
The dull real product wins on margin, not on looks I sell pumps, not ebooks about how to sell ebooks, and it turns out the boring product is the one with the fewest serious competitors. Business content tells you to chase the sexy, the viral, the new. That is exactly where competitors pile up and margins thin out. This book sides with the boring product, the spare part, the repair service, the commodity people buy because they need it rather than because they were tempted, and uses Porter's industry structure to explain why dullness is often an unexpected moat. Audiences: A founder drawn to whatever business is trending this quarter — Jumps into the crowded sexy market and gets ground down on price. An operator embarrassed that their product is unglamorous — Sees peers selling exciting things and feels behind for selling a dull necessity. A reseller deciding between a hot trend and a steady commodity — Is tempted by the trend's upside and blind to its competition and decay. Note: written from Indonesian operator context. Frameworks apply broadly to other emerging-market and SME settings.
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McKinsey & Company, Competitive Strategy, Deloitte, boring business, Bought-from-need versus bought-from-temptation goods, industry structure, Industry structure and the five forces that set the margin ceiling, Why the sexy market attracts too many players, Picking the small deep pool over the large crowded one, barriers to entry, Warren Buffett, five forces, niche, margin, Surviving a grinding industry, and when to leave it, McKinsey & Company, Michael E. Porter, Barriers to entry that arise precisely from being unglamorous, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
McKinsey & Company, Competitive Strategy, Deloitte, boring business, Bought-from-need versus bought-from-temptation goods, industry structure, Industry structure and the five forces that set the margin ceiling, Why the sexy market attracts too many players, Picking the small deep pool over the large crowded one, barriers to entry, Warren Buffett, five forces, niche, margin, Surviving a grinding industry, and when to leave it, McKinsey & Company, Michael E. Porter, Barriers to entry that arise precisely from being unglamorous, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
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