5 Ways for Your Product Development Strategy
The term product development strategy is much easier to understand as
a piece of text, than it is to understand in real-life, when it has to
be put to use. It’s purpose is to help us understand how to develop our
products, and how to build a future for them. It can also mean that we
are taking our old products, and making them new again – which requires a
new set of knowledge about the new market.
In the modern world,
product development strategy means we’re creating new products, with new
features and then marketing them to our already established customer
base. Continuous product development is an important part of any
businesses strategy, and if you wish to create new clients, and achieve
more – begin investing in product development.
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I’ve created a diagram to try and display, how a simple strategy
would be observed and executed under normal circumstances. It can be,
that a market itself plays a role in the decision making, but we’re
trying to look at the big picture, suited for all market types.
I’d
like to present to you five essential tips that will help to maximize
the potential of your product development strategy, and I hope you’ll be
able to take something away as a result. I’d love to hear your success
stories, or how you think a strategy should be put together.
1. Be One Step Ahead of the Competition
In
this ever growing world, new markets are being populated by new and
aspiring business people, every single day. They, just like you, are
looking to sell their product to the masses, and they’ve got all the
fresh and juicy ideas to back them up. You should take your experience
to your advantage, and practice building new ideas, hence: being one
step ahead.
Build these ideas, and think about them in long-term,
take all of your resources and maximize the potential of realizing an
idea before someone else does it. Trust me, many of the ideas we get,
someone else had gotten way long before us – the only difference is that
you’ve got the resources to make it happen.
2. Take All Advice You Can Get (Customers, Co-workers, Partners, etc,.)
When
you’re dealing with a new idea that’s ready to be pushed in the market,
always interview and question people about it, ask for their opinions
on what the price should be. You could conclude analysis, but it’s much
cheaper to ask those who’re always around you, and most likely they know
better anyway.
3. Know the Market of Your New Product
Very
important, failing to realize the potential of a market for your new
product can be fatal, and not only to your paycheck – but your
reputation. Let’s say you’re going to release a new SEO software tool,
which is aimed at big businesses who need thorough data about their
competition and their own rankings.
Begin
by concluding surveys, and gather data about these big business, so it
doesn’t happen that there are only ten real sites interested in the
software, who can barely cover the incredibly overpriced costs for it.
If you don’t do this early on, you’re bound to fail, as guessing the
market is not a viable solution.
4. Listen to the Customer & His Needs
Your
key skill is listening, and learning to listen to what the customer
needs. You’re in a position where you’re allowed to ask questions, and
learn answers about them. Take this observation to your advantage, and
begin asking everyone in your market what they think is missing inside
of the industry, and what could you do to help them. It’s so easy, and
it’s completely free. You can never know where the next big ideas is
going to come from, it’s something I’ve lived by for a long time.
5. Monitor Your Market & Industry
Make
the time to monitor your competition, and the industry as a whole. If
you’re working in mobile industry, lets say for Apple – make sure you’re
always up to date with that what’s happening on Android, it’s not as
hard as it might to seem – to keep up with it.
You probably need
just a couple of friends from the industry, and a subscription to the
major news outlets that report Android news. It’s a raw example, but
that’s how you’re going to know the market, and be able to learn about
new concepts and bring forth more ideas to push on the market.
Conclusion:
These
five tips will certainly amplify, and improve your product development
strategy – guaranteed. It’s all about taking the time to know our
priorities, and the priorities of the market. In most cases, we’re
working for a company, and we’re getting paid to do much of this already
– it’s just that we need to accept it’s the way of doing things, and
then develop our ability to see what others fail to see.
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