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Tag Archives: Strategy

Innovation in Aftermarket Offerings for Industrial Marketers

By Greg | Published: June 25, 2010
Often the most profitable, yet most neglected, portion of an industrial equipment company’s portfolio is its range of aftermarket solutions, such as replacement parts and repair services. Typically a captive market, aftermarket parts and services offer significant profit margin potential, yet the attitude most often in place at industrial equipment firms is that such sales “just happen” and there is not much that can be done to influence them. This attitude overlooks the great improvement that even a small increase in aftermarket sales can provide to the bottom line.
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Book Review – Beating the Commodity Trap

By Greg | Published: May 26, 2010
Beating the Commodity Trap: How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power provides some outstanding advice and case studies on using value equivalence lines (or price-benefit lines) to understand pricing dynamics in your industry and craft strategies to respond to commoditization pressures.
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Strategic Pricing Using Value Equivalence Lines

By Greg | Published: April 15, 2010
To improve on your outdated cost-plus pricing approach, consider developing and using Value Equivalence Lines (VELs) to help set you positioning and pricing strategies in a given market.
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Spreading More Crumbs of Cogitation

By Greg | Published: March 26, 2010
In recent guest posts on other blogs, I discuss why Six Sigma is a bad idea for startups, how to extend your brand presence at trade shows, the impact of demographics on business, and leadership tips from Jack Welch.
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Mitigating Strategic, Operational, and Organizational Business Risk

By Greg | Published: March 21, 2010
In a series of three posts, Jeff Davis proposes several processes to use to help you understand and mitigate strategic, operational, and organizational risk in your business.
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