CORE PRODUCT OFFERING (What Do You Sell? What Specifically Will Be Your Focus in Kickstart?)

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CORE PRODUCT OFFERING (What do you sell? What specifically will be your focus in Kickstart?)

Focus on only one product that you currently sell. This could be your best seller or a less productive product or service you want to highlight.

IDEAL CUSTOMER (Who specifically buys it? Who do you like to work with?)

Try to narrow down to the most likely target to purchase the above product. Be as specific as possible as to who your ideal customer is.

VALUE PROPOSITION (What do you offer that others don’t?)

Summarize why your ideal customer buys this product or service.

What do you help your customers achieve?

These are positive or good things you assist your customer with - how do you help them to grow, improve, maximize, enhance, etc?

What do you help your customers avoid?
Think of this as to what pain or negative things you are helping your customers solve. Such as “stop wasting time” or “avoid spending unnecessary money.”

Why do customers buy from you instead of an alternative?

This is your place to shine! What makes your company unique? What common industry mistakes do you keep your customers from?

List Size

How many customers or prospects are in your list that match your ideal customer identified above? What’s your total customer and prospect list?

Now, let’s translate and organize the sales and marketing efforts for your Core Product Offering into the Lifecycle Marketing framework to identify future plans, gaps, and opportunities to grow sales and/or save time.

Your Kickstart will focus on one core product and one target market to allow you to soft launch a tactic that addresses any gaps or gets you closer to future plans.