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differentiation

One of the most common requests I get from clients is, “how can I differentiate my business/product/service/offer?”
The trade-off is clear. You can escape commodity-pricing and increase the flow of new and repeat business by being clearly and compellingly different. But part of being different is being willing to turn away, sometimes even offend, [...]

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B.L. Ochman reports on a few of the key conclusions in eMarketer’s 15-page, $695 2006 Business of Blogging report. One, in particular, I want to comment on:

Blogs are a great way to avoid seeming interchangeable with competitors.

With apologies to Marshall McLuhan, here’s the glaring flaw with this thinking…
Blogs are media.
A method to deliver a message.
Media [...]

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