3D Printer Marketing Protocol

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Introduction

Marketing revolves around understanding the market and cultivating lists of potential customers by answering questions of

  • Market segmentation - what specific market are we pursuing? Select a beachhead market - the main market of interest.
  • Market research - for a beachhead market - what are the needs and pain points that we can satisfy?
  • Identify an End User Profile
  • Define a Persona - someone who represents the End User Profile very well
  • Market size - what is the total adressable market size? TAM
  • Identify a Life Cycle Use Case - how does a person find out about, acquire, pay for, use, gains value from, and spreads the word about your product.
  • Define a high level product specification (Diagram), and then a Product Brochure.
  • Quantify the Value Proposition
  • Identify 10 more potential customer Personas who also fit the End User Profile -
  • Identify your Core - or Unique Value Proposition. What unique thing can only you offer? It is public design. There is nobody that makes real products via a collaborative process, outside of China. Such as: the only company in the world that allows you to make products with closed loop material cycles. Metal we melt, plastic we grind, and organics we return to the soil food web.

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