Archive for March, 2011

The Marketing Component: Product Definition

In the early stages of development, one of the most important efforts is defining what the product does, as well as what it doesn’t do. In other words balancing the trade-offs. Complicating this is the dimension of time. You’re defining the product a year or more in advance, trying to accurately estimate market needs and [...]

Add Some Value: In Practice

Only offer added value that your target customers will appreciate. Segnala presso:

Die Marketing-Komponente

Die Grundlage einer guten Marketing beginnt mit Respekt für den Kunden. Die Rolle des Marketings ist es, dazu beitragen, dass ein Produkt im Markt erfolgreich zu sein und realisieren den Verkauf Potenzial durch eine Vielzahl von Aktivitäten. Dazu gehören Beeinflussung der Produkt -Design, die Positionierung der Produkt-und Firmennamen nach außen, der Marktforschung, die Förderung des [...]

The Marketing Component

The foundation of good marketing begins with respect for the customer. The role of marketing is to help make a product succeed in the marketplace and realize its sale potential by using a variety of activities. These include influencing the product’s design, positioning the product and company to the outside, conducting market research, promoting the [...]

Add Some Value: The Idea

When Peter Boizot founded PizzaExpress in 1965, pizza was virtually unheard of outside Italy: there were no pizzerias at all in London. Early on, Boizot latched on to the idea of providing something extra-he started by having live jazz bands performing in the restaurants (many well-known jazz musicians got their start by playing at PizzaExpress [...]

Add Some Value

Whatever business you are in, there is a strong likelihood that you have competitors who offer something similar-and it is a racing certainty that there are alternative solutions out there for customers’ problems, as seen from the customer’s viewpoint. For instance, someone in the restaurant business might feel complacent because there are no other restaurants [...]

Find the Key Account: In Practice

Make sure you have identified the real key account. Segnala presso:

Find the Key Account: The Idea

In 1868, George Westinghouse invented the air brake. This was an important development, because railroads were spreading throughout America and indeed the rest of the world. Railroad trains are easy to start, but difficult to stop-if the braking only happens at the locomotive end of the train, the carriages will derail, and (for a long [...]