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Stop the War Before It Starts
There are several ways to stop a price war before it starts.
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Ways to Fight a Price War
Nonprice Responses
Reveal your strategic
intentions and capabilities
Compete on quality
Co-opt contributors
Price ... them to see the error of
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One way companies can
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customers to risk—
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... plain to see:
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informed and instructed, most people would very much prefer to be doing something else.
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Coca-Cola was the twentieth best wealth creator among publicly
traded U.S based companies, by 1995 it was fourth and in 1996 it
was first.
In 1995 and 1996 the total return on Coca-Cola stock exceeded
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