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9.1. Optimising and controlling the acceptance of an Innovative product/service

Introduction
 
For many companies, and especially for those trying to market new products or services, marketing of innovation is a very complex process involving a multitude of activities. One of them is optimizing and controlling the acceptance of innovative products/services.
 
What is optimizing and controlling the acceptance of an innovative product/service?
 
Optimizing and controlling the acceptance of an innovative product/service is a marketing activity that requires market research for innovative product/services in order them to be successfully accepted from the market and the so called method of “marketing mix”.
 
In order for your business to sell its products and services as successfully as possible, you need to look at what products you are selling in detail to ensure they will be attractive and needed; the price to ensure it is not too cheap or too expensive; where you are best distributing your product; and finally, how you can create interest and awareness for your products.  All these elements need to be targeted at the right people at the right time.  
 
In order for your business to tackle this correctly, you need to get the right type of mix (marketing mix), the mix should include four main elements: Product, Price, Place and Promotion, by examining each carefully and adapting them to your customer's needs, you will continue to produce needed products and services.
 
Why and where optimizing and controlling the acceptance of an innovative product/service can be used?
 
Optimizing and controlling the acceptance of an innovative product/service is of vital importance for a company because it is actually the marketing activities that can introduce an attractive product to the market. Many factors impact consumer purchase decisions and identifying what is most important to your consumers is always a challenge, made harder when your products are developed outside a market for which they are marketed eventually.
 
The optimization and control of acceptance of innovative products/services should be applied by all types of firms (manufacturing or service). This marketing activity takes part at the beginning of the planning of a new product/service in order to know what do the customers really need and avoid spending money for products with low demands. This is where the company starts to spend its marketing budget in order to collect all the data required and to make their analysis.

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