Stock Market's Online Survey

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September 1, 1998

In addition to having great images and an easy to use search engine The Stock

Market is offering an on-line Weekly Poll that should draw traffic and be

of tremendous interest to anyone in the business of producing, selling or using images.

TSM has developed a weekly survey question. Respondents get instant results so they

can see how they compare their experience with the rest of the people answering the

survey. The real bonus is that by answering one question you are allowed to review

the results on survey questions from previous weeks. To review the site and

participate in future surveys go to: www.stockmarketphoto.com

Because a single individual could easily stack the survey by responding several times

one should not put too much faith in the answers, but the answers after five weeks point to

some interesting and surprising trends. Some of the response rates were low toward the

end of August, but I would expect to see a real jump in activity as the fall buying

season kickes in.

One would also expect that most of the respondents are clients as opposed to

photographers and other stock agencies, but there is no easy to be sure. The

questions and answers are as follows:

How do you connect to the Internet?

(238 respondents)

( Note: Consider the number of users who have ISDN and T1 lines today. Consider how

much faster their searching will be with DSL lines or cable modems that will be

available to many of these users next year.)

What screen resolution are you using?

(248 respondents)

What is most important to you?

(211 respondents)

Have you ever purchased anything on-line using a credit card?

(146 respondents)

How do you most often hears about a new web site?

(114 respondents)