Most businesses have the data and not the decision.
Market research is sold as something you buy. For a business under ₹5 crore that is rarely the constraint — the constraint is that the ledger, the CRM and the sales team already contain the answer and nobody has put them next to each other.
These pieces are about the cheap version that works: what a small firm can learn about its own market in a fortnight, which numbers are worth tracking monthly and which are theatre, and how to tell a genuine signal from a pattern you found because you went looking for it.
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