Market Information

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To build a strong marketing plan with reasonable and measurable market goals and objectives,

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.

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