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Obstacle identification worksheet

From Roger C. Parker's Guide to Web Content and Design
Section 3, Chapter 7
Page 112

Purpose
Identifying the obstacles that stand in the way of attaining your goals will help you develop the content necessary to convince visitors to support your goals or purchase your products and services.

1

What are some of the possible reasons you don't sell more products or services? 

___Potential buyers don't understand the benefits your product or services 

___Your market is not aware that you offer the product or service 

___Your market is buying the product or service from others, knowing that you are in business

___Other (describe below)

 

2

What about price?

___Price is not a significant factor 

___Your market perceives you as more expensive than the others 

___Others are selling your product or service significantly cheaper-and your market is letting you know about it

 

3

Who is your competition-i.e., who do you lose sales to? Describe in detail, in order of importance 

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4

Does your competition have a Web site? 

What's it like? (Describe below.) 

 

What do you think are its short-term and long-term goals? (describe)

 

5

What are some of the ways you differ from the competition? 

___Product knowledge 

___Training 

___Years in business 

___Location 

___Service

___Extended warranties 

___History of customer satisfaction 

___Other (describe below)

 

6

How often do you lose sales (that you know about)?  

___Never 

___Sometimes ( 10 to 20 percent of the time) 

___Frequently ( over 75 percent of the time)

 

7

What are some of the reasons lost prospects give you after you find they have bought elsewhere? (Describe below:  

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