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Question

Free market research alternative to surveymonkey?

Apr 2, 2016 8:18AM PDT

I've got an idea for a business and I'm planning to get a bank loan, but I'm missing the market research from my plan. There are so many market research companies, but they are all expensive. So is there anywhere I can conduct free market research? Not surveymonkey or other similar websites, as that means shopping around on forums for people to answer.

Thanks in advance.

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Since SurveyMonkey has a free plan.
Apr 2, 2016 9:29AM PDT

And I think you took a statistics class, why would you need more than 100 answers?

Or the old school, paper forms and sit yourself out on a public spot to collect responses (costs more than Survey Monkey free.)

At times I feel folk lose what they learned in statistics class.

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Free market research
Apr 2, 2016 10:17AM PDT

Old school is fine (although interviewing locally would still add an element of bias in), but the main issue is that I need interviews in US/Canada, and I live in UK. I also can't rely on the 'correct' nationalities responding with surveymonkey. So I need an alternative to surveymonkey that allows targeting.

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In that case no online system will suffice.
Apr 2, 2016 10:35AM PDT

Since locations can be spoofed your requirement can't be met with any internet survey.

The likelihood of a person lying is pretty low so back to statistics. Do you remember the numbers in regard to sample size and statistical power.

There are many that forgot all that and then some that want it to be accurate versus statistically accurate.

So with the free 100 samples, why not may a survey for each country then at 100 you get a statistically powerful enough answer.

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No alternative to surveymonkey then - a shame!
Apr 4, 2016 12:20PM PDT

So from your reply that there is no surveymonkey alternative that allows targeting to USA (for free anyway). Oh well, I guess I'll keep looking, thanks for your time R. Proffitt.

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I think you missed the statistics here.
Apr 4, 2016 12:45PM PDT

There's no reason for most surveys to go over 100. This is due to statistics. I attempted to broach that subject but you seem to want more than a statically good result.

Why not put one of your questions as What Country and then create a new survey for each country? 100 answers for almost all surveys gets you about 80% power and way up the table I see at http://www.3rs-reduction.co.uk/html/6__power_and_sample_size.html to the right of "Determining sample size by power analysis"

So again, why won't 100 samples do for a survey?

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Try the Market Research App ?
Jun 8, 2016 5:53AM PDT

Well there are tons of survey sites all around why not try an app currently i am using survtapp to conduct surveys on the go!! you can even make surveys, manage your accounts and parameters even you are offline!!

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Post was last edited on June 8, 2016 6:05 AM PDT