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How to Build a Brand | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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Five Reasons Why Market Research is Necessary for Your Business

Strategy Driven

There are many questions on which your entire business, its revenue, and eventual profitability hinges: Who is the buyer of your product/service? What is the frequency of your product sale? What kind of people constitutes your niche market? Do they have a specific requirement that is fulfilled by your product/service?

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Navigating the Seas of Entrepreneurship: 7 Pitfalls You Need to Avoid as a Small Business Owner

Strategy Driven

Selecting an oversaturated market can also make it far more difficult for your business to excel, so it is recommended to pick a niche market that you can dominate in. Not Defining Your Target Market. A business that intends to serve everyone often ends up serving nobody well. Not Having Adequate Capital.

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Why Apple Has to Become More Open

Harvard Business Review

Yes, Apple is obviously super-secretive with its customers about product announcements. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off. Most companies don't have the luxury of creating market hype through secrecy. For them, openness is a better strategy.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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What he said was when you see them entering the market as these worse-but-cheaper alternatives, that’s when you needed to start really investigating what those technologies were and how they were going to ultimately replace yours. LARRY: Yeah. It’s a qualitative difference as well as a quantitative difference.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business Review

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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Why Apple Has to Become More Open

Harvard Business Review

Yes, Apple is obviously super-secretive with its customers about product announcements. That can be a powerful marketing technique if you have the market muscle to pull it off. Most companies don't have the luxury of creating market hype through secrecy. For them, openness is a better strategy.