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Improving Your Personal Brand as an Entrepreneur

Lead Change Blog

A strong brand will deliver several business benefits such as being able to charge higher prices for your services and make it easier to acquire new customers. The following are the most important aspects of working on for increasing both B2B branding in addition to B2C branding.

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Staying Ahead of Innovation Challenges

Harvard Business Review

We recently hosted at frog design a group of mid-career executives who are in the Global Executive MBA program at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. These equate to a race to the bottom on price, and an inability to differentiate except on price. It's a death spiral.

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To Spur Growth, Target Profitable "Prosumers"

Harvard Business Review

A prosumer camera is one that is borderline professional grade but a price point in between a consumer camera (few hundred dollars) and a professional camera (few thousand dollars). In my teacher's mind, it was an investment in a future career. Prosumers can be the guide to finding unmet demand on the price/value curve.

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

Rather, design is a highly influential force that, when effectively integrated with strategy, marketing, and so forth, can help the company stay out in front of its competitors by staying close to customers and commanding handsome price premiums. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Pricing and revenue modeling. Startup : Beyond discovery, definition, and shipping, PMs may also be responsible for pricing, marketing, support, and potentially even sales of the product. Mature Company: The PM may have a more narrow scope, have co-workers who handle pricing, go-to-market strategies, etc.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business Review

So a school could legitimately prepare a student for a business career while omitting training in sales. Buyers now have easy-click access to information about products, prices, and other buyers’ opinions and usage experiences. Does this mean that all business goes online?

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business Review

Time, whether measured by hours in a day or days in a career, is finite. Consider the case of one B2B supplier that wanted to figure out what made some salespeople top performers. In other words, they connected with people who could help them with customer issues, such as staff in finance, legal, pricing, or marketing.