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How to conduct market research in startups and small firms? (Udemy.com)

A-Z guide how to conduct market research, analyze your competitors as well as customers

Created by: Asen Gyczew

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Spy on your competitors
  • Estimate the size of the market and value of customers
  • Draw conclusion on the structure of the market
  • Find ideas how to develop your business
  • Validate your ideas for new business using market data

How it compares

Against the other 371 rated Udemy courses in Data Analysis on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 49% of them
  • Reviews762#166 of 372 by number of reviews
  • Length5 hourslonger than 52% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 83% of them

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Course Description

Many business mistakes are made due to insufficient market research. That's why I created this hands-on course for you so that you can see how, with virtually no money, you can research many important aspects like the size of the market or a particular segment, the sales tactics of competitors, customer preferences, etc.

This course is based on my 15 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting firms and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, performance improvement, and turn-arounds in the biggest firms from the Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B, and services sectors that I worked for. I have carried out or supervised over 90 different performance improvement projects in different industries that generated a total of 2 billion in additional EBITDA. On the basis of what you will find in this course, I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who are now Partners in PE and VC funds, Investment Directors and Business Analysts in PE and VC, Operational Directors, COO, CRO, CEO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Board Members, etc. On top of that, my courses on Udemy were already taken by more than 350 000 students, including people working in EY, Walmart, Booz Allen Hamilton, Adidas, Naspers, Alvarez & Marsal, PwC, Dell, Walgreens, Orange, and many others.

I will show you 3 groups of market research methods:

  • Consulting methods

  • Online methods

  • Offline methods

Since we want you to be able to do market research on your own, there will be very little theory and loads of nice examples in many fields. You will master the market research in areas such as retail, fast-moving consumer goods, the food sector, online businesses, services, and some offline businesses. This training will be especially beneficial for small business owners, startups, and consultants. You will learn mystery shopping, store checks, bottom-up, and top-down approaches, and others.

You will be able also to download many additional resources

  • Links to free presentations and movies showing examples of research

  • Links to books worth reading

  • Excels with calculations, showing you how you can do the market research as well as analyses, and draw conclusions

We will use the following tools:

  • Excel

  • SimiarWeb

  • Keywords Planner by Google

  • Facebook Audience Insight

  • Facebook

  • Mobile market applications

  • Slideshare

  • Youtube

  • Our own tools/formats

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Instructor Details

Asen Gyczew

Expert in performance improvement, scaling businesses, and turning-around companies with significant experience both in management as well as in supervision of medium size companies (EUR 20 – 500 million) and startups. I have trained in person over 100 consultants, business analysts, and managers who now are Investment Directors, CEO, Partners in PE and VC funds, Sales and Marketing Directors, Operational  Directors, COO, Directors in Consulting Companies, Supply Chain Directors, Board Members, etc.


Functional experience:
performance improvement, strategy development, startups, intrapreneurship, post-merger integration and cost reduction, due diligence, turn-arounds, PMO; 

 Industry experience: SMCG (domestic appliances, furniture, ceramic tiles), FMCG (cosmetics, juice, meat), retail (electronics, convenience shops, pharmaceuticals, DIY, vending, fashion, toys), B2B (aluminum system, plywood, alcohol, reagents, loading systems), services (MRO, consulting, outsourcing), foodtech, marketplaces

Countries: Poland, Serbia, Russia, Ukraine 

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Reviews

4.5

762 ratings on Udemy

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By Agness on 6/23/2026

Very insightful and practical course. The content is clear, easy to follow, and provides useful tools that can be applied immediately in real business situations. Highly recommended for anyone looking to make better data driven decisions

By Piero Ferrari on 6/22/2026

A very interesting and brilliant course. It really attracts your attention which makes you to come back again making studies fun and videos are the best part of it.

By Viorel Mirea on 1/4/2026

This is a very practical, hands-on course on how to actually do market research in the real world, especially if you don’t have a big budget or access to expensive tools. What I liked most is that it focuses much more on methods, examples, and concrete techniques (top-down / bottom-up sizing, competitor analysis, mystery shopping, online tools, etc.) rather than abstract theory. The instructor clearly brings a consulting mindset and shows how these analyses are used to draw real business conclusions. The course is best suited for analysts, startup founders, and business managers who want a structured toolkit they can apply immediately. Some parts could go a bit deeper into the Excel analysis and step-by-step calculations, but overall it delivers a very solid framework and many actionable ideas for validating markets, understanding competitors, and shaping business decisions. A strong and practical introduction to applied market research.

By Daniel Borysov on 6/15/2025

A very interesting and brilliant course. It really attracts your attention which makes you to come back again making studies fun and videos are the best part of it.

By Jacek Kluska on 2/16/2025

I really like this course so far. The lessons are organized, practical and clear. So far, I'm getting a lot of information provided by instructor.

By Charles on 6/1/2022

Highly structured and insightful in the first part of the course. The second part of the course could benefit by going into depth of how data in the excel analysis case studies

By Alexandre Brandt on 11/16/2018

A very hands-on course on how to actually conduct a cheap market research. Useful for a solo entrepreneur or a small business considering entering a market. Nice resources presented and how to use them quickly and efficiently. I didn't agree with the entire Bottom-up and Top-Down methodology presented in beginning. In theory it seems great but in practice, I think errors in estimation will be inevitably made at each step of the way in the calculations, leading to a result which can diverge largely from the reality.

By Nam Bui on 5/4/2018

The beginning lectures gave me idea on how to calculate the number of potential customers as well as potential revenue. However, if a more detail market research plan, sample data collection, and report were included, this course will provide more value to the learners.

By Tahsin Chowdhury on 1/19/2018

i certainly learned new information. I think that, due to audio editing, the articulation came out choppy. It made it difficult to keep up with Other than that the instructor is certainly knowledgeable and I do recommend this to those who want to learn more about the subject matter!

By Anesh Pillai on 8/20/2017

The Course is good, Work the $15 I paid. As Asen is not located in US or Canada, they is less information he can provide on the Government Statistic and source. But Netherless, Good Course.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100