Editor's Note: Entrepreneur Richard Branson regularly shares his business experience and advice with readers. What follows is the latest edited round of insightful responses. Ask him a question and your query might be the inspiration for a future column. Q: Do you deliberately pitch the Virgin brand as good value? If your prices are competitive, is it still possible for the public to regard your products as "the best in the world"?
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Editor's Note: Entrepreneur Richard Branson regularly shares his business experience and advice with readers. What follows is the latest edited round of insightful responses. Ask him a question and your query might be the inspiration for a future column. Q: Do you deliberately pitch the Virgin brand as good value? If your prices are competitive, is it still possible for the public to regard your products as "the best in the world"?
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To field test Ferriss' idea, we've been travelling as a family for the last 12 months in France, Spain, England, Wales, and the west coast of the United States–and all the while I've been running my start-up remotely. I've been experimenting with a variety of business applications that reside "in the cloud"–geek talk for software you access from the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. Here are a few of the applications I've found handy so far:
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To field test Ferriss' idea, we've been travelling as a family for the last 12 months in France, Spain, England, Wales, and the west coast of the United States–and all the while I've been running my start-up remotely. I've been experimenting with a variety of business applications that reside "in the cloud"–geek talk for software you access from the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive. Here are a few of the applications I've found handy so far:
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You know how critical it is to follow up initial contacts or mailings with a personal phone call, but somehow your list of calls to make always seems to get longer instead of shorter. Days or even weeks go by before you place important calls, and there always seems to be something more important to do. Why not make this the month you get off the dime and get on the phone? Here are seven steps to make it easy for you:
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You know how critical it is to follow up initial contacts or mailings with a personal phone call, but somehow your list of calls to make always seems to get longer instead of shorter. Days or even weeks go by before you place important calls, and there always seems to be something more important to do. Why not make this the month you get off the dime and get on the phone? Here are seven steps to make it easy for you:
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Back in the early 1960’s the American Marketing Association coined the term the “Four ‘P’s” as a way to describe the essential elements of the marketing mix. Since that time every first year marketing student has been taught to think in terms of product, price, place and promotion as they analyze case studies of companies real and imagined.
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Back in the early 1960’s the American Marketing Association coined the term the “Four ‘P’s” as a way to describe the essential elements of the marketing mix. Since that time every first year marketing student has been taught to think in terms of product, price, place and promotion as they analyze case studies of companies real and imagined.
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