10 truths about trends: Basic Rules of Business

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This slide share visually represents the 10 fundamental aspects of businesses that want to keep their feet in the market. Looking for growth? These are the basic rules that will polish your abilities to keep a track of trends in the market. However, it is evident that you need to know the people you are dealing with. Normally, business owners resist meeting their people in person. Whereas, they forget that interaction is a fruitful source of marketing your brand. Branding and Marketing are the tactics that needs the foreground of trends. While, the trends identification process demands understanding of your people and their ways of life. Your product must make room in your consumers’ life and that can only become possible if you know your people well. Most critical and crucial aspect of business branding is to know the difference between Fads and Trends. Fads come and go whereas, trends stay in the market. Once you are there! Go and move forward but keep a track of trends in the market. Market research is an old phenomenon. Today, people want to talk about latest happenings and futuristic aspects of marketing. Research will guide you about how things used to be but do you really have time for that? Just go to people directly observe what they do and how they do it - If you understand your people - Be sure that you have almost won the game. One thing that surely businesses should avoid is the act of staying within the market. Realize that your consumers are real people; they travel and explore new products as well as services. There is no point of you staying within the market, Go out! And look for global trends because your real competition lies there. You wish to identify global trends? The key is to live among your consumers, be one of your own consumers, and go party with them. Trends will become an easy job for you. However, there is one more thing that you missed – Trend is not about your consumer, but understanding consumerism. So identify the clusters that signal towards future directions.

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A New Flicker in the market is what we call

Trend

Appearance of a new expression, attitude or behavioral aspect – may be

human expectations generated because of profound need or want.

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Dissociate Fashion from Trends

Fads refrain from staying. However, trends emerge

and evolve

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Did you Just Say Market Research?

Are you kidding me?

It is traditional now! Market Research understands market backwards.

Whereas, trends are all about right-now and forward looking.

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You need to know – What

is NEW

Spot out the market for consumer novelty and scrutinize B2C

innovations

Congratulations! You just won the game

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Understand your Consumers

Oh Wait ….

There is one more thing that you missed – Trend

is not about your consumer, but understanding consumerism.

Identify the clusters that signal towards

future directions

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Well if you think you just won the game – Wait!

Trends aren’t the real point –the opportunities they hold is,

so keep a track and move forward.

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Your customers are real people

They adapt to global trends, so

you should do the same with a

strong consideration of

your local context.

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Consumers don’t stay within Industry, neither

should you

People travel around the industry and set demands accordingly, so what are you doing within the

industry? Go out, where your real competition exists.

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Trends emerge at the speed of light!

So forget about numbers or stats. Instead, go for

adaptation.

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Live among your consumers

Be one of your own consumers, go and hangout

with them. Trends will become an easy job for you.

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