5. WAYS TO PROVE IT
• Find a similar company • Find a growing industry
that has been successful • Find an industry without
• Find a new trend much competition
• Find a niche in a larger • Find an industry with
market weak competition
• Find where the customer • Find a new market for an
is existing product
• Find an article about an • Find areas where the
emerging business industry is not serving
practice • Create a completely new
• Show that people are market by combining
invested in the industry markets
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6. PROVING IT
The primary elements involve:
• understanding how the industry operates
• what influences it internally: the market
• what influences it externally: the
consumers
• under
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7. TYPES OF INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
Porter's 5 Forces
PEST/PESTLE Analysis
Value Chain Analysis
Four Corners Model
Blindspots Analysis
Financial Ratio Analysis
...and many more.
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9. UNDERSTANDING THE MARKET
• Where are consumers spending
their money?
• What is influencing their
behavior?
• Do they have preferences?
• Are there buying habit trends?
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16. ACTIVITY (10 MINUTES)
1. Go to MarketResearch.com Academic,
IBISWorld, Mintel or Frost and Sullivan
2. Search for some markets that might fit
your company or similar companies
3. Save what you find to your desktop.
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17. A NOTE ON CLASSIFICATION
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18. A NOTE ON CLASSIFICATION
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19. A NOTE ON CLASSIFICATION
What genre does this person’s music belong
in?
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20. A NOTE ON CLASSIFICATION
NAICS
SIC
Change over Time
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21. COMPETITORS & SUPPLIERS
What are competitors doing?
Are there geographic factors to
consider?
What technology is having an
impact?
What are competitors who will buy
from you?
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22. COMPETITORS & SUPPLIERS
What are your competitors doing?
What are their
profits?
Are there geographic factors to consider?
What technology is having an impact?
Who are your suppliers?
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23. COMPETITORS & SUPPLIERS
Company Research
-Company websites
-ReferenceUSA
-LexisNexis
Company Dossier
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26. COMPETITORS & SUPPLIERS
• Company websites
• ReferenceUSA
• LexisNexis Company Dossier
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27. ACTIVITY (10 MINUTES)
1. Go to Bizminer, ThomasNet or
Search for some markets that might
fit your company
2. If those don’t fit, try typing in some
competitors into Reference USA or
LexisNexis Company Dossier
3. Save what you find to your desktop.
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28. FIND OUT MORE
Ilana Barnes We chat.
ibarnes@purdue.edu We email.
(764) 494-6243 We answer phones.
We’re here for you.
Parrish Library
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Notas do Editor
Let’s say you are going to make an app for soccer players. How big is that market? What are the segments of the market?
My point being that business classification is complicated.
My point being that business classification is complicated.
My point being that business classification is complicated.
My point being that business classification is complicated.