Website Elements for a Successful Product Launch
10 Ways to Untangle Your Product Launch: Part I
Most product launches fail.
According to the Harvard Business Review, only 3% of new consumer packaged goods exceed the benchmarks set for a successful launch. Lack of a successful launch strategy for a technology company can reduce your profitability by as much as 35%.
From an outbound or downstream marketing perspective, the biggest problem with a new product launch is education (sometimes referred to as enablement). Of course, I’m assuming you’ve already done the important inbound/upstream marketing:
Why Biases Limit Your Potential
Yesterday I posted an article about how to try to unstick your thinking for greater creativity. I received an email in response from a client who told me they weren’t stuck for new ideas. Instead, their thinking was stuck from…
On-boarding New PR Clients
Makasha Dorsey over at Solo PR Pro quoted me for a recent article on how to get PR clients up and running quickly. If you haven’t read her posts, you should. There are a ton of great posts for both consulting pros and internal teams.
Email Drives More Sales
Matt Wilson over at PRDaily.com (also Ragan.com) quoted me in an article about email vs. social media. Thanks Matt.
Matthew Turner of consultancy Boston Turner Group says email wins the sales race, at least for now, because communicators can target emails more effectively. A tweet about a sale or an offer on a certain type of shirt appeals only to the fraction of the audience looking for that shirt.
How to Segment Data to Boost Response and Conversion
Your customers and prospects are as individually different as the colors in a rainbow. If you understand how to target and communicate to them based on those differences, your response rates will be just as beautiful. If you try to mix your messages for the masses, the colors will run together and you’ll have a less-than-beautiful muddy mess.
Last week I fired off a post suggestion that we should all be looking at data segmentation in our lists to improve response rates. I had some great feedback on the post from readers wanting more detail, including this email from a friend:
I completely agree that segmentation will improve response rates. What do you suggest we look at as segments?
So here are some thoughts to get you going.