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Brand Strategy Decisions: 4 Moves That Make People Actually Remember Your Brand
10 min read
10 August 2025

Brand Strategy Decisions: 4 Moves That Make People Actually Remember Your Brand

Master Your Brand: Essential Branding Decisions for Success Take control of your brand's future. This guide covers crucial branding decisions, including brand positioning, name selection, target market definition, and strategies for building brand awareness and equity.

A Guide to Individual Product Decisions: What to Build and Why
12 min read
13 May 2015

A Guide to Individual Product Decisions: What to Build and Why

Perfecting Your Product: Key Decisions for Success You have an idea, now how do you turn it into a market hit? Explore the critical choices you'll make about branding, features, packaging, and more. Discover how these decisions shape the customer experience.

The Buyer Black Box: Creating Buyer Personas
16 min read
14 February 2025

The Buyer Black Box: Creating Buyer Personas

Unlock the secrets of your ideal customer with this guide to creating powerful buyer personas. Learn how to understand their motivations, pain points, and desires to craft targeted marketing strategies that resonate.

5 Price Adjustment Strategies Every New Founder Should Know Before Setting Their First Price
12 min read
12 September 2015

5 Price Adjustment Strategies Every New Founder Should Know Before Setting Their First Price

Understand Pricing Psychology Learn how pricing influences customer behavior. Use targeted strategies to create a sense of value and urgency.

Differentiation – Set apart the Company, Brand and Product
12 min read
13 April 2015

Differentiation – Set apart the Company, Brand and Product

In order to achieve a strong position in the segment the company has chosen, it has to find ways to set itself apart. A competitive advantage is a value difference between the offers of one company as opposed to competing offers on the market.

How To Find the Best Types of Business Structures for YOU
13 min read
13 January 2025

How To Find the Best Types of Business Structures for YOU

Choosing the right legal structure for your startup is crucial for growth and attracting investment. This article explores different business entities like sole proprietorships, LLCs, partnerships, C-corporations, and S-corporations, explaining their advantages and disadvantages. Learn about SPACs and SPVs, and understand how to minimize risk for investors.

How Much Can I Sell My Startup For? – Business Valuation
21 min read
21 May 2025

How Much Can I Sell My Startup For? – Business Valuation

Learn how to value your startup and understand the different methods used by investors. Discover the importance of tangible and intangible assets, explore key valuation approaches like EBITDA and discounted cash flow, and gain insights into the reality of early-stage valuations. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of business valuation for entrepreneurs.

Should You Start A Business With Your Friend Or Relative?
11 min read
19 June 2025

Should You Start A Business With Your Friend Or Relative?

Starting a business with friends can be a great way to leverage trust and shared passion. However, it's crucial to set clear expectations, define roles, and address potential conflicts. This article explores the pros and cons of working with friends, provides tips for navigating disagreements, and emphasizes the importance of open communication to ensure a successful partnership.

Unit Economics Explained: A Startup’s Guide to Driving Profits and Growth
14 min read
22 December 2024

Unit Economics Explained: A Startup’s Guide to Driving Profits and Growth

Unlock the secrets of startup success with a deep dive into unit economics. Learn how to track key metrics like customer acquisition cost, lifetime value, and churn rate to make data-driven decisions and optimize your business for profitability.

How to Scale (or Grow) Your Business – and what’s the difference?
10 min read
13 June 2025

How to Scale (or Grow) Your Business – and what’s the difference?

Scaling your business can feel overwhelming. Learn the difference between scaling vs growth, validate your value, and implement smart business scaling strategies for sustainable success. Avoid common pitfalls and unlock economies of scale.

Recent Posts

Products as a Bundle of Benefits – Products from the Viewpoint of Customers
6 min read
29 July 2018

Products as a Bundle of Benefits – Products from the Viewpoint of Customers

The concept of product as a bundle of benefits is a theory which seeks to explain a product from the viewpoint of a consumer... Since marketing involves seeing everything the firm does from the viewpoint of the customer, marketers define products as a bundle of benefits.

Role of Reference Prices in Pricing Decisions – Reference-based Pricing
5 min read
21 July 2018

Role of Reference Prices in Pricing Decisions – Reference-based Pricing

Reference pricing means setting your prices based on how they compare to similar products in the market. Understand how customers use reference prices and how to influence their perceptions for smarter pricing decisions.

How To Double Your Rates Using Value-Based Segmentation
11 min read
8 July 2018

How To Double Your Rates Using Value-Based Segmentation

Unlock Profit with Value-Based Segmentation Tired of one-size-fits-all pricing? Learn how to segment your market based on what customers truly value. Discover how to identify high-value customers, tailor your offerings, and maximize profitability.

Estimating Differentiation Value – Measuring Monetary and Psychological Value
7 min read
1 July 2018

Estimating Differentiation Value – Measuring Monetary and Psychological Value

Value-based pricing requires the estimation of the economic value of a product: to what extent does a good or service provide additional value to a consumer? Estimating differentiation value requires strategic approaches towards measuring monetary and psychological value.

Economic Value Estimation – How to estimate Economic Value?
5 min read
27 June 2018

Economic Value Estimation – How to estimate Economic Value?

Discover how to calculate economic value, a core concept in value-based pricing. Learn to determine reference value, differentiation value, and their impact on optimal pricing

Role of Economic Value in Pricing – Value-based Pricing
6 min read
25 June 2018

Role of Economic Value in Pricing – Value-based Pricing

Understand the crucial role of economic value in setting prices. Learn the difference between use value, economic value, and how differentiation impacts pricing strategies.

Alternative Service Pricing Strategies – Pricing Services Effectively
5 min read
14 May 2018

Alternative Service Pricing Strategies – Pricing Services Effectively

Due to the many special considerations surrounding the pricing of services, traditional pricing strategies such as penetration pricing, competitive pricing, and premium pricing may not be suitable... we will take a look at emerging alternative service pricing strategies.

Evolution of Marketing Theory – From Production to Marketing Orientation
8 min read
20 March 2018

Evolution of Marketing Theory – From Production to Marketing Orientation

Beyond Products Explore marketing orientation as a holistic philosophy. Understand how it impacts all areas of a business, not just sales.

Functions of Distributors – What roles do Distributors play for Manufacturers and Consumers?
6 min read
5 March 2018

Functions of Distributors – What roles do Distributors play for Manufacturers and Consumers?

In industrial markets, intermediaries may be the key factor in the success or failure of a company. What are the functions of distributors? What roles do they play for manufacturers and consumers?

Reasons for Deleting a Product or Product Line – Time to Say Goodbye
4 min read
1 March 2018

Reasons for Deleting a Product or Product Line – Time to Say Goodbye

Sometimes companies decide that they will no longer produce or sell a particular product. What are the factors by which companies can recognize that the “time to say goodbye” has arrived?

How to Use Market Segmentation to Specialize And Be Seen as an Expert in Your Niche
5 min read
14 February 2018

How to Use Market Segmentation to Specialize And Be Seen as an Expert in Your Niche

Explore strategies for successfully targeting market niches. Learn how to specialize in specific end-users, production levels, customers, geographies, product features, quality-price points, and services.

Factors influencing the Adoption Process
6 min read
4 February 2018

Factors influencing the Adoption Process

Explore how individual differences, personal influence, and product characteristics shape the pace at which consumers accept new products.

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