How to get customers to adopt the new, the novel, the cutting edge.

Lets face it, we crave the new. And we are at a point in time in our society where new ideas and products are brought to market faster than ever. Across the globe, there are more patents filed, resulting in more stuff in our homes than ever before.
Marketers are increasingly asked to not just expand share of existing products and services, but to launch and drive adoption of the new, the novel, the cutting edge.
How can a great marketer cope? What are the activities you should undertake to launch a new product or initiative successfully?
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• Define your product
• Identify your target customers
• Assess your competitor's positioning

Every Successful Product Launch Starts with Defining your Customer

Defining your audience - although seemingly obvious to any good marketer - can be a challenging step for many teams launching a new product or service. It can be especially challenging at Visa, where our products and services ultimately need to appeal to billions of consumers, millions of merchants and thousands of financial, technology, and service partners across our global ecosystem. When the world is your oyster, everyone is a potential customer.

Customer definition is challenging — but it's vital to growth.

When product teams first engage with sales, business development, marketing and/or communications teams, it is quite common that there is a lack of definition and clarity in regards to who a particular product or offering is for. Creating and building a new product is very challenging, and the competitive realities to launch products as fast as possible often result in opportunistic rather than strategic customer acquisition efforts.

As articulated in the Granularity of Growth, “[companies] must either grow or go”, and launching new products and services is critical to find and identify new sources of revenue. To “invest in markets you don’t currently serve”, Viguerie, Smit and Baghai recommend identifying new growth segments “in terms of product categories, consumer segments, geographic markets, or some other dimension.” One of the defining themes in the Granularity of Growth is "the finer the granularity of the analysis, the better the insights for informing the growth direction will be."

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