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Apple: Luxury Brand or Mass Marketer?

Harvard Business Review

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. Meyer writes: So far, Apple has been a company focused on the mainstream, on the mass consumer, in an era where the most reliable profits could be found in the luxury market. But is that really right?

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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Mass Market and Premium

Harvard Business Review

For example, Gillette has successfully encouraged consumers to trade up again and again by continually introducing razors with the latest and greatest shaving technology. For example, Breyers, the ice cream brand, recognized that the gelato market was booming, but that super-premium gelatos were selling for 2.5

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0 These are: Customer Segments – An organization serves one or several customer segments. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Yelp is Leaving Chains Behind

Harvard Business Review

It makes sense that this technology would help independents gain business — and new data shows that for restaurants, at least, the intuition is correct. In Seattle, Yelp was carrying more than 60,000 reviews covering 70% of the city's restaurants by the end of 2009. It gets some 60 million unique visitors per month.

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Death Knell for the Category Killers?

Harvard Business Review

For mass market retailers who understand this and react quickly, this upheaval is survivable. With the demise of Circuit City in 2009, one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Online retailers, meanwhile, are exploiting their distinct advantages over physical stores.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. How does this work?

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