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Internet and Marketing: The best way to find informations
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> Sometimes nothing beats just asking a question! It used to be that these > newsgroups were the place to do that, and some (particularly moderated > groups such as this one) still are. But many of the others are so taken > over by junk that "real people" have completely abandoned them.
Hopefully not the moderated groups. Also, there are filters in newsreaders, which, when used carefully, remove most of the garbage. In general, sci.* groups are good places to post technical questions, and after hanging there for a while it’s easy to see who the garbage-posters are (usually crossposting to talk.* or alt.* groups, where their intelectual cohort resides). > I would be interested in hearing your comments about the site.
It’s a cute site; I randomly checked a couple of topics and found them somewhat lacking, considering what you can get out of some groups, a trip to the library or even commonsense. Most of the topics were empty, which is, I suppose, a hint that the site is under construction. — Real e-mail address: remove the ‘remove’s from e-mail field E-home: http://web.mit.edu/camoes/public/home.html
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Hello to all who use this Newsgroup, I have been follwing some of the e-mails to this and other Newsgroups e-mail to any newsgroup so please forgive any errors/omissions or mistakes. In response to gathering of information, whilst not eating into valuable time has anyone used the I-net product ‘AUTONOMY’?, (the name of the software firm escapes me at present, but is UK based). The product apparently trawls the internet looking at sites of information on keywords provided while you are not connected. Does this product work, i would be very interested in any experiences. It’s been fun and interesting so far reading all your e-mails. Regards – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >The I-net as a resource for market information. Great! But the quality and >volume of information you can find on the web in my experience extremely >depends on the branch you are in. >If you work in IT, as I do, the web offers you good sources to gather >information on technology, markets and trends once you know where! On the >other hand sometimes I wonder if I should stop sitting in front of my >computer for hours to find information. And instead hand this over to some >externals. Means that you can spend a lot of money (wokring time) on that. >But it is also easier for you if you can clearly define what you are >looking for.
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>The I-net as a resource for market information. Great! But the quality and >volume of information you can find on the web in my experience extremely >depends on the branch you are in. >If you work in IT, as I do, the web offers you good sources to gather >information on technology, markets and trends once you know where! On the >other hand sometimes I wonder if I should stop sitting in front of my >computer for hours to find information. And instead hand this over to some >externals. Means that you can spend a lot of money (wokring time) on that. >But it is also easier for you if you can clearly define what you are looking > for.
Sometimes nothing beats just asking a question! It used to be that these newsgroups were the place to do that, and some (particularly moderated groups such as this one) still are. But many of the others are so taken over by junk that "real people" have completely abandoned them. An alternative: I’ve developed an unusual Web site that I invite you to try. It’s called the Small Business Technoplex Answer Page, and it’s free to all. We have over two dozen volunteer experts who are just waiting to answer your questions. We also have a Knowledge Base of previously asked questions (and their answers) for you to search. And even though you get your answers via e-mail, your address is closely guarded so you don’t need to worry about bulk e-mailers. The Answer Page is at http://www.technoplex.com/answerpage.html I would be interested in hearing your comments about the site. — Kurt Schweitzer Sunrise Consulting, Inc. 716-427-7574 http://www.sunriseconsulting.com/ Small Business Technoplex – http://www.technoplex.com
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>Cybermarketing does not means only advertising and sales. I would like to >exchange some ideas with anybody of you about Market Reserches on line The best >way to find useful informations about markets, customer, products.
Maurizio: If the product/service has better potential to be sold online rather than via traditional channels then marketing research as to target market is very good with plenty of data available. But *free* data for those not online target markets is not in abundance. We are all quick to assume that the Internet must have the, if not all, the data and thus forget offline sources. We can spend hours searching, unless we find jump-off points featuring links and links. Try http://www.nijenrode.nl/mbmm as I did not spend hours establishing a marketing resource section just to take up server space. We will see more and more niche search engines and sites offering marketing data but don’t expect them to be free. Further, libraries have yet to place their full content online which would not just include titles. For this to happen takes money and plenty of man hours. To deal with the *Oh, what a web we weaved*, get yourself an Internet finder program. I use Symantec’s Internet FastFind (there may still be a trial offer- http://www.symantec.com). It has WebFind which checks the eight major search engines (on-off toggle), processing in the background and presenting findings in a simple overview. Just click on the retrieved links.