stuff is useful - I'm not suggesting removing it, just adding something for the people who want to know what the phrase means and where it came from.

Man, this article is stolen. Next chapter?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.106.60.22 (talk) 00:13, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moved from article for discussion

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is one of the most powerful computer-based tools used to identify, gather, and compare data on potential customers by relating the potential market area to the population geographically. For example, various demographic data sources are available from the U.S. Census at the Census Tract and ZIP Code area levels. Basically these are tables of thousands of areas across the United States, for which dozens of standardized data is collected periodically. GIS can associate this data record-by-record to a corresponding geographic boundary that has already been digitized or mapped. A study area can be defined and mapped, and then the tract or ZIP code level data for that specific area or region can be selected and combined. This technique has been adapted to even relate important online marketing tools, such as Craigslist websites, to demographic data.

This was added by 72.64.142.16 (talk · contribs). I've removed it as spam and pov. --Ronz 19:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but I haven't posted much to wikipedia. Thought the article was good but needed update on GIS, that I use all the time. I didn't even make a link to my website did I?

[edit] Plagiarism

I've run a google search on the first sentence, and I'm pretty sure part of the article is a copyright violation from http://zpryme.com/expertise.html. V. Joe (talk) 19:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)