Chapter 4

Finding Your Target Market

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Taking stock of the target market

Bullet Picking the right industry

Bullet Getting the niche right

Bullet Gauging the most attractive customers

Bullet Choosing the best spot on the industry value chain

The most important step toward creating a great business is creating a product or service that customers want and will buy. This is called a powerful offering. The first step in creating a powerful offering is selecting the right market. Picking the proper combination of industry attractiveness, niche attractiveness, and customer attractiveness creates the best market for your product.

Remember By combining industry attractiveness, niche attractiveness, and customer attractiveness, you can understand the overall market potential. This chapter refers to this combination as the market attractiveness from this point forward. Market attractiveness is one of the most important ...

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