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First-Mover or Fast-Follower: Which is the right innovation strategy for you?

Idea to Value

This can require significant marketing and sales effort to change. It’s enough to capture more than the fair share of profits in the category, but it also means that other people are spending significant promotional dollars in advertising to boost the overall category. Customers are happy with their current solution.

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Companies that last through recessions share this marketing tactic

Brunner

Some stop advertising. Others want their agency to say, ‘We’re only going to focus on hard, cold sales.’ Marketing isn’t optional — it’s a ‘good cost,’ essential to bringing in revenues from these key customers and others,” according to the HBR article, written during the peak of the Great Recession which lasted from 2007-09.