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The myth of branding

Opinion: Let's not kid ourselves, brand equity is a temporary phenomenon, due more to market inefficiencies than to our promotional prowess.

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Why resellers don't sell, and why you should be glad they don't!

Feature: It's your reseller's job to provide distribution points for your products.  It's yours to 'make a market' for those products.  Delegate your 'market making' responsibilities with extreme caution!

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The importance of 'getting religion'

Feature: Great content is more than simple information, education or instruction.  Great content flows from a higher cause … an ideology.  The presence of this ideology adds an overriding purpose to all of your communications, supercharging their effectiveness.

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How clean is clean: lessons from a monopolist Opinion: I explained that there was another exciting benefit in sharing this quality management system with potential customers (and with other market players, for that matter). In sharing its system, our client had the opportunity to establish an industry standard.

Baptism by fire: a sustainable competitive advantage or else! Opinion: My guest opened our meeting by explaining that he had a boutique insolvency practice. Now, when I think of the word 'boutique', three attributes spring immediately to mind: 'small', 'specialised' and 'expensive'.

The Internet: 'business opportunity' or 'opportunity for business'? Opinion: The fact is, there's more mileage in using the Internet to better execute your existing strategy than there is in treating it as an entirely new business model.

If it quacks like a duck! Opinion: I suspect that the market applies the ‘duck test’ to determine whether or not a product is deserving of a new category. In other words, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck!

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Is customer service overrated? Opinion: Conventional wisdom denounced

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Go ahead.  Compete on price! Opinion: Go ahead.  Compete on price!

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How Harry Edgecliffe's success killed his thriving pet food business Special feature: Humour: competitive strategy in action.

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Discounting: how to 'buy' new clients without selling your corporate soul From our archives: some insights in to discounting  

 

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