Market Information
Market Information
Market Information
the entrepreneur will need to gather information on the industry and market. Most entrepreneurs
have difficulty with this stage and do not often know where to begin. The best way to start is to
first visualize this process as an inverted pyramid. This means that we start with very broad-
based data and information and work down until we can develop a positioning strategy and
quantifiable goals and objectives. All this information can then be used in the industry analysis
and marketing planning sections of the business plan that are discussed later in this chapter. We
begin the process by evaluating general environmental trends. This would include household
income trends, population shifts, food consumption habits and trends, travel, and employment
trends.