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10 Lessons to Improve B2B Launch Success

with Joan Schneider

Schneider Associates collaborated with the Center for Business Innovation at Babson College on a new survey studying an important, but rarely discussed business activity: B2B launches. The survey polled sales and marketing executives involved in B2B launches to determine best practices and success factors for launching new products and services. In this webinar, Joan will explain how to categorize new products to determine launch campaign strategy. In addition, you’ll learn the top 10 tactics companies can use to improve launch success in the highly competitive B2B market.


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About the Presenter

Joan SchneiderJoan serves as creative director for Schneider Associates, bringing her talent for stimulating creative thought and fostering team spirit among her colleagues. An avid art and antique collector, Joan applies her artistic sense to creating fresh ideas and developing new approaches to public relations strategies. She has forged solid, long-term relationships with clients; and is called on time and again to apply her insight and expertise to a host of marketing communications challenges.

An accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America, Joan has judged the Silver Anvils and the Sabres, two of the most prestigious PR industry awards. She is an active partner in Worldcom Public Relations Group, one of the world's largest public relations alliances located in major markets across the globe, and the Northeast Public Relations Partnership (NEPRP), a group of regional agencies from Maine to New Jersey.

Joan can be reached at jschneider@schneiderpr.com or www.schneiderpr.com

Strategies

Posted by Abdelaziz Musa at 2008-09-19 05:11 PM
Thanks Are there any B2B specific strategies that make the best use of network effects Vs B2C strategies?

B2B Technology Services Launch

Posted by Toby Jones at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
What types of collateral are effective in a B2B Technology Services Launch?

Launch Planning Process

Posted by Mark Severns at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
What other parts of the business need to be involved in the Launch Planning process?

Virtual Tradeshows

Posted by Nicole Wallace at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
What has research shown about Virtual Tradeshows for Software B to B product launch?

Measuring Market Success

Posted by Stephanie Chernin at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
What are some successful methods to measure market success? Isolating the campaign success from other market impacts has proven to be a pain point.

Tradeshows

Posted by Tim Johnson at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
The remaining value of trade shows we've seen is simply educating the market. They are not effective for lead generation and not effective for launches.

The Launch Checklist

Posted by Pam Sichenze at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
The Launch checklist mentioned in the presentation. Was that focused on B2C? or is the check list also applicable to B2B

Launch Process

Posted by Amy Hollister at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
How do you help other organizations in the company support a Launch process? I.e. We rely on all the other departments for info and they are always last minute, which interferes with our ability to deliver a robust launch

Benchmark Metrics

Posted by Frank Tait at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
Any suggestions on benchmark metrics for launch based on sales or projected profits? what is the source of the 500/day in 1970 and 7500/day in 2008?

Tradeshows

Posted by Allison Huffman at 2008-09-19 05:12 PM
What evidence do you have that tradeshows are important in the launch? Over the years, B2B tradeshows seem to be turning into partnering forums. My senior management has a hard time seeing the value of shows and I would say I have to agree with them.

Categories

Posted by Megan Wohlford at 2008-09-23 12:41 PM
Joan- If I using the categories that we went over today, I would consider my company's launches a "better mousetrap". Most of our launches are very incremental, often releasing Product 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and so on as our product evolves. The problem with this is that most of our increments are simply playing catch up to competition. With this situation, do you have any specific advice about how we should market our launches? And I will say, I have learned that 30% of our new business comes from WOM, so I'm interested in expanding on other ways to get our name out.