Recommendations on how to get free demographics for an area.

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by wheelstb, Jan 16, 2013.

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    I am doing marketing work for a local income tax service franchise and I would like to be able to get more specific information about the potential customers in our territory. Can anyone give me some advice on how get free or low-cost demographics about our area?
     
    wheelstb, Jan 16, 2013 IP
  2. wheelstb

    wheelstb Active Member

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    Thanks. I do understand the nature of demographics. If we better understand the groups of people in our area we can better develop a strategy and refined tactics that will allow us to target the most productive group of customers.
     
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    Here's a sneaky way of doing it:

    Call your local newspaper or magazine company.

    Ask them for a "Media Kit"

    They'll usually email it to you. Local magazines are great; They'll usually
    have the income, ethnicity, if they have kids, home owners or renters,
    age... etc.

    I'm sure there's a better way of doing this, but this is how I did it.

    Best Regards,
    Brain Copy
     
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    James Byun Active Member

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    This can work, but make sure you back up "wanting" to do some type of media kit, or else they will just hang up.
     
    James Byun, Jan 16, 2013 IP
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    wheelstb Active Member

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    Thanks a lot for the advice. I will definitely give it a try tomorrow.
     
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    SlimAds Peon

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    Start with wikipedia , and then city-data forums .
     
    SlimAds, Jan 22, 2013 IP