Business Research: Market Analysis: Strategies & Resources

• RKMA Market Research Handbooks

The content include following titles and the archive.

• Business-to-Business Marketing 2018-2019
• Consumer Behavior 2019-2020
• Consumer Marketing 2018-2019
• Consumer Use Of The Internet & Mobile Web 2018-2019
• Entertainment, Media & Advertising Market Research Handbook 2019-2020
• Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook 2019-2020
• International Consumer Markets 2018-2019
• Leisure Business Market Research Handbook 2019-2020
• Restaurant, Food & Beverage Market Research Handbook 2018-2019
• Retail Business Market Research Handbook 2019-2020
• Sports Marketing 2018-2019
• Travel & Tourism Market Research Handbook 2019-2020

County Profiles
Online.  From the Maine's Center for Workforce Research and Information.

Economics & Demographics
Online.  From the State of Maine Office of Policy and Management.

Mainebiz: The Fact Book 

Maine Statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Good for personal income statistics

Maine Newsstand
Full text coverage of the following Maine newspapers:

• Bangor Daily News (1992 - )
• Kennebec Journal (1993- )
• Maine Times (1994-2002)
• Morning Sentinel (1993- )
• Portland Press Herald (1995 - )
• Sun Journal (2006 - present) 

URSUS - Library catalog to find books/ebooks

Google Scholar - Find journal articles across databases.

Journal Article Databases

Business Premium Collection
It combines the broad coverage of the ABI/INFORM database with specialty business resources, most available full text.

Taylor & Francis online journals
170 journals covering Business, Finance & Industry (about 40 titles are also available in BSC).

Wiley Online Library
170 Journals covering Business, Economics, Finance & Accounting (about 80 titles are also available in BSC).

Springer Link
150 Journals covering business and management (about 25 titles are also available in BSC).

ScienceDirect
125 Journals covering Business, Management and Accounting (about 16 titles are also available in BSC).

SAGE Journals Online
110 Journals covering Management & Organization Studies, Marketing & Hospitality (about 20 titles are also available in BSC).

Maine Business Science Technology Library Portal (MBSTL)

The website is designed for small business owners with almost all free resources. It collected content from important national and local small business sources (SCORE, SBA, etc.) and organized them by topic. It links to webinars, handbooks, guides, templates and more. 

Statista including Experian Simmons National Consumer Study; The Ipsos Affluent Survey USA 

Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition - 2.3

You can view the interactive map or create a report based on your industry and business locations. Try search your town or city first, if it provides limited data, try county or state. (Instruction on how to use this website)

• Census Data
• US Census Data Demographic and Housing Estimates
• Consumer Expenditure Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program, which consists of two surveys, the Quarterly Interview Survey and the Diary Survey, that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers.

More New Strategist Press Publications

• Who’s Buying Series
• American Buyers: Demographics of Shopping [2014]
• American Attitudes: What Americans Think About the Issues that Shape Their Lives [2014]
• Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends
• The Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946-1964 [2012] 
• Generation X: Americans Born 1965 to 1976 [2012]
• The Millennials: Americans born 1977 to 1994 [2012]
• Older Americans: A Changing Market [2012] 
• American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money [2014]
• The next four decades: older population in the United States: 2010 to 2050