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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

Understanding market trends requires thorough market research and analysis. It can involve studying consumer behavior, monitoring competitors, and staying informed about industry developments. It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies.

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Why the X Games Won’t Dethrone the Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The reason why serves as a good reminder of how to assess the full impact of a potentially disruptive innovation. An innovator develops a solution that trades off raw performance (the way it historically was defined at least) in the name of simplicity, accessibility, or affordability. Disruptive innovation'

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

We saw it differently, describing to industry leaders the need to radically change in response to disruptive content models (later that year, Huffington Post and YouTube were founded) and emerging advertising models like Google’s search-based advertising. Disruptive innovation Innovation'

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others.

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

As American, Delta, and United changed their fare structures and slashed prices month after month to undercut each other, Southwest took out advertisements saying, “We’d like to match their new fares…but we would have to raise ours.” To the extent they advertise at all, they focus almost exclusively on price.

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Learn to Adjust Your Focus

Harvard Business Review

A market segment can be characterized broadly (women 25-34) or specifically (women in an early career phase who are newly-married and starting a family). Specific thinking is particularly important for planning, branding, and advertising. An advertising campaign or product launch cannot target a loosely-defined, abstract person.

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GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review

may lead to the end of what has long been the internet’s grand bargain: the exchange of free or subsidized content for personalized advertising. If the grand bargain unravels, entrepreneurs will no doubt innovate new ways to make money and continue developing disruptive products and services.