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In your attempt to start up a business, you have to make a clear business description. Your business description will be information about your current and future business viewpoint including the business structure, business location, classification of business, owner information, and profit figure. You have to state your company profile clearly and products or services your company able to provide. All information must be based on real facts so that any prospective investors can use the business description as primary source of information.

In making a business description, you will need to provide clear company profile. Make all information in order so that people can easily read and understand what you present. Information about products and services you provide should include the uniqueness of your products or services and how they are different from other competitors. Highlight any features that cannot be found at competitors’ products. List the strong points of your products and benefits customers will receive if they use your products.

Further, it is important for you to explain additional services you could provide. If you are going to provide training on how to use the products, you should inform it as additional benefits. In short, let prospective customers or potential investors know the distinctive features, benefits and additional services of your products or services.

People set up a company because they want to gain profit as much as they can. To gain profits they have to sell their products to the customer. Unfortunately, there are many other companies that are also produced and sold the same products. This situation makes a tight competition between among those companies. To win the competition and gain profits as much as possible, you need to have good marketing strategies. This is the main reason why you should include market strategies in your business plan.

Knowing the market will be your main weapon in selling your products. The best marketing strategy can be achieved if you can know and understand your target audience and also find your competitors’ strengths and weaknesses. By knowing your market demands, you can modify your products to meet their needs. By doing so, you can have the biggest customers share. Knowing you competitors’ weaknesses and strengths are also important because you can improve your products based on this information

You can plan your marketing strategy by looking at those aspects and you can be the winner in the competition.
You can also strategize a marketing plan by planning the right media to advertise your products. The right media will guarantee that your advertisement will be received by the intended customers

As an element of a business plan, competitive analysis must be clearly stated. It should consist of strategy of the business and strategy to face business competitors. By stating competitive analysis, you will be able to know the strong and weak points of your competitor so that you will be able to make the best strategy to win the competition. Using the competitive analysis, you will be able to change any limitation to be your strengths that can be used for preventing your competitors to enter your market.

In order to make a clear competitive analysis, you will need to identify your competitors. Basically, you can group your competitors based on two things, customers’ point of view and strategies your competitors use. Then, you should analyze their strengths and weaknesses in order to know their position in the market. Knowing such information will enable you to determine what the right strategy is. This information will help you to make effective marketing campaign by highlighting any assets your competitors don’t have.

There are many ways to make competitive analysis and one of them is by making a grid showing the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors. Through the grid, you will easily find out what factors you should highlight, develop and improve. Therefore, to set a distinct business strategy, competitive analysis is highly recommended.