Marketing & Sales¶
2 Success Strategies¶
- Cost Leader: Aggressively cut costs
- Innovator
IDK¶
- Identify your customers correctly
- “Product for everyone” isn’t for anyone
- Perform market segmentation
- Identify your segments of customers to target
- Some customers won’t be interested even with the best of marketing
- Survey your customers
- Understand your consumer’s behaviors
- Sell the benefits, not the product
- Leverage influencers (educators, doctors, etc)
- Use networking effect
Lean Methodology¶
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Develop Idea
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Identify unmet needs in market
- Interview potential consumers, influencers, retailers
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Focus on one unmet need
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MVP
Goal: Identify consumers for launch
- Efficacy first
- Minimal packaging
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Minimal attention to fancy features
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Create customers
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Branding, packaging
- Go to market
- Ramp up hiring & spending
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Confirm: re-orders
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Grow company
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Build staff
- Become profitable & self-sustaining
- Position for acquisition