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Topic: Research/Metrics

Looking For Free Secondary Reasearch

Posted by Anonymous on 10/29/2007 at 1:16 PM ET 250 Points
Right now I am doing some freelance work for a local business. The business is a personal assistant service. Right now I am looking at a Target Market of Business Professionals in the 30-45 years old range.

Basically what i am looking for is a resource that will show me a basic idea of what people in this demographic typically use in terms of services.

I am not opposed to paying for research, but free would be better.

Thanks for your time,
Greg
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  • Posted by Dawson on 10/30/2007 at 4:31 AM Accepted
    I don't have anything directly for you but a tip when looking at google for data (which I'm sure you have done already). I always find that it's a good idea to search for documents as opposed to web pages and I do this using the filetype: option - e.g. search "personal assistants filetype:ppt" and it will pull up a set of search results within powerpoint documents. Also search "pdf" and "doc" filetypes.

    Hope this gives you more,
    John
  • Posted by callyway on 10/30/2007 at 1:25 PM Accepted
    In addition to Dawson's Google search recommendation, you may want to check out slideshare.net (you have to register to search, I believe, but there are a lot of great ppts there).

    Additionally, if you're a member of LinkedIn or Facebook you can pose the question to your network (and beyond possibly) so that you can get a reality-check against any data that you may find.
  • Posted on 10/30/2007 at 4:28 PM Author
    I will definitely try both of your suggestions.

    Thanks again for the help,
    Greg
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