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Consulting Tip 5: How to Think About Business Models to Avoid Commodity Work & Commodity Fees

Johanna Rothman

When consultants ask these questions, the consultants assume they are showing their unique value. They're showing how they only offer commodity, and too often, inadequate, consulting. Worse, these consultants give all consultants a bad name. I explain how in Successful Independent Consulting.)

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Who to Satisfy? Differentiate Buyers, Users, and Customers for Effective Product Decisions

Johanna Rothman

When the User is also the Buyer, as in a mass-market product, they might ask you for features. Not all mass-market Buyers are also users. If you create a mass-market product, you can choose when and as much access as you want. Consultants do this all the time when they sell workshops. Users use the product.

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Pre-Product Market Fit: Ten Great Books for Product People

The Product Coalition

Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Competitive analysis: “Blue ocean” (Kim, Mauborgne) Don’t get stuck into consulting matrixes. It gives you a way to identify your value propositions to differentiate. ??????????? Eventually they run out of cash and shut down. Are any books missing?

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Product Demos: How to Sell Solutions Versus Products

Product Management University

It’ll make differentiation easier and improve your sales win rates. If this is the case, longer and more difficult sales cycles lie ahead and differentiation becomes more difficult. It’s things like combatting price erosion for core products, being first to market instead of last, stemming declining market share, etc.

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Creating and Marketing Cybersecurity Products by Richard Reiner

Mind the Product

In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Richard Reiner , Executive Chairman at dfuse , takes us through various case studies and lessons learned from his experience building and marketing products in the cybersecurity space. Surviving in a maturing market at Enomaly. Surviving in a Maturing Market at Enomaly.

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Ship Decisions: Use Value to Decide When to Experiment and When to Finalize

Johanna Rothman

As a consultant, I create many kinds of information products: both writing and speaking. However, too many organizations don't differentiate between what they need to ship as experiments and when to finalize the product. That feedback arises from my writing, speaking, and consulting. I use that feedback to build more MVPs.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Move from a Staff Role to a Line Job, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

While managers can determine how different various developers, testers, UX, etc people are, very few managers can differentiate one agile coach from another. ”) If your company is publicly traded, market analysts will look at the P&L to analyze both the SGA and R&D costs. But I’ve consulted for a long time.