statistics from more than 100 agencies http://www.fedstats.gov
This can be tough to find online, even though we all love Google (except Yahoo and MSN). I d look at compete.com, maybe alexa.com for stats and maybe some market research. Then I d look up market research companies (especially those near you if your topic is necessarily geographically focused); looking at what they offer and how they claim to offer their services. There are gobs of government research available online, but you have to be very clear on what you want and then go through alot to find it. Try your local Secretary of State website and then looking for internet based market research companies. Usually stats are better and more important than market research (some would argue that stats are market research).Look at other companies doing what it is that you want to do and study their annual reports, websites, board of directors (if they have one) and how they run, who they hire to help them with research and development, and you ll start to see patterns.
