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Bs1 Revision Booklet

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BS1 REVISION BOOKLET
SECTION 1 WHAT IS BUSINESS
What Is a Business: A business or establishment that aims to fulfil a purpose;
• Make profits –producing high quality services and goods
• Increase brand image/reputation
• Try to survive against competitors
• Increase market share
• Good customer service
• Be environmentally sustainable

NEEDS - e.g to survive- shelter, water, food – PROBLEM: needs are limited
WANTS – e.g luxuries - such as cars, houses, phones - POSITIVE: unlimited

Businesses provide GOODS (tangible product) and SERVICES (intangible).
They provide them LOCALLY (e.g corner shop) or NATIONALLY (e.g Britsh Gas) or INTERNTIONALLY (e.g McDonalds)

Scarcity- When you have low amount of stock to meet …show more content…

• MARKET ORIENTATED APPROACH – When the business is more likely to succeed but it requires more extensive market research as they produce goods and services based on what consumers/customers want. POSITIVE: Meets demand of consumers
• ASSET LED APPROACH – Considers users wants but considers its own strengths and weaknesses before doing so. POSITIVE: They balance both what customer want and want they can satisfactionally provide – less risk of failing NEGATIVE: Limits product range as they can only make what theyre capable of.
What is Market Research? When you collect and identify data (qualitative data and quantiative) about customers, the market and competitors.
BENEFITS: -better decisions –reduce risk of failure NEGATIVES: -may be misleading data –some products still can fail
• PRIMARY RESEARCH (e.g questionnaires, surveys), SECONDARY RESEARCH (e.g Inside Business: sales records, stock records) (e.g Outside Business: gov stats, media)
• QUALATATIVE RESEARCH (about attitudes and beleifs), QUANTATIVE RESEARCH (measured in figures that can be measured)

What Is Market Segmentation? Market segmentation is a way of dividing the market into groups of consumers/customers which share similar features (Examples: -age –gender –lifestyle –income –geographical region ) After doing market research businesses can discover facts about customers.

POSITIVES: -get to know customers in depth (lifestyle,likes,dislikes)

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