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Entrepreneurship: How To Leverage Trends To Grow Your Business

Elsie Ndonga by Elsie Ndonga
15 May 2019
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When running a business, it is important to keep an eye out for opportunities that may grow your business. Finding something that might be a game changer for your business could happen at any time. You need to be smart about it. You need to evaluate each opportunity and decide how you can best use to boost your business. Trends are a great way to grow your business. They can help you determine customer needs or help you analyze your business performance.  So how do you use trends to grow your business?

Identify and analyze your trends carefully

Not all trends need to be exploited. Selecting which trends you hitch your business to is a big part of the process. Poorly chosen trends can end up doing more harm to your brand and business as opposed to simply not using it. Choosing the right trends for your business involves understanding the market you are working in. This includes analysis of research to understand what people need.

Create content around the trend

Trends come and go quickly so you need to be proactive about them. They also tend to be very specific. Your marketing strategy should include creating consumable content based on the trend. Use it to help you sell your product or service. Get creative with your advertisements. Use humour to capture people’s attention. This is particularly helpful when exploiting social media trends. A catchy advertisement can even go viral which does a lot for brand awareness.

Look into influencer marketing

Influencer marketing is a new but fast-growing option to market your products to people. More brands are looking to work with influencers to grow their businesses. Associating with influencers who mirror your brand’s values is a great way to relate to consumers. It also provides you with the opportunity to grow brand trust quicker compared to using traditional advertisement methods.

Use trends to get market data

Some companies turn to focus groups whenever they want to get information about their market. This gives a business owner personal data based on real people’s feelings and perceptions which is great for product and service development. Monitoring trends is a great way to collect consumer data without spending too much time or money. Studying current trends can help you understand what consumers feel about certain products or services. Watch people’s responses and reactions. It is a large pool of information and can come in handy even later in the course of running your business.

Discover an overlooked niche

One great way of growing your business is to find various ways to effectively cater to consumer needs. Following trends gives you insight into the consumer’s mind. If you are keen, you can find an unexploited business opportunity and turn it into a profitable exploit. Since niche businesses are demand based and require more focused marketing, trends offer the right consumer information. Niche business often caters to smaller well-defined markets. Delving into a niche is a great idea, especially for a business owner looking to branch out and try new things.

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