The paper clarifies that taking a positive management decision to diversify marketing activity in the context of its key element (sales) is influenced by plenty of risks. Taking into account the above-mentioned, risks appearing in attracting new sale channels in marketing activity diversification have been analyzed; they have been grouped together according to areas of their appearing.
The level of the risks importance and probability of taking place have been estimated. It was found that ensuring the protection against several risk types revealed in the study will allow us to achieve a high level of minimization of all risk types; the potential ways of minimization or elimination of risk groups have been proposed.
The methods of decreasing probability of the fact that the risk will take place and risk prevention methods are analyzed in order to exclude risk negative impact in diversification of the marketing activity of small machine-building enterprise. The way of application of the “sum” method as one of the types of ABC –analyses is studied to distinguish the biggest threats during distributing channels diversification for small machine-building enterprise.