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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

Categories of New Products – What is a New Product?
5 min read
18 September 2016

Categories of New Products – What is a New Product?

What is "New"? Explore the wide spectrum of what constitutes a "new product." Understand the range from revolutionary inventions to subtle repositioning.

Effective Market Segmentation Criteria: The Key to Targeted Marketing
4 min read
27 June 2016

Effective Market Segmentation Criteria: The Key to Targeted Marketing

Customer Profiling Understand the key ways to segment your market. Learn about demographics, geography, buying habits, and more for precise targeting.

Product Characteristics that influence the Adoption Rate
4 min read
11 June 2016

Product Characteristics that influence the Adoption Rate

The Product Itself Matters Focus on the five key product characteristics and how they influence consumer decisions.

Advertising Budget Decisions – Size of the promotional Budget
5 min read
27 May 2016

Advertising Budget Decisions – Size of the promotional Budget

Advertising is one of the most visible forms of communication. Therefore, advertising budget decisions are critical. Choosing the promotional budget can be a tough process, so study the available methods carefully!

Factors influencing Intensity of Competition in an Industry
4 min read
25 May 2016

Factors influencing Intensity of Competition in an Industry

The intensity of rivalry between existing competitors in a market or industry depends on a number of factors. Assessing the intensity of competition in an industry is the most important step in the 5 Forces of Porter Model Analysis.

Major PR Tools – Public Relations Tools
4 min read
24 May 2016

Major PR Tools – Public Relations Tools

Many public relations tools exist. However, the most important PR tools fall into 7 categories. Public relations (PR) is the way a company communicates with the public and media. The aim is to create and maintain a positive image and a strong relationship with the target audience.

Initiating price changes –Initiate price cuts and increases successfully
5 min read
26 October 2015

Initiating price changes –Initiate price cuts and increases successfully

Explore when and how to implement price increases or decreases, including the importance of maintaining customer trust and brand image.

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.

Cost-based Pricing – Pricing based on Costs
6 min read
11 August 2015

Cost-based Pricing – Pricing based on Costs

Cost-based pricing involves setting prices based on the costs for producing, distributing and selling the product. But costs represent the other extreme: costs set the floor for the price that the company can charge.

Product Life Cycle Strategies (PLC) and Characteristics – Managing each PLC Stage
11 min read
2 July 2015

Product Life Cycle Strategies (PLC) and Characteristics – Managing each PLC Stage

The Product Lifecycle Roadmap Understand the distinct stages of a product's lifecycle and learn how to optimize your marketing strategy throughout each phase.

Product Life Cycle Stages (PLC) – Managing the Product Life Cycle
6 min read
30 June 2015

Product Life Cycle Stages (PLC) – Managing the Product Life Cycle

The Product Journey Understand the classic product life cycle stages from Introduction through Decline. Learn how sales and profits change over time.

7 Characteristics of Services That Finally Get Clients to Say Yes
12 min read
3 June 2015

7 Characteristics of Services That Finally Get Clients to Say Yes

The Service Challenge Discover the unique characteristics of services, such as inseparability and variability. Learn how businesses overcome these challenges.

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