Product Launch Go To Market Plan
India adds thousands of new packaged consumer products every year, and a large share of them quietly disappear within two quarters. The reason is rarely the product itself. Founders confuse a launch with a launch announcement: the packaging is ready, an influencer posts a reel, and nobody has decided who the first thousand buyers are, what shelf the product is fighting on, how much a single customer costs to acquire on each channel, or what number on day 90 would count as success. A go-to-market plan is the document that forces those decisions before the money is spent, and it is the single most common piece of work a junior marketing or strategy hire is handed in their first month.
The intern writes that document end to end for Bajra Bites, a ₹40 millet-and-peanut protein bar from a fictional Pune food startup called Anaaj Foods, launching across Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru on a ₹12,00,000 budget. The work includes a competitor and pricing matrix covering eight rival bars built from store visits and public listings, three customer personas validated against a 60-response consumer survey run in google-forms, a positioning statement and messaging house, a channel economics model in google-sheets that computes cost per acquired customer, contribution margin and break-even units, a dated 90-day launch calendar running from T minus 30 to T plus 60, a set of instagram-ready creatives designed in canva, and a KPI scorecard with day-30, day-60 and day-90 targets. It all lands as a 14 to 18 page go-to-market plan plus a 10-slide version for investors.
The intern finishes with the exact skill set brand, growth and category management teams interview for: segmentation, competitive benchmarking, positioning, unit economics, channel budgeting and launch project management. More importantly, the intern finishes with proof. Instead of claiming an interest in marketing, they can hand over a plan where every rupee of a launch budget is allocated against evidence, which is a far stronger opening line in an interview than any coursework grade.
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