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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. Ongoing innovation. experience, its culture celebrating weirdness, and its 24/7 call center that will even find an open pizza shop presents a high bar.

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