BRIANTRACY
BUSINESS BUILDING
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36 | NOV/DEC 2011
Opportunity gap analysis is a good exercise to expand your mind and your business for your product or service. With opportunity gap analysis, you use your creativity to find different ways to move more of your product or service to more customers.
HERE ARE 10 QUESTIONS YOU CAN ASK TO FIND NEWER OR BETTER WAYS TO DISTRIBUTE YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICES:
What other ways could you sell your product? Simply taking a product that is being sold one way and selling it in a different way can be all that it takes to start a successful business, or turn around an existing one.
What additional customers are there for this product? Where are these additional customers? Who are these additional customers? Finding a new customer base for an existing product can be the key to making your business successful.
How could you modify or change your existing products or services to make them more attractive to your customers? How could you change the packaging? Change the functions? Change the features? Increase the size or reduce the complexity? Decrease the size or simplify the product? Continually look for ways to offer your product or service in such a way that it is more appealing to the same or to a different customer group.
opportunity gap analysis
What noncustomers could you develop for this product?
Who can you think of who could use, benefit from, and afford this product, who is not buying from anyone at present? What customer groups are not using this product at all at this time? How could you appeal to these people?
What new products do your customers want?
If you have an existing customer base, what else do your customers need that you are not yet supplying to them? What else can you produce that your customers can use in conjunction with what you are already selling them?
What additional methods of distribution exist for your product? How else could you get your product to your customers? Think of the different ways listed earlier. Which of them could work for you?
What additional products could you distribute through your existing marketing channels? If you already have distribution channels- retail, direct selling, or direct mail- what other products could you offer that you could sell using the same channels to the same customers?
Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, and President of Brian Tracy University, a private on-line University for Sales and Entrepreneurship. He can be reached at
www.briantracy.com,
www.briantracyu.com or 858.481.2977.
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