Target Market Research
Target market research provides companies with data that can help build a long-term post-entry competitive advantage. Market entry strategy consultants help with the following market research areas:
- Market Analysis: Market value analysis, including historical and projected growth and market development trends.
- Growth Factors: Identify growth factors like legislation processes, barriers to growth, and other restrictions that may emerge in the target market.
- Market Structures: Examine market structure components like stakeholders, incumbents, adjacent markets, and players in those markets.
- Business Environment: Evaluate regulatory, technological, social, and political factors within the target market.
Opportunity Analysis
Opportunity analysis uncovers information on what opportunities and threats await a new market entrant. Within this analysis, the market entry strategy consultant will address:
- Value Proposition Capabilities: Will the company’s core capabilities, like engineering, and support capabilities, like sales and marketing, ensure success in the new market?
- Market Size: How big is the potential target market, and what size of this market can be captured efficiently and cost-effectively?
- Competitive Landscape: Who are the incumbents, what is their capacity to respond to new entrants and are there other potential market entrants?
- Market Share Revenue Estimates: What are potential pricing and sales estimates, factoring in cost, and supply chain factors?
- Market Entry Cost Estimates: How much will the market entry cost in terms of inputs, distribution, and creating economies of scale?