Research demands compiling, recompiling, organizing and
cross-referencing reliable data in an organized manner consistent
with the needs of our clients
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Windhaus
Associates implements a series of low-cost tools, reliable and
proprietary sources for business and marketing plan research including:
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Archive content
from business publications, including the
Wall Street Journal,
New York Times,
CFO,
Business Week Magazine,
U.S. News & World Report,
BizJournals.com,
Consumer Reports,
American Banker and
Business 2.0.
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Access to
business plan and marketing plan research data resulting from
membership in the
IDC Enterprise Technology Trends Advisory
Council, Business Week Market Advisory Board,
and
Ziff Davis Media CIO Insight Leadership Panel.
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IT, Internet
and e-commerce archive sources are too many to list, but include
Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist,
Info World,
Information Week,
CIO Insight,
Darwin Magazine,
Network World,
Wall Street & Technology,
Computer Technology Review,
eWeek,
InforWorld and
PC Magazine.
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Demographic,
economic and socioeconomic data sources among which are the
Bureau of the Census, the
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Additional
sources include non-profit institutes of social, economic and
Internet-based initiatives.
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The items
listed below also comprise our research tools and sources of
data.
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Client budget
determines whether or not proprietary research data is to be
incorporated into a marketing or business plan project.
Vivisimo is an excellent clustering search engine with
same-page preview format, dramatically saving time and
preventing loss of pages with search results. Vivisimo has
received the
eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice award.
A proprietary,
confidential research database comes from
BizMiner when
conducting marketing and financial research. Market trends,
benchmarks and extensive, graphic financial analysis are
provided for over 14 million U.S. firms and industries in over
18,000 business sectors for all regions of the United States.
Agency clients are restricted to the confidentiality and
distribution limits of this data in their documents as
stipulated by The Brandow Company and Windhaus Associates.
Google, in our opinion, is the superior search engine for free online
research. Google offers a very simple, no-frills format, or
clustered, targeted results.
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