Entrepreneurial Marketing Lessons from Wharton's Pioneering MBA Course

Annotation Exploit the powerful marketing/segmentation opportunities for new ventures Marketing is of critical importance to the success of any entrepreneurial venture-and this book gives you the marketing methods, tools, and tactics necessary for successfully building and launching your new business opportunity, especially for e-commerce. Entrepreneurial Marketing combines entrepreneurial expertise with Wharton School business know-how to provide sophisticated marketing approaches that can dramatically reduce the failure rate of new ventures. By adopting entrepreneurial marketing thinking, youĐ’ ll master effective ways to: Identify your target market(s)Develop and evaluate new products and servicesDetermine the role of the sales forceGet the most from advertising and publicityUtilize the Internet for name recognition and brand building"If youĐ’ re unconvinced that marketing makes or breaks entrepreneurial ventures, youĐ’ ll change your mind after reading this book. The Internet, global distribution, and consolidation all create new challenges and opportunities for todayĐ’ s entrepreneurs. The authors offer sound advice and the same kind of solid direction you would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy from a consulting firm. IĐ’ ve used many of these techniques, with Len LodishĐ’ s help, to grow our business from 5% of the market to over 50%."--Ralph Guild, Chairman and CEO, Interep "This book is filled with valuable and productive concepts, methods, ideas, and paradigms. These concepts have been an important contribution to SynergyĐ’ s performance-four consecutive appearances on the Inc. 500 list and acompound growth rate of 80% to current profitable revenue in excess of $20,000,000-all from initial capital of less than $100,000. A must have for entrepreneurs."-Mark Stiffler, Founder and CEO, Synergy, Inc.