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		<title>Mental Accounting and Other Errors in Home Buying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeownership &#8211;  the American Dream. The one that contributed significantly to the Great Recession and is still responsible for the slow recovery we are seeing. There is some change in this love to own a home, among some demographics,  but not much to call it a shift. To explain why we still prefer buy vs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4138&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It isn’t ‘fair &amp; square’ for consumers, it is ‘focus &amp; simplify’ for JCPenney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Praveen Rajasekar, an aspiring entrepreneurial product marketer pursuing MBA at GeorgiaTech.  This is his detailed analysis of pricing strategy change announced by JCPenney. See his full bio at the end of the article. JCPenney (JCP) unravels a transformational plan attempting to change consumer retail experience.  Will its new ‘fair [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4124&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who will be more disappointed?</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/who-will-be-more-disappointed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upward Comparison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iterativepath.wordpress.com/?p=4118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who do you think will be more disappointed in the following cases:  You are running a raffle to give away iPad. The winner will be picked using raffle tickets. Each person gets either a blue ticket or a yellow ticket. There are 100 each and the tickets are numbered sequentially with blue tickets numbered from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4118&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article I should be calling &#8211; What can we learn about business from brothels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mustang Ranch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Case studies are an effective way for learning business concepts. Invariably these case studies are about most boring businesses, like some silicate factory struggling with falling revenue. Occasionally we come across some truly entertaining ones that are accessible to all and very nicely illustrate application of core business concepts. It would serve you well to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4105&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Bye Price Tags, Price Lists, Pricing Pages, Posted Prices</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/bye-bye-price-tags-price-lists-pricing-pages-posted-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the price?  The question almost all of us ask before we make our buying decision. Is the price right? That we do not know.  But we want to see the price. Hence there are posted prices everywhere you go. Price tags on the garments Price labels on store gadget displays Prices written on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4079&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We need regulations because our original business plan didn&#8217;t consider these disruptions &#8230;</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/we-need-regulations-because-our-original-business-plan-didnt-consider-these-disruptions-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food cart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Startegy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone studying business model disruptions, a rich case study is unfolding across the nation, from coast to coast, one food cart at a time. Let us not make this a culinary argument and look at this purely from business perspective. If you have not been following the stories here is a summary, Food carts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4075&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And you thought Steve Jobs was the first to use store design as a marketing tool</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/and-you-thought-steve-jobs-was-the-first-to-use-store-design-as-a-marketing-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iterativepath.wordpress.com/?p=4040</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The stories of Steve Jobs&#8217; obsession with details and his effective use of Apple stores are not new. We are all mesmerized by an anecdote in Isaacson&#8217;s book that describe how Mr.Jobs was personally involved in picking color of the wood panel for the stores. Just so you know there have been others. Here are some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4040&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s not a product until &#8230;</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/its-not-a-product-until/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://iterativepath.wordpress.com/?p=4024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you think of a product what comes to your mind? When does a product become a product? Take a moment and and complete this sentence It&#8217;s not a product until ______________________ I saw what I believe is the most correct way to complete this sentence. I am not sure if I would have come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4024&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Results from the Quiz on Probability of Retweet</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/results-from-the-quiz-on-probability-of-retweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the question I posed some time back on finding probability of a tweet with a link being retweeted? The quiz was a fun way to make the audience realize for themselves the futility of any tips they see on improving retweets. 390 people took the quiz and answered it, (40 because I asked, 350 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=4018&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you charge for a service that you just made up?</title>
		<link>https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/what-do-you-charge-for-a-service-that-you-just-made-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rags Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cost based pricing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all would like to believe there is nothing like our product or service. After all we are innovators and our vision is to change the way people do things. The investor pitch deck from a startup, Everest, sums up this attitude Let us take all such claims at face value and treat every one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iterativepath.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5950535&amp;post=3990&amp;subd=iterativepath&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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