Some Crunch Marketing Questions

Some initial questions for you:

1. What is the need that must be satisfied?
2. What are the products or services that will satisfy demand?
3. Who/what is the competition?
4. How are the need and the product best connected?

The fundamental question, then, is to write down your marketing vision. In other words:
Why... which customers... will choose us!

Write down:

• Your market position now, and in the future.
• Your customer position now and in the future.
• the effectiveness of communication; it will improve and help awareness.

Ask:

• Is the business/brand distinct? Is it continuing to demonstrate its difference?
• Is the business/brand proposition meaningful and right for the target audience?
• How highly do customers think of and feel about the business? What is their perception of its quality and of its 'momentum' – its growth in popularity?
• How many people know the business/brand and, more important, truly understand what it is about?

Checklist - Marketing meets business strategy
Decide what you want to do with the business:

• Make it grow?
• Keep it stable?
• Decrease its size?

How are you going to be different from the rest?

• By cost leadership (by being the cheapest with the lowest costs)?
• By being uniquely different (by finding your niche)?
• By concentration and focus (on a few key products or services)?

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