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Adoption Rate

• The speed at which a new product is adopted is influenced by factors like perceived benefits, pricing, usability, promotional effectiveness, distribution reach, switching costs, learning curve, and the ability to try before buying.

Market Research and Segmentation

• Market Segmentation involves dividing the entire customer base into distinct groups based on needs, desires, purchasing power, preferences, and other differentiating characteristics.
• Segmentation helps identify niche markets.
• Data used for segmentation:
  • Geographic data (location)
  • Demographic data (age, income, gender, address, marital status, family status, occupation, ethnicity, religion, nationality)
  • Psychographic data (social class, lifestyle, personality)

Creating Value

• Key steps for building customer value:
  • Define your market approach.
  • Identify a niche you can dominate.
  • Identify the intangible benefits (like quality and utility) you offer, considering what customers are willing to pay.
• For startups:
  • Building brand awareness is crucial.
  • Reaching target customers to drive quick sales is crucial.
• Measuring brand strategy effectiveness:
  • Ask customers how they learned about your company/product/service.
  • Track the performance of specific marketing efforts (advertising and promotion) to analyze results.

Promotion Strategies

• Don't rely on the product selling itself.
• Use various advertising and marketing methods:
  • Traditional (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV)
  • Trade Shows
  • Direct Personal Selling (most effective but expensive)
  • Targeted Online Marketing Ads
  • Social Media
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (optimize site with relevant keywords to increase visibility)
• Don't underestimate the cost of marketing.
• Customer referrals are valuable but cannot be relied upon solely.

Strengthening Your Presentation

• Communicate your message clearly.
• Use data and numbers to illustrate points effectively.
• Focus initial efforts on Innovators and Early Adopters, as they are the initial market segments.
• Optimize marketing strategies to get the most out of a limited budget.

Marketing Strategy

• Marketing includes all strategies, tactics, and techniques to:
  • Raise customer awareness.
  • Promote a brand, product, service, or business.
  • Build and manage long-term customer relationships.
• The "5 Ps" of marketing:
  • People (customers)
  • Product (what is offered)
  • Price (what the customer is willing to pay)
  • Place (the channel customers find it)
  • Promotion (strategies for awareness and reach)
  • Costly marketing strategies that rely heavily on advertising and promotion are often ineffective for entrepreneurs with limited resources.

Customer Experience

• Experiences now influence 66% of customer decisions (the other 33% often influenced by price).
• Consumers have high expectations in these areas:
  • They want easy access to information and services anytime and anywhere.
  • They want to be able to explore new information and technologies in innovative ways.
  • They expect personalized experiences tailored to their specific needs.
  • They expect seamless interactions with no learning curve.
• Marketing must consider all customer touchpoints.

New Product Adoption/Diffusion Curve

• The Adoption Curve shows how a product's adoption progresses over time, divided into stages (Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, Laggards).

Crossing the Chasm

• "Crossing the chasm" refers to the period when early adopters have been saturated and sales plateau, requiring strategies to reach the broader market (Early Majority and Late Majority) to achieve widespread adoption.