Well, okay, “give-up” does not really fit into my vocabulary. I mostly hear myself refered to as “stubborn” but in reality its “determination” that I have lived my life based on. But come midnight tonight I had a moment of were I decided that it is somewhat imposible to start a business on our own (me and my business partner) no matter how much determination I poses towards the business. On top of that, I really am thinking that it really is not the job of entrepreneurs to implement every single aspect of the business all by themselves. A very huge role of the entrepreneurs are to excite other individuals enough about your businesses motivation for starting that they are willing to help you out in the process.

I am going to be doing my own market research for our proposed document/content management wing of Helm Technology Solutions, LLC.  Traditionally (especially a few years back) I would never actually be able to have access to the expensive market reports.  Now, using even just a few online tools, I can essentially perform my own market research without putting too much effort into the whole deal.  Here are a few sites that you can use to perform your practically free market research.

1.   http://www.wufoo.com: Obviously, you need some site to create a form for you to fill out.  Wufoo practices the “do one thing, but do it really well” business model and is the best way to create a survey online that I have seen yet.  They allow you to create a few limited forms, I went ahead and paid the 9 bucks a month to upgrade my account though.  Totally worth it to make sure this little business is around for a little bit.
2. http://www.linkedin.com: We are currently living in the age of social networking online, so obviously number 2 should just be any social networking site that you actively use most.  I choose linkedin here simply because I have done some preliminary searching for my “target market” and know there are quite a few individuals to pull from on this site.
3. http://www.giveanything.com: If you need a little incentive (I am planning on doing this for my market research) to make sure that people feel its worth their time to fill your survey out, you can reward them with a gift certificate from giveanything.com.  They allow you to email gift certificates for hundereds of stores.