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Finding Overseas Buyers - Is it Easier Now ? business activity.Perhaps the most daunting challenge any budding exporter faces is to find buyers for his/her products. Selling in international market has never been simple - with diverse language, geographical distance, cultural difference and lack of market knowledg Many businesses have sales fluctuations based on the weather but few companies include weather-predicting metrics into their staffing and inventory planning. They jus Features Are The Way NOT To Sell - Benefits Win Business A well known, national chain of restaurants discovered that certain weather patterns substantially impacts their business. They have studied it and found that more people go out to eat dinner when there is a series of beautiful days. So they measure the weather quality at their stores across the country. Managers report the weather quality daily. A weather predicting system is then employed to determine the quality of subsequent days. When the model predicts a higher customer count they reduce or eliminate sale items and include higher priced or higher margin specials on the changing daily menu. While they can’t control the weather, they know that their customers respond to it. Knowing that, they work to take advantage of factors that can predict changes in business activity.Customers don't buy features - they buy BENEFITS. A FEATURE is something the product has, or a function it performs. A BENEFIT is what it does for the customer.Customers buy BENEFITS – so try to to SELL them, because it's BENEFITS that justify e Many businesses have sales fluctuations based on the weather but few companies include weather-predicting metrics into their staffing and inventory planning. They just Most Valuable Asset when there is a series of beautiful days. So they measure the weather quality at their stores across the country. Managers report the weather quality daily. 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