22/02/2018 1 Evening Class Session #1 Welcome • Ingenuity18 is the University of Nottingham’s annual, tri-campus entrepreneurship competition BUT • It is also an amazing opportunity for everyone involved to develop and upskill • Please make full use of this by actively engaging and networking Over the next 5 weeks we will . . . • Introduce you to various key business topics: • Understanding your market • Effectively communicating your message • Tools to help you produce a business plan • Generating a cashflow / financial modelling • Intellectual Property & legal issues • Managing teams, gaining legitimacy, etc etc etc … Hopefully of use for Ingenuity18 AND beyond! This Year’s Training Team Simon Mosey David Park Liz Bolt Mel Berry Chris Hartland Tracey Hassall-Jones PLUS Guest Entrepreneurs Emma Hartley Charanjit Lakhanpal Mitchell Fasanya Dan Simmons YES Winner #1 (TBC) YES Winner #2 (TBC) What is “the game” for Ingenuity18?
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22/02/2018
1
Evening Class
Session #1
Welcome
• Ingenuity18 is the University of Nottingham’s
annual, tri-campus entrepreneurship competition
BUT
• It is also an amazing opportunity for everyone
involved to develop and upskill
•Please make full use of this by actively engaging
Do you need to adapt your marketing strategy or product to meet their specific needs
How big is each sector – are they all equally easy/hard to reach?
DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS?
Why – to influence their behaviour?
How many people are going to want to buy our product?
Where do they live?
How much are they willing to pay?
How do they like to pay?
How are they managing without our product service?
How much /many will they buy and how often?
Where and when do they shop?
Barriers and triggers
How do you get to them?
Barriers?
Triggers?
In groups – debate this…
Can you change them?
Barriers?
Triggers?
In groups – tell us …
Know your customer
Who has come before you?
Original purpose to offer affordable places to stay across the world.
Following extensive research of people who actually used their service a more intimate travel experience than generic, mass-market tourism.
Airbnb allows travellers to immerse themselves in different cultures in a way that other accommodation providers can’t.
In the eyes of the customer, the opportunity to stay in someone’s home is a unique and refreshing experience in a world where welcoming human interaction is a rarity.
‘Belong anywhere’ became the purpose of Airbnb’s offering.
The company now exists to break down barriers and create communities, not just offer a cheap travel alternative.
A clear sense of purpose comes from understanding your customers and taking time to listen to exactly why they use your product or service.
Know your customer
PLUS SIZE SPORTSWEAR
Company xxxx recognised a need for plus size – 16-28 sportswear based on her own experience.
Further research provided information that size 18+ customers found it hard to find low cost appropriate sportswear for activities such as Yoga and Pilates
The reality – size 24 is best selling size – why?
Stage 3 - Is there really a need for the business ?
The HOW = The process
How will you prove this?
How robust is your research?
Are your methods appropriate?
Who have you asked?
Have you asked the right questions?
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Competitors
Who offers a similar product or service?
OR
Where else do your customers spend their money?
If your idea is something completely new what other product sectors will suffer ?
USP – POSTIONING STATEMENTS
What is your USP?
Is it strong enough to disrupt the market? Or to take market share
Price/product/promotion and place
Market position – are you clear?
Perceptual mapping
Back to basics
The WHAT = The result
Is the product or service simple to explain – one liner? What is it ?What problem does it solve? Who is it for ?
2)Can you easily get the message across? Will people understand the benefits or is it hard to explain?
3) Who offers a similar product/solution? Why is your idea better? Your USP
4) How much will it cost to produce and market?How much money do you need? For how long?ROI – When? How much?
5) What are the opportunities for growth? Diversification
6) Risks involved?
What is yours? Tell us in a KISS way…
Stage 4 – Some nice thinking…THE FUTURE OF BRANDS
Bit of BLUE SKY thinking…
• Responsibility
• Collaboration
• Post Consumer
• Rent/share economy
• Sustainable
In 2015, Nielson published its annual Global Corporate Sustainability Report. It indicated that, globally, 66% of consumers are willing to spend more on a product if it comes from a sustainable brand. Millennials gave an even more impressive showing, with 73% of surveyed millennials indicating a similar preference. Additionally, 81% of millennials even expect their favorite companies to make public declarations of their corporate citizenship.
What do you think they mean and are they important?
Quiz time…..
What brand is this?
"Making a sustainable difference every day"
Caring for our communities, our customers, patients and colleagues is at the heart of who we are and what we do. For over 165 years, we have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to operating as a socially responsible business and we recognise the active role we can play in helping to build happier and healthier communities.
And the winner is????
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