Posts Tagged ‘Product Development’
Want a Powerful Small Business Brand? Avoid These 5 Branding Mistakes
Making these common branding mistakes could limit the potential growth of your business and jeopardize your bottom line. You can set your business apart by avoiding these six common branding mistakes with consistent marketing communications and a solid brand identity.
Read More 10 Tips for Building the Most Scalable Startup
Investors will tell you that they love to put money into startups that are scalable, and ready to scale. But what does that really mean? Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost.
Read More 5 Things You Need to Know Before Investing in a Frozen Yogurt Franchise
Reasonable investment levels, low employment overhead for self-serve models, low operational costs compared with other food service businesses, and relative ease are just some of the factors that might appeal to a person looking to open a small business with support from a franchisor.
Read More Basic Steps to Protect Your Invention
Once you’ve come up with a great idea for a product or service, it’s important to find ways to protect your invention. Not only do you want to make sure people know that it was you who invented the product, but you also want to prevent anyone else from copying your idea and profiting off of your ingenuity, cutting you out of the fruits of your labor.
Read More How to Create a Minimum Viable Product
One of the most important principles in startups today revolves around the idea of a Minimum Viable Product, or MVP. An MVP is the absolute bare minimum service or product that will allow you to get users, buyers, clients, etc. to see how they interact with your main idea.
Read More 8 Keys to Entrepreneurs Who Can Make New Markets
The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” This is a statement that they are willing and able (and successful) at projecting market and technology turns, not just straight-line innovations. They have the courage to make bold decisions, often contrary to conventional market research.
Read More Personalize Your Branding Strategy
One of the principal shortcomings of businesses is their failure to establish a recognizable brand. The easiest way to remedy this issue is to capture the attention of consumers by distinguishing your business from the competition.
Read More Turning Your Value Prop Upside Down
We’re all proud of our value propositions! We feature them in our web sites, we’re trained to brag about them to our customers. Usually, when I hear people describe their company’s value proposition, the focus seems to be all about the company or the product.
Read More 3 Secrets to Reinventing Your Industry (Before Someone Else Does)
Your industry is about to change. Best reinvent it before someone else does it for you. And as you reinvent it, ask your team what business will you be in? Which one should you be in?
Read More How to Protect Your Business Idea
Your ideas can be as valuable to you as your physical property and protecting them should be something every business owner, inventor, or entrepreneur takes into consideration. Before you pitch your idea, there are some things to keep in mind about protecting your creativity.
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