Data from BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor, Wave 16 (Q3 2012) survey of SMBs (small medium businesses) on their marketing and advertising behaviors. The LCM survey tracks SMB ad and marketing spending, Web footprint, media performance assessments, and opinions about key topics like emerging media and sales channels.
1st bullet – should we define “Core sample” more clearly?
Steve, again this is basically consistent, given margin of error, right? No real trend here?
We should add a guide to assessing statistical significance. For example: “Results based on 300 responses have a confidence interval of +/- 5.7% at the 95% confidence level.”