Using Analysis To Understand Your Market
Your success in sales greatly depends on your market’s current saturation. Your customers will definitely be divided amongst your competitors and other similar factors.
For you to fully understand your market, try to answer these ten questions. They will guide you in your selling goals.
1. How many competitors exist in your market?
2. Which of them are new and which are already there for the longest time?
3. How many of them are bigger than your business?
4. How much do they affect your sales? Are you losing big profits because of them?
5. How do they price their products?
6. Are their products and/or services similar or different than yours? In what way?
7. What advertising tools do they use? To what extent are those used?
8. Are they selling to the same customer group as yours? Do you have
customer groups that they can’t sell to yet?
9. How do your customers buy? What motivates them?
10.Do your competitors employ a big number of salespeople? Do they use different selling techniques like door-to-door, retail outlet, telemarketing, direct mail, or business-to-business?
Once these questions are answered, you will not only be successful in
analyzing your customers. Using analysis You will know more about your competitors as well.
And with all these knowledge, you will be able to plan and select the best possible selling method. By doing so, you will soon become very successful in sales.





