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Selling Secrets of the Home Shopping Network
If a great salesperson can sell an air conditioner to an Eskimo, Joy Mangano can sell clothes hangers to a nudist colony. Mangano is a home improvement megasaleswoman on the Home Shopping Network, and her technique, along with other top sales folks on the channel, were recently...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Joy Mangano, Home Shopping Network, Norton Co.
Blog posts 2008-06-26
7 Tips for Managing Price Hikes
Following the historic 9 percent run up in oil futures June 6, expect your customers to be more concerned than ever about prices. But it's not just customers you have to worry about -- you need to be thinking right now about how to manage your business through the deepening...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, John Quelch
Blog posts 2008-06-10
Money CAN Buy You Happiness
New research suggests that you can spend your way to happiness. The catch I mean the benefit for yourself and society is that you have to spend it on others. In an article for the journalĀ  Science, the researchers report: Our findings suggest...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, happiness, Norton Co.
Blog posts 2008-06-04
Two Monumental Airline Screwups -- One JetBlue Recovery
Not much love was flying JetBlue's way on Valentine's Day 2007. You remember the stories. Trapped in the teeth of a sudden storm, JetBlue customers were stranded on New York runways, some for more than six hours, and many were delayed days to reach their ultimate destinations....
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, JetBlue Airways Corp.
Blog posts 2008-04-04
What the Xbox Tells Us About Market Competition
Academics are increasingly studying strategy and competition in markets dominated by "platforms." What's a platform? They are products created to be platforms on top of which other companies can sell products and services. Cell phones are a platform -- they provided a multi-billion business for ring...
Tags: Game players, Games, Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft Xbox
Blog posts 2008-01-04
How Developing Countries are Developing Medical Tourism
The first time I heard about US folks outsourcing their heart surgery or hip replacement to doctors in India or China, it sounded crazy. But clearly the rise of "medical tourism" -- traveling to different countries to have a medical procedure done less expensively, more expediently, and in some cases...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, Sean Silverthorne, Tarun Khanna, Apollo Hospitals, developing country
Blog posts 2007-12-19
Where is the Steve Jobs of Health Care?
Big markets attract innovators, right? US health care is a $2 trillion operation. And nearly everyone would agree the American system is outrageously expensive, leaves out large chunks of the population, and provides incredibly poor customer service. Normally a market opportunity like this would attract innovators...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Sean Silverthorne, health care, innovator, Steve Jobs
Blog posts 2007-12-13
Closed Book: The Problem with Kindle
Amazon's new electronic book, Kindle, addresses many of the mistakes made by previous entries in this highly unsuccessful market. Better display. Low-priced titles. Built-in networking. Too bad Amazon forgot the key ingredient to technology platform success: openness. David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet...
Tags: Benefits, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2007-11-30
Simplicity isn't Simple
In life, it is usually easier to say no than yes. But in product development the opposite is more likely true -- it's hard to turn down a major customer asking you to add more features to your product. Resist the temptation. Feature creep adds back-end...
Tags: Financial services, Sean Silverthorne, ING Direct, Taylor
Blog posts 2007-11-08
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