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The purpose of this study is to examine the whole process of test marketing a new product on the reward-based crowd-funding platforms (in this case, the flying platform). Using a product, a toner filter, this thesis reports the endeavor of executing such an plan that comprises of product positioning, product design optimizing, brand-construction, and demand creating. Crowdfunding is a platform for a project creator (person or enterprise) to reach the market in a short time so as to receive the response from the market and obtain required capital. The reward-based project type of funding is designed to acquire the required capital for making the first step toward delivering the product to the customers successfully. Crowdfunding makes use of the advantages of the internet so that the creators can use the videos, touching words, and several creative rewards to persuade the social community to sponsor their project. The results show that crowdfunding platforms have great benefits in examining market approval and expand marketing exposure. Crowdfunding platforms offer an initial marketing target-market for the people of similar interest. By following the suggestions from the funding platforms, project creators can follow steps in establishing systematic thinks to aggregate more information. We find that marketing personnel need to take lessons from the crowdfunding platform and the emergence of social community will be beneficial to the future marketing design.
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