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Marketing for Technology Companies: Strategies of Differing Stages of Growth February 19, 2002 IT Zone
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The Up-Start A brief history Challenges The fundamentals Insight The future is very cool
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A Brief History Founded January 2, 2001 Commercialization arm of BioMedware Eleven combined employees –Flexible, motivated, intelligent Friends and family funded
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The Technology What we do –Pattern recognition technology for geographic and time-based data What we deliver –Greater meaning from data leading to better business decisions and ROI
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GIS Visualizes TerraSeer Exploits
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Challenges Market –GIS market well established; spatial analysis market in infancy The strategic hat juggling act –Business, marketing, investment, product –Resource constraints The three R’s (reality, revenue and ROI)
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Product Target markets –What do you want to be when you grow up and what do you have to do to get there? Education - the market maker dilemma –Packaged software and consulting services Case studies, technical presentations, demos, extensive online technical information
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Price It’s harder than you think –Competitive analysis You never know until you start to sell –Adapt to meet your long term goals
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Promotion Driving early adopter interest –Networking Press, local awards, IT Zone Boot Camp, student contest –Web site –Tradeshows Demos - What not to do Listen - keep honing communication Marketing Advisory Meeting
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Insight Honesty and re-evaluation If you don’t know how to do it - learn it –Never take advantage of people –Never stop asking for help
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The Future Is Very Cool Discussion with three global reference customers Distributors Joined forces with SpaceStat Some really great press is coming Each day we get smarter
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TerraSeer 2001 The team, the opportunity Each day a combination of dreams and reality I cannot think of anywhere else I’d rather be MaryAnn Labant VP, Marketing TerraSeer 734.913.1098 malabant@terraseer.com
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