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2. Market Research Market research is the process of gathering, recording and analysing data that will help you make better decisions in your business at any time, whether it being starting up or improving your business. This data can be taken from the consumers, competing businesses or secondary sources. Market research is vital for every successful business, as it can help to start or expand a business, update existing products, raise your profits, set prices, select a location for your business, launch a new product successfully, analyse and learn more about the number of consumers, e.t.c. There are 2 main types of market research - Primary and Secondary. Primary research is, simply, new data that has been collected by your own business. There are many different ways of finding primary data, including: * Questionnaires * Telephone interviews * Surveys * Observing the consumers * Consumer trials / Free samples * Visiting the competition Secondary research is based...

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