Marketing Your Software
 

Table of Contents
Marketers like the letter "P". The Marketing Mix is product, price, promotion, and place. Add positioning and a target market and you have a marketing strategy.
  Target Market Who are the potential customers for your product and which ones are the most important for a new software product?
     
  Product The first "P" of marketing...what are you trying to market from a customers point of view?
     
  Positioning How does your software compare to the competition in the mind of the customer?
     
  Price How do you determine a price?
     
  Promotion What can you do on a limited budget to promote your software? Includes information on direct mail campaigns.
     
  Place Just another word for distribution (they had to find a word that began with "P").
     
  Packaging What will the container for your product be and how important is it?
     
  Beta Testing What does beta testing do for you, how you get testers, and who should you get?
     
  Customer Relationship Is it over after the sale?
     
  Layout and Design Information and guidelines to formatting letters, ads, and direct mail.
     
  Marketing Budget Cost range estimates for main pieces of a software marketing plan.
     
  Point and Click Book list, references, and other related sites - more added all the time
     
  About The Author A little background on me.
 

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