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The Expert Guide to Creating a Marketing Growth Strategy

ConversionXL

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. A more aggressive promotion or advertising strategy can help your brand reach a larger group of your target customers. Product development. Image source. Revisiting pricing strategy.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

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This plan is your go-to-market (GtM) strategy , which should be informed by: Market conditions and competitive positioning Ideal customers and target audience Product offer and pricing Lead generation and customer acquisition process. How a product launch strategy creates awareness and earns consideration from potential buyers.

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How We Took on Slack (and Lived to Tell About It)

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We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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How We Took on Slack (and Lived to Tell About It)

ConversionXL

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

Ryan Holiday , Author of The Obstacle Is The Way : “At the core, marketing is lead generation. PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. And you need to understand the potential impact of product-economic fit so that you can be better prepared for it.”. Step 1: Product Development. Conclusion.