Choosing a Market Penetration Strategy

The most common growth strategy is to focus on what you do best by emphasizing your current products in your current markets. This strategy is also called the concentrated growth strategy because you’re thoroughly developing and exploiting your knowledge and expertise in a specific market with known products.

How do you grow if you’re doing what you’re already doing now? Here’s how:

• Increase present customers’ rate of use: You achieve this goal by
  • Increasing the size of purchase
  • Maximizing the rate of product obsolescence
  • Finding new uses for your product
  • Advertising other uses
  • Offering incentives for increased use
• Attracting your competitors’ customers: You lure customers away from your competitors by establishing differentiation between yourself and them, increasing advertising efforts, or cutting your prices. Look at Chapter 5 to find ways to differentiate yourself from other companies.
• Attract nonusers to buy your products: This process can be done by offering trial uses of your products, adjusting the price up or down, and promoting other uses to attract these customers (check out the following Example icon for details).

Is market penetration right for you? Next up, product development.

You may also be interested in:

• Choosing a Product Development Strategy
• How to Choose a Market Development Strategy
• Common Sense Market Research Begins with Identifying Your Needs in the Planning Process

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