Are the IBISWORLD reports useful to you?

August 14, 2020

by an admin from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management in New York, NY, USA

We would like to hear back from those of you who have used Searchfunder.com to access IBISWORLD industry reports.
Each IBISWORLD report typically costs around $900, but through our partnership, we can provide up to 3 per month to Searchers on the site. This benefit is only available to users categorized as searchers per our agreement with IBISWORLD.

How has the experience been?
What would you like to see?
Are there other services that you use which we can negotiate group discounts for on behalf of the entire community?

Comment below!

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Reply by a searcher
from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, USA

Thanks for soliciting feedback. I recently used the reports as a quick dive exercise into US senior living and found them very helpful. The formatting allowed for quick comparison between different sub-sectors. The content remained high-level and easily digestible which is important when evaluating multiple industries simultaneously. Another feature that I like was the relative lack of bias. Often reports provided by brokerages houses, major consultants and/or non-profit industry associations have an angle of selling up the good and downplaying the bad within their respective industry.

Recently listened to Search Funder session on "The Importance of Industry Information" and wondered where I could find the "questions to the owner in the report" Issac referenced around the 15:00 minute mark. Looking forward to the upcoming SoS sessions.

Reply by a searcher
in San Diego, CA, USA

I find them useful but wish the summaries of the report were bigger so we could decide if its a report we want, or that there were reports about each reports category. For example if there was a report that showed categories with highest expected growth, or most stable revenues, I might go through those to decide which industry reports to get. It would also be great if we had an idea of where data came from, when they say revenues have declined, how did they come upw ith that, is it just a sample of 5 companies on the market? do they have private data sources?

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