Entrepreneurial Marketing: An effectual approachRoutledge, 29 apr 2014 - 162 pagina's How do you sell a totally new kind of product to a market that does not yet exist? Entrepreneurial businesses often create products and services based on radically new technology that has the power to change the marketplace. This means that existing market research will have produced data about market categories and structures that are largely irrelevant to the entrepreneur. This complicates the sales and marketing functions for new products that may be hard for the market to understand in the first place. Entrepreneurial Marketing focuses on this special challenge: new marketing methods for new products. Classic core marketing concepts, such as segmentation, positioning, and the marketing mix undergo an "extreme makeover" in the context of innovative products hitting the market. The author stresses effectuation, iterative thinking, principles of affordable loss, adjustment for emerging opportunities, and cooperation with first customers. This new textbook provides students of entrepreneurial marketing with everything they need to know to succeed in their classes as well as practical tools and techniques that will be useful after the exams have finished. |
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Identifying an application and market | |
Segmentation and positioning to maximise the value of | |
Adoption diffusion and understanding lead customers | |
Competitive and market considerations | |
The customer development process | |
Developing a marketing and sales programme | |
The sales side of customer development | |
Developing the new firms marketing and sales capabilities | |