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Selling Blue Elephants: How To Make Great Products That People Want Before They Even Know They Want Them
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Selling Blue Elephants: How To Make Great Products That People Want Before They Even Know They Want Them

by Howard R. Moskowitz - PH.D., Alex Gofman - PH.D.
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 40m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Selling Blue Elephants: How To Make Great Products That People Want Before They Even Know They Want Them

Chapter 5. Discover More About Your Competitors Than They Themselves Know—Legally!

This chapter is not about “cloak-and-dagger, mission-impossible” type of commercial espionage, although the results might be much more exciting to the business professional. Let’s change our mis en scene to the often-frenetic, generally frazzled content programming and marketing department of a Web-based broadcaster specializing in teen ezines (teen-based newsletters on the Internet). Unlike the scientists in the first chapters, there’s no test tube in sight; the mere mention of statistical modeling makes the more creative of the group wince with pain, real or affected; and even in the most optimistic case, the deadline is always yesterday. Pain or no pain, technology-driven ...

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