Monday Media Marketing Minute: Biggest Marketing Plan Mistake
January 5, 2009 by ShannonCherry
Filed under Business
Every year, most businesses create a marketing plan. That’s great! But one thing is missing? Know what it is? Find out by listening to this week’s Monday Media Marketing Minute.
The 1% Market Share Myth Debunked
Tackling big markets is great. Nobody wants to start a company in a market worth $5. Creating new markets is great too, but most startups are built in existing markets – and often they tout the enormity of those markets as a great reason to get into them.
“The mobile industry will be worth $50 billion in 5 years!”
“Advertising online is going to be worth $100 trillion by 2010!”
You can get this sort of data all over the place. Analysts put out reports all the time expounding the growing size of various markets.
The result is that many startups take this approach:
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