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Market Testing Velocity

March 5, 2014 by LaunchTomorrow Leave a Comment

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The best way to discover what makes your prospects tick is to run
an experiment. If you are pressed for time, the best way to
discover what makes them buy is to run many experiments over a very
short time period.

Assuming these two would cost exactly the same amount, which would
be more valuable to you as a product manager?

  1. 1 test, which runs for one week, which gives you 99% certainty
    on your results
  2. 30 tests, which take one hour each, with 90% certainty each

Clearly the second set of tests is much more valuable. When you
finish the first test, you can form another hypothesis and test
that. One set of results directly feeds into the rest. If you want
to identify surprising results quickly, as this is most likely to
give you outsized results, option B is a much better way to enter a
market.

To some extent, it’s reversing the iterative nature of agile,
and applying it during pre-development when performing product
research. Feedback loops are enormously powerful when dealing with
prospects and customers too.

“Market Testing Velocity” can mean a lot to you in a
high-pressure situation if you want to get something going quickly.
If you complete tests quickly, you can run multiple tests in
succession.

In this case, you are doing marketing research on your
prospects or existing customers, in order to map out what they
need. Your goal is to identify what they need most, a
“bleeding neck”, as quickly as possible. You are trying
to discover a cognitive and emotional map of their needs, in order
to orient your own efforts most effectively.

If this tickled your fancy, and you’d like to read more about
market testing velocity, you’ll find out more in Launch Tomorrow.

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