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Marketing your idea: Avoid the feature trap!
Now anyone who has ever been put through the sales training mill at Procter & Gamble will have had drilled into them the difference between ‘features’ and ‘benefits’. What’s that got to do with me and my business proposition? I don’t sell packaged goods and I don’t have the biggest advertising budget in the world! Well if you’re looking to market... [Read more of this post]
7 Websites You Must Check Out Before You Enter a New Market
Whether you are lucky enough to be armed with a new product idea or you have yet to crystallize your thoughts, you’d be mad to put any serious money into the project before you had a good understanding of the market. Knowing about your chosen market environment and what makes your customers tick are vital to the innovation process. But before you launch into costly primary research there is... [Read more of this post]
Just because you are called Leonardo da Vinci does not make you an entrepreneur
Now here’s a thought. What does it take to turn an idea into a good commercial business? Turn it on its head and wonder if being the greatest scientist and scholar of the century means you’re a successful entrepreneur. Take Leonardo da Vinci. Described as an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician... [Read more of this post]

