The document discusses various topics for starting a successful business such as finding value in your product or service, innovation, developing a unique selling proposition, generating business ideas by examining customer needs and available resources, branding to differentiate your business, and conducting a SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It provides tips for each topic like focusing on customer empathy, identifying what drives customer purchases, and being realistic when assessing your business's SWOT.
The document discusses various topics for starting a successful business such as finding value in your product or service, innovation, developing a unique selling proposition, generating business ideas by examining customer needs and available resources, branding to differentiate your business, and conducting a SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It provides tips for each topic like focusing on customer empathy, identifying what drives customer purchases, and being realistic when assessing your business's SWOT.
The document discusses various topics for starting a successful business such as finding value in your product or service, innovation, developing a unique selling proposition, generating business ideas by examining customer needs and available resources, branding to differentiate your business, and conducting a SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It provides tips for each topic like focusing on customer empathy, identifying what drives customer purchases, and being realistic when assessing your business's SWOT.
The document discusses various topics for starting a successful business such as finding value in your product or service, innovation, developing a unique selling proposition, generating business ideas by examining customer needs and available resources, branding to differentiate your business, and conducting a SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It provides tips for each topic like focusing on customer empathy, identifying what drives customer purchases, and being realistic when assessing your business's SWOT.
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COMPUTER 10
ENGR. JULIE ANN CORTEZ
FINDING VALUE • People buy for a reason. There should be something in your product or service that would give consumers a good reason to go back and buy more. • There must be something that will make you the best option for target customers; otherwise, they have no reason to buy what you are selling. INNOVATION • Innovation is the introduction of something new in your product or service. • This may be a new idea, a new method, or a new device. UNIQUER SELLING PROPOSITION (USP) • Unique Selling Proposition is the factor or consideration presented by a seller as the reason that one product or service is different from and better than that of the competition. Here's how to discover your USP and how to use it to increase your sales and profit: • USE EMPHATHY : Put yourself in the shoes of your customers. Always focus on the needs of the target customers and forget falling in love with your own product or service. Here's how to discover your USP and how to use it to increase your sales and profit: • IDENTIFY CUSTOMER’S DESIGN: It is very important for you to understand and find out what drives and motivates your customers to buy your product or service. Here's how to discover your USP and how to use it to increase your sales and profit: • DISCOVER CUSTOMER’S GENUINE REASONS FOR BUYING THE PRODUCT: Information is very important in decision making. A competitive entrepreneur always improve their products or services to provide satisfaction and of course retention of customers. GENERATING IDEAS FOR BUSINESS GENERATING IDEAS FOR BUSINESS • The process of developing and generating a business idea is not a simple process. Some people come up with a bunch of business ideas that are not really feasible. Here are some basic yet very important considerations that can be used to generate possible ideas for business:
• Examine existing goods and services:
There are many ways of improving a product from the way it is made to the way it is packed and sold.
You can also improve the materials used in crafting the
product. Here are some basic yet very important considerations that can be used to generate possible ideas for business:
• Examine the present and future needs:
Look and listen to what the customers, institutions, and communities are missing in terms of goods and services. Sometimes, these needs are already obvious and identified right away. Here are some basic yet very important considerations that can be used to generate possible ideas for business:
• Examine how the needs are being satisfied:
Needs for the products and services are referred to as market demand.
To satisfy these needs is to supply the products and
services that meet the demands of the market. Here are some basic yet very important considerations that can be used to generate possible ideas for business:
• Examine the available resources:
Observe what materials or skills are available in abundance in your area.
A business can be started out of available raw materials
by selling them in raw form and by processing and manufacturing them into finished products. Here are some basic yet very important considerations that can be used to generate possible ideas for business:
• Read magazines, news articles, and other
publications on new products and techniques or advances in technology: You can pick up new business ideas from magazines such as Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, Business Magazines, “Go Negosyo”, Know About Business (KAB) materials, and Small-Industry Journal. Key Concepts of Selecting a Business Idea • Once you have identified business opportunities, you will eventually see that there are many possibilities available for you. It is very unlikely that you will have enough resources to pursue all of them at once. In screening your ideas, examine each one in terms of the following guide questions:
1. How much capital is needed to put up the business?
2. Where should the business be located? 3. How big is the demand for the product? Do many people need this product and will continue to need it for a long time? 4. How is the demand met? Who are processing the products to meet the needs (competition or demand)? How much of the need is now being met (supply)? In screening your ideas, examine each one in terms of the following guide questions:
5. Do you have the background and experiences
needed to run this particular business? 6. Will the business be legal and not against any existing or foreseeable government regulation? 7. Is the business in line with your interest and expertise? BRANDING • Branding is a marketing practice of creating a name, a symbol or design that identifies and differentiates product or services from the rest. It is also a promise to your customers. A GOOD PRODUCT CAN :
• Deliver message clearly,
• Confirm credibility, • Connect to target prospect, • Motivate buyers, and • Concretize user loyalty. Here are simple tips to publicize your brand:
• Develop a tagline. Write a statement that is
meaningful, impressive, and easy to remember to capture the essence of your brand.
• Design a logo. Create a logo symbolic of your
business and consistent with your tagline and displace it strategically. Here are simple tips to publicize your brand:
• Write a brand message. Select a key message to
communicate about your brand.
• Sustain a brand quality. Deliver a promise of quality
through your brand.
• Practice consistency. Be reliable and consistent to what
your brand means in your business. In generating a business idea, you should first identify the type of business suited to your business idea. You should analyze and scan the potential environment, study the marketing practices and strategies of your competitors, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in your environment to ensure that the products or services you are planning to offer will be patronized and within easy reach of target consumers. How to conduct SWOT Analysis • Be realistic about the strengths and weaknesses of your business when conducting SWOT Analysis.
• SWOT Analysis should distinguish between where your
business is today, and where it can be in the future.
• SWOT Analysis should always be specific. Avoid any gray
areas. • Always apply SWOT Analysis in relation to your • competition, i.e. better than or worse than your competition.
• Keep your SWOT Analysis short and simple. Avoid complexity