This paper highlights the importance of marketing information portals in a competitive and rough business environment. Every portal presented here can offer a large palette of latest news, accurate information, needed forecasts, analysis, reports, figures, or even unstructured data. The choice of every company can be difficult because the portals offers data from various business domains, the price depends on the amount or complexity of the necessary data and the specialized employees or the collaborators are well-trained. Moreover, the sites are friendly, and sometimes there is the possibility for the organizations to try a free trial. The companies, even if they are big corporations or small and medium enterprises, have now an extra-chance to survive on the market and even to be successful, due to these marketing information portals.

marketing information portals, data basis, marketing research, secondary data