Market Research

• Product – Based on the findings, our team will be able to recommend necessary changes to the product that best suit your consumers
  
  • Why do products fail? The most common cause of a startup (product) failure is product / market mismatch (42%). You may have an excellent team and an innovative product – but it doesn’t matter if there is no market for your product.
  • In about 30% of the cases, when developers start developing an MVP before examining the market in depth, during market research & competitor analysis, we find that there are very similar and even identical solutions to the product developed by the team. In most cases, the market may be large and may have room for another player, but when it comes to startups, you need to present an innovation on an existing solution; otherwise the chance of raising money is relatively low.
  • When the Targo team conducts market research, it allows the enterprise team to define the MVP It is therefore important to ask the right questions. Research done poorly can lead the startup in the wrong direction.
• Price –We will set an optimal price for your product or service that takes into account margins, competitors’ pricing and how much the consumer is willing to pay

n cases of physical products, two main factors must be understood:

1. What is the Cost of Product Manufacturing – In pre-development stages, it is difficult to estimate the COGS, but you can look at launching products on Alibaba to get estimates
2. How much the consumer is willing to pay for the product?

Sometimes the entrepreneur develops an innovative product, but the COGS are high and require high product pricing, well above what the consumer is willing to pay. The result is that there is an innovative product, but no one is willing to pay a high price. Market research and early planning would have enabled the product to be designed more efficiently & cost effective, or the idea would be abandoned all together in favor of a more practical idea

•  Location – Depending on the research, we determine where and how to distribute the product.

The research will help the company decide how and where to distribute the service or product. The research can affect the business model of the start-up and even cause the transition from a B2C model to a B2B model and vice versa. Market research allows you to identify opportunities for strategic collaborations and streamline the market penetration process.

• Promotion – Defining the most effective marketing channels to reach your audience.

  • Targo helps start-ups build an effective go-to-market strategy. We believe that an effective market penetration plan is a link between team decisions about where to compete and how to define the customer experience. This approach to the market penetration process enables start-ups to identify an attractive target audience, acquire seed users, deliver a tailored value proposition and maximize ROI on its initial investment. Companies in the early phases face budgetary constraints; therefore if the go-to-market plan is not based on in-depth market research, it can lead to a high cost of user acquisition and impair the ability of the venture to raise additional funding in the next round.