What better time to launch your new product then right now? Not sure how to launch your next product? Let’s resolve to do product launches better with tried, tested and true ideas we’ve seen during the product launch process.

Want to make your next product launch its’ best? Here are five ways to improve your next product launch.

#1  Revisit what you think you know about your customers

If you’ve been at this for any length of time, you’ve no doubt spent significant time and money in researching and learning about exactly who your users are. But when was the last time you checked in on those users? Sending an old-fashioned e-mail with an attached SurveyMonkey survey can provide more data points to understand your customers.

When you released Widget 1.0 eight years ago, you were marketing to twenty-somethings just starting out in the workplace with x-amount of disposable income. Those people are now thirty-somethings with families and mortgages. Are they still looking for the same things in a widget? You can also embed surveys on your website, as well.

Are they even interested in Widget 8.0, or are you now selling to their little brothers and sisters? Are these new users’ wants and needs and values and lives interchangeable with that of their older siblings at the same age? Not likely.

Target markets grow and change. If you don’t keep up with them, you may find that yours has moved on without you and left no forwarding address.

#2  Become an entertainer

From P.T. Barnum to Steve Jobs, the most successful entrepreneurs know how to make their product launch an event.

It may seem enough to distribute a press release and create glossy marketing materials detailing the many benefits of your latest technological wonder, but people want to be wowed. They want excitement. They want suspense. They want a show.

Steve Jobs’ keynotes kept people on the edge of their seats waiting for that, “one more thing,” that was usually the most exciting feature of all. P.T. Barnum had to actually trick his audience into leaving with signs and arrows touting, “The Great Egress!” so the next paying audience could enter.

You may not be a Jobs or a Barnum, but you can still do something to make your next launch an event. You could, like we did several times, make your important announcements at a leading industry event. (Shout out to Web Summit for being part of our magic fairy dust of our round of Series A funding.)

#3 Embolden your brand

If you want people to be excited about a new product, it can’t be just another iteration of what they’ve already seen from countless others. Make your product a new vision of what that thing can be. Look at what your competitors are doing and find a way to stand out in your own right. Let that uniqueness transition into your brand.

If people come to see yours as the company that innovates instead of simply following the pack, they’ll eagerly await your next release. You’ll be giving them something shiny and new that they’ll want to show off. You’ll make them look forward to the next big release.

#4  Improve your social life

No, not that social life. I mean social as in media. Whatever you’re doing in social media, it’s most likely that you could and should be doing more, or doing it smarter, or both.

The marketing potential of social media is massive, and for many it’s vastly underutilized or used ineffectively.  Whether you take the time to learn about it yourself or simply hire someone to do it for you, the time and money to improve your online brand will be well worth the investment.

For example, planning your social media calendar in advance using a tool like Buffer or HootSuite helps you save time while also engaging with your prospective customers.

Facebook advertising can help you find new audiences. Accompanying paid and organic search results will increase your potential audience. Create a well-converting website and voila. You have yourself a well functioning business!

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