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Product Marketing: Meeting the Needs of Your Customers

Think you’ve got a revolutionary product idea? Unless you understand your target customers’ fundamental needs and wants, even the best idea won’t get off the ground. By identifying factors that motivate your customers’ behaviors, you can position your product so that it meets their needs. In this course, you’ll learn what drives customers in your target market, and how to use this information to capitalize on the best market opportunities.

Spark new product ideas with frameworks for brainstorming and ideation
Apply segmentation techniques to identify your prospective customers and their needs
Position your product so it has economic and psychological value
Identify which marketing tactics hold the most strategic growth opportunity

Course Outline

Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning, and Marketing Opportunities Learn methods for effectively segmenting customer needs. Examine case studies that demonstrate the practical application of these concepts in the real world.	Sources of Value Learn the three sources of product value - functional, economic, and brand/psychological. See how the Accord Framework is used to enhance a product's value proposition.
New Product Strategy & The Bugaboo Case Learn how to develop new product ideas. Apply templates for new product strategy, including ideation, subtraction, task unification, division, and multiplication.