Spotting A Business Opportunity Flashcards
Main customer needs a business must consider
Price
Quality
Choice
Convenience
Convenience
A product or service’s ability to fit in well with a customer’s lifestyle or routine, the ease with which it can be use and/or its easy-to-reach
Price - customer needs
Businesses find that lowering their prices will increase their sales
Value can change depending on circumstance for example weather
Quality - customer need
A customer assesses a products quality based not only on the amount that they spend but also their expectations of the product and whether the product meets its customers’ expectations
Customer service
Choice - customer need
Customers like to have a choice because different customers have different tastes and needs
Price - Example of meeting customer need
Offering products at a competitive price
Quality - Example of meeting customer need
Training and encouraging staff to provide a very friendly an helpful service
Choice - Example of meeting customer need
Keeping a wide variety of products in stock for customers to choose between
Convenience - Example of meeting customer need
Offering same-day or next-day delivery
What needs and behaviours do customers make buying decisions based on ?
Family needs
Financial needs
Emotional needs
Brand loyalty
Viable
Able to work properly or successfully
Primary research
New research that is carried out to answer specific issues and questions
What does primary research usually involve?
Questionnaires
Focus groups
Interviews
Observations
Ways a survey could be conducted
Online, using online questionnaires and online focus groups
In person or face-to-face, using interviews and focus groups
Over the telephone or through the post
Questionnaire
A set of questions with a choice of answers
Focus group
A group of people who discuss their views on a product, service, advertisement or idea, either face-to-face or online
Target market
A particular group of consumers at which a business aims its products and services
Sample
A portion of the population asked for their opinions in order to draw conclusions about the behaviour of the whole population
Interviews
Can be conducted by telephone, face - to face or online.
Observations
Means watching how customers behave naturally, when they do not think they are being watched.
Examples of situations in which observation could be used include
Understanding people’s reactions to different packaging designs
Measuring how long it take someone to make a purchase decision in a shop
Understanding how people actually use a product and whether they encounter and whether they encounter ay problems