Developing, Managing, and Operating a Retail Business

Little Bee Retail Company
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When one enters into a new business or decides to open up a new business whether it is selling washing lines or washing machines, they need to study the target market and understand the customers’ needs in order to maximize the total sales. Entrepreneurs should understand the type of product they are selling, who they are selling to, why should they buy that product and what are they going to gain from the product or service they just bought. Because of such kind of questions, the following will help in identifying your target market.
1 An entrepreneur needs to understand the kind of problems is facing.
This should be the starting point for entrepreneurs, define the target market you proposing by understanding the kind of problems they are facing. Once you do, it will be easier and you will roughly have an idea what they are suffering from.
2 List all kinds of customers in your area.
Identify all types of customers in the area you what to open your business, after the identification, focus on the category of the business you acquired and correct all kinds of problems the customers to be are experiencing. Group the problems by area, net worth income of customers buying the products and market sector such as recruitment agents, producers and so on. Find more about the targeted customer such as their gender, what they like doing in their leisure time and where and how.
3 Study the market you have.
We live in a world of freedom where everybody is free to do any kind of activities, and at their own convenient time. For example, a customer can watch all the programs he love at his own time unlike before where one had to be there to watch a programs when it was being aired. Therefore, an entrepreneur can know the kind of market he will work with by studying the type of people involved such as high-income people, youth, women, racers and so on. The geographical location and how it affects the customers and the kind of market sectors that surround the business such producers, accountants, marketers and so on.
Consider pricing strategy as this affects the business greatly, the price for the products should be affordable and within the range with other same products in the market. Price affects the performance of the product in the market, if the company is operating in an area where there is another company of the same, the price should be slightly lower for you to attract customers and keep the previous customers. However lowering the price should only be for a short since doing it for long run will ruin the business.
Recruitment in organizations is a very costly approach; the recruitment team should be keen as the process faces various risks if wrongly exercised. For example, bad hire in departments such as account and finance may make a business lose a lot of money due to incompetency and unskilled personnel in the offices. Such cases negatively influence the business, costs business time and money consumed in hiring such individuals, affects them morale, as this is a newly relocated business to new environment. Since this is, a business that as just relocated fro...