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Blue Ocean Strategy 11

 

How to Transform your Clone Business and Stand Out

Every day, entrepreneurs invest huge amounts of time and money to build a business that they think will be better than the competition. However, all too often entrepreneurs struggle to articulate how their value proposition is fundamentally different from their competition.  These businesses are what I call clone businesses. 

3 years ago
Click here to see how to turn your clone business into a business that transforms an industry.
 

How The Graf Spee Can Teach You To Be Successful In Business

History especially when it comes to war is chocked full of lessons for the small business owner if they take the time look at the messages and consider how they might apply the lessons to their own business.

3 years ago
Click here to learn several business lessons based on the wartime history of German merchant raider Graf Spee.
 

An Unbelievably Simple and Overlooked Strategy to Crush Your Market

There are 2 kinds of customers out there: Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-For-Me customers. Most businesses only consider the same type of customers others in their industry are already targeting. Targeting the same customer with similar solutions leads to less opportunity for growth and tighter margins. Few businesses see the potential to offer an alternative solution.

3 years ago
Click here to learn how to come up with alternative solutions.
 

Strategic Partnership Principle – The Truth about Competitive Analysis

Manager entrepreneurs use their causal reasoning skills to conduct a competitive analysis to help them define a unique niche for their business. This is demonstrated by the blue ocean strategy postulated by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. In contrast, founder entrepreneurs use their effectual reasoning skills to build strategic partnerships with customers. Founder entrepreneurs […]

4 years ago
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How Your Reasoning Skills Can Affect Your Business Success

The reasoning style of the manager entrepreneur, with their predominantly causal reasoning, approaches a business startup very different from the founder-entrepreneur, who approaches a startup business primarily with effectual reasoning.

4 years ago
Click here to discover the difference between causal and effectual reasoning
 

The Art Of One-Downing the Competition to Improve Sales

I recently went T.V. shopping with my son, Josh. What never ceases to amaze me is the fact that every brand seems to be one-upping the competition. I remember when plasma T.V.’s were all the rage. That fad met hit a dead end quickly and hardly anyone even makes a Plasma T.V.’s anymore. Yet at […]

4 years ago
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Four Business Lessons From The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

As I write this post, I have just returned from a motorcycle rally in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This rally is often referred to as just “Sturgis.” As always, the trip was full of lessons for entrepreneurs. Now, you may be surprised by that, but stick with me and you’ll discover these lessons […]

4 years ago
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Small Business Stories – Pick Of The Week, May 21 2016

One Surprising Way to Make Sure Your Business Is Successful Inc. By: ELLE KAPLAN @ellekaplan A method to reduce your risk and increase your revenue Read the full story Gary Vaynerchuk on How to Gain Exposure with $1,000 Inc. By: Gary Vaynerchuk Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of Vayner Media and host of The #AskGaryVee Show, describes how a contractor […]

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Coming Up with New Ideas

The task of generating new ideas through the Business Model Canvas exercise should not be left to creative thinkers alone. Moreover, you should not only assemble a team of experts but instead assemble a team of diverse individuals. To increase your team’s diversity, include: People from various business units People of different ages People with […]

5 years ago
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Applying the Blue Ocean Strategy to the Business Model Canvas

To apply the Blue Ocean Strategy, you start with a Business Model Canvas that describes your industry and then look at your the business model canvas from three different perspectives: the cost perspective, value proposition, and the customer segment.

5 years ago
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