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Twelve Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Harvard Business Review

The only real way to grow sales and profits is to create innovative offerings with some "must haves" that define new categories or subcategories for which competitors are not relevant. Here are some twelve routes to real barriers the last six of which involve the brand. Ongoing innovation. Brand networks. Brand equity.

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