Marketing Objectives

Marketing strategy matters and its importance can't be overstated. Entrepreneurs have a tendency to fall in love with their product/service and just assume that everyone else will feel that same attraction. Too often all the company funds have been expended by the time the product is ready for market under the logic that very little marketing will be required once customers realize the product is available.

"Build it and they will come" works in the movies not in the business world. Search Engine Optimization, keyword strategies, website design and much more are part of marketing your company and product on the Internet.

Entrepreneurs often talk more about how much of the product they intend to sell rather than how they are going to sell it.

The Marketing Strategies consists of:

Marketing Objectives
Image Definition
Distribution
Promotion

Marketing Objectives

This is the nitty gritty of the marketing. The objectives should be expressed as either units sold, or revenues achieved, within a time period. Justify the objectives based on the size of the market, market trend, target market, and your marketing strategies.