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For Success-Six Essential Questions That Every Businessperson

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Inexperienced business operators go into new markets without

having the information they need to be successful.

Because they don't know the answers to the 6 Essential Questions

That Every Businessperson Must Ask, they often fail. The

difference between success and failure is rarely one wrong

decision. Instead, it is a series of wrong decisions made by

people who do not have the essential information needed to make

the right ones.

You can greatly increase your chances of making the right

decisions IF you know the answer to these 6 questions:

(1) What is the demand for your product or service?

When you know how many Internet searches are made every

day, week, month and year for your product or service, you can

estimate how much demand there is for what you are selling. More

demand = increased chances of success.

(2) What is

the available supply of your product or service?

When you know how many businesses are already selling you

product or service you can accurately estimate whether or not

there is room in the market for your offering.

(3)

Who are your Competitors?

It's not enough to

simply know what the supply (number of competitors) is, it's

also essential that you know who your competitors are. For

example, can you see the benefit of knowing you're considering

entering a market owned by Fortune 500 companies that spend

millions of dollars per year on advertising alone? What if you

found out that your biggest potential competitor is a non-profit

that gives away your product or service for free?

(4)What is the best pricing model for your product or service?

Determining price elasticity is a critical

component of any new product or service launch. When you know

the highest and lowest available prices for your product or

service, you are in a better position to determine a price that

will spur sales and generate a fair profit.

(5) How

are your competitors promoting?

What competitors

say in their advertising and marketing campaigns can provide you

with critical insight to their product or service offerings.

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When you know what words and phrases they are targeting for

Pay-Per-Click ads and where they are spending other advertising

money, you are in a better position to meet them head-on in the

territories they are already defending and to discover new

territories that have escaped their attention.

(6)

What is the market "buzz" for you product or service?

Successful companies like Amazon, CompUSA, Dell and even

Microsoft would never launch a new product or service without

conducting a thorough online market analysis and neither should

you.

A market analysis report helps you to identify

the niche markets that are ripe for your product or service. You

can greatly increase your chances of success if you target the

right people at the right time.

About the author:

Abul Kashem CEO,

webMarketReports.com- the premier provider of customized web

market research data for new and existing Internet business

operators