Sometimes the hardest part of starting your research is choosing a topic, especially if the topic is not assigned.

Choose a topic that interests you, something you'd like to know more about.
Trouble Thinking of a Topic?

You could start with a very broad topic, for example, marketing, but you would find way too much information on this subject -- enough to write several books!

The topic is too broad.

Instead, think of some aspect of the general subject of marketing that interests you, for example:

• Internet marketing
• Green marketing
• Marketing to special groups

Let's say that you are interested in marketing to special groups...