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Marketing for New Ventures
Definition of marketing by the American Marketing Association:
an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stake holders.
Marketing practices vary depending on the type of company and the products and services it sells.
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Why Marketing is Critical for Entrepreneurs
Because no venture can become established and grow without a customer market;
Because it is difficult and expensive to bring new products and services to market;
To differentiate product or service to customers makes the company distinctive and valuable;
Companies must be able to switch marketing gears quickly to attract new customer segments.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Entrepreneurs Face Unique Marketing Challenges
limited resources in financial, managerial, and time;
limited market information;
decision-making inclined to be muddled by personal biases and beliefs;
poorly established relations with multiple audiences.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Acquiring Market InformationMarketing research could cover information such as:
-Product attributes important to customers;-Possibility of customers’ buying willingness by marketing behaviors;-Market trend;-The location of the customers’ preference.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Acquiring Market InformationTwo basic types of market data
•Primary data•Data you collect yourself•Limitations of primary data
•Secondary data•Economical and usually used to collect baseline information
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Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs
A company’s marketing strategy must closely align with its resources and capabilities;
Segmentation, targeting, and positioning are key marketing dimensions that set the strategic framework.
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Entrepreneurial MarketingMarketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs/the Marketing Mix
Product Product StrategyStrategy
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Pricing StrategyPricing Strategy
Entrepreneurial MarketingMarketing Skills for Managing Growth
Understanding and Listening to the Customer
Building brand awareness and building brand equity
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Disadvantages to existing companies entering new markets• Core rigidities: companies are only good at
things they are used to doing• Tyranny of the current market: companies
listen to their customers, who are not a source of ideas for new products in new markets
• Use myopia: customers of existing firms see needs or solutions very narrowly (i.e., not the needs of others)
Disadvantages to existing companies entering new markets• Because large companies have these
disadvantages with new markets, new ventures should focus on new markets instead of established ones
Market dynamics
• Entrepreneurs are more successful in large and growing markets– Large markets amortize the fixed costs of
getting started over a larger number of units– It’s easier to sell into rapidly growing markets
Market dynamics
• The performance of product adoption follows an S shape– Initially, need a large amount of effort to
achieve small improvements in product performance
– Then performance improvements accelerate and small efforts can lead to large improvements
– Later, must make large efforts to achieve small improvements
5 stages of technological adoption
Source: http://www.icsb.org/wiki/index.php?title=S_curve
5 stages of technological maturity1. Bleeding edge - shows high potential but hasn't
demonstrated its value or generated consensus.2. Leading edge - proven in marketplace but still new
enough that it may be difficult to find knowledgeable personnel to implement or support it.
3. State of the art - when everyone agrees that a particular technology is the right solution.
4. Dated - still useful, sometimes implemented; replacement leading edge is readily available.
5. Obsolete - superseded by state-of-the-art technology, maintained but no longer implemented by the specific firm.
Market dynamics
• Established firms rarely compete with entrepreneurs to develop new products on the early part of the S curve– The new product usually begins with inferior
performance that hurts the company’s overall performance
– Managers of established companies believe they can always improve the performance of their existing products to compete with new products
Entrepreneurial MarketingGuerilla Marketing
Guerilla marketing acts as non-traditional, grassroots, and captivating – that gain consumers’ attention and build awareness of the company.
Word-of-Mouth marketing, Buzz marketing, and Viral Marketing.
Other issues in Guerrilla Marketing.
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Guerrilla marketing
Selections from Francesco Mugnai’s “
Best Guerilla Marketing Ideas”
Use a different perspective
Useful plant life
Fitness
Good use of a parking garage
New type of golf bag
Improving men’s aim
Nikon thinks you rock
Shopping cart with
a message
Trueblood advertisin
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Barbeque breakdown
Kit Kat
Guerrilla marketing from an unexpected source
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOuF8oskRU