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Stainless steel blenders and tumblers are everywhere. People get them as free giveaways at conventions or as corporate gifts. But they’re not always easy to carry around, often having no lids or requiring a lid that won’t fit exactly right on another model of tumbler. 

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Canadian giant Shopify’s stock has grown tenfold in the last 3 years. The platform powers millions of merchants worldwide, enabling them to sell online with ease.

Many of you have asked for advice on the best way to do market research. We’ve had a few posts about this in our Facebook group (here, here, and here), and we thought it would be helpful to provide a dynamic template and two examples of market research in action.

At Jamestown Fish in Rhode Island, where Matt Tortora was a chef, customers demanded fresh, premium ingredients. The restaurant typically bought them from distributors. “I could pick up the phone, give them a call, and in some cases, same day, get what I needed,” Tortora says.