The importance of knowing your Strengths and Weaknesses

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Kim

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SWOT

Grow your business and dodge threats by writing a SWOT.

What it is

A SWOT Analysis helps you to discover your business’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses can be found internally, whereas opportunities and threats are external to your company.

How its helpful

Assessing your business’ strengths and weaknesses can help you to understand how your company is doing and how you could do better. Looking at your opportunities can help you to find a niche in the market and work out how to take hold of and break into that space. Whereas looking into your threats (competing companies etc.) can help you to work out where you may be weak and how you may need to change your business plan or marketing strategy to out-perform the competition.

How to write a SWOT analysis

You need to be fair but quite ruthless when writing a SWOT if it is to have any impact.

Here are some example questions you may need to ask to assess your business –

Strengths:

What advantages does your organization have?

What do you do better than anyone else?

What is your unique selling point?

What do people in your market see as your strengths?

Opportunities:

What good opportunities can you spot?

What interesting trends are you aware of?

Useful opportunities can come from:

Changes in technology and markets, changes in the economy, changes in population…

Weaknesses:

What should you avoid?

What could you improve?

What factors lose you sales?

What are people in your market likely to see as weaknesses?

Threats

What obstacles do you face?

What are your competitors doing?

Do you have bad debt or cash-flow problems?

Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your business?

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