Entrepreneurial Marketing: An Effectual Approach

Entrepreneurial Marketing: An Effectual Approach
ISBN-10
1317936590
ISBN-13
9781317936596
Series
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
162
Language
English
Published
2014-04-29
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Ed Nijssen

Description

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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