Books for managers on customer service, branding, pricing, retail and subscription models.
Set prices from the value customers get, not from cost or rivals' prices.
How to build and manage a brand, using the four parts of brand equity.
Set the price before you design the product, since most failures are pricing ones.
Recommended by: Alfred Lin, Bill Gurley, Leo Polovets
Why firms are moving from selling units to selling ongoing subscriptions, and how.
The standard analytical text on the LVMH-style brand model.
Preemptive distribution and control of the value chain.
Membership as a relationship, not a payment plan.
Retention, pricing tiers and the mechanics of renewal.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Companies lose their position by broadening; narrowing the focus wins it back.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Arianna Huffington and 3 others
Keeping customers, employees and investors is what drives profit and growth.
“In his seminal book, The Loyalty Effect, Fred Reichheld shows that a 5 percentage point improvement in retention rate” — Michael Mauboussin
Source: The Economics of Customer Businesses (Legg Mason Capital Management)
Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
The trust equation: credibility, reliability and intimacy over self-orientation.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason
Recommended by: David Cancel
Fifteen metrics that show which marketing spending works and which does not.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Jeff Bezos
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Andrew Chen
The case against surrendering the channel to big retail.
Insider account by P&G's global marketing officer.
Price is the strongest profit lever and the least managed; how to set it well.
Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin
How to design moments that make experiences richer and more memorable.
Recommended by: Jake Knapp, Joel Connolly, Michael Batko
How the advertising business is being upended, told from its most powerful rooms.
Recommended by: Alexis Ohanian, Michael Bloomberg
Challenger-brand economics against a dominant incumbent.
Recommended by: Vinod Khosla
The outbound-SDR machine that most SaaS sales teams copied.
Recommended by: David Cancel
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