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Establishing the attractiveness or otherwise of a market, prior to entry is a vital step. Below are six facets of the market, with ‚negative‚ or unattractive characteristics ‚how does your market rate?

The best sales process is the willing customer buying process. The customers‚ buying process always has the following steps:

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is also known as on-line marketing. It is crucial to the success of any business to incorporate SEO into the design of their website and also to use it to promote their on line presence, their business, products and services.

Emma Smyth

BSc(Hons) MSc

Innovate NI

Managing Director & Marketer

www.innovateni.com

For many people, there is considerable confusion about what exactly marketing is about, what sales entails - and anyway are they really different? The answer is that they are. Here's how they both work and contribute differently to your firm's success with clients.

As a start up you need to develop a strategic perspective from the word go.

How Do You Define Success For Your Company?: Click the pic to the right

This  will guide you through some of the things you might want to consider when you develop your ideas.

Today you must do more than is required of you. Never think that you have done enough or that your job is finished. There's always something that can be done-something that can help to ensure victory.

It is not only about future trends and being aware. The pendulum swings between the action and reaction to trends.You need to decide what position your company is taking on the pendulum between the trend extremes, for example embracing technology versus embracing nature.

If you want to be in business for a long time, you need to develop a vision of the future and the place of your business in that future. You need not only to be aware of the trends in your market area (technology, competition, trade regulations, etc.) but also have a sense of the general direction in which the world is developing.

Publicity is one of the three most important marketing and sales tools an entrepreneur will use in the start-up and emerging stage of growth – personal selling and promotions (exhibitions in particular) being the other two.

The company name is the most important element of a brand personality and its visual distinction in the marketplace. The name provides a universal reference point through language and it is the one element of the brand personality that has to be got right and should never change thereafter.