Business Collocations

What is a collocation? It’s, two words that are commonly used together and therefore sound natural; such as do and business.

Our company does business in the Far East.
I'm going to give you ten words, see if you can think of any collocations for them:

1. Business
2. Sales
3. Customer
4. Target
5. Market
6. Brand
7. Money
8. Product
9. Highly
10. Commercially

Now read the following text and see how we can use them.

In order to make money in business you should have a good business plan. Firstly, you need to identify your target market and use your product knowledge to sell it. The product must be commercially viable to make a profit. In order to gain market share and increase sales figures, your product should be highly competitive. Once you have done all this you need customer satisfaction because this leads to brand loyalty, which is what all companies would love to achieve.

Other collocations with the above words are:

1. Business opportunity
2. Sales representative
3. Customer services
4. Target audience
5. Market leader
6. Own brand
7. Lose money
8. Product range
9. Highly motivated
10. Commercially successful

I'll write a follow-up blog giving you more examples of these collocations in use soon.