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If Coke Needs Retail Leverage Then You Do Too

A KILLER APP FOR RETAIL LEVERAGE:

Coke’s Freestyle system hits on several of our 5 points in how to gain Retail Leverage.

#1 Have The Hot Product With No Substitutes
#3 Be A Top Revenue Vendor

TAKEAWAYS FOR ANY MARKETER:

No matter how big your brand is, you still need Retail Leverage
If they big guys need leverage, what does that say about the smaller challenger brands?
Figure out what you have to exploit that others don’t and leverage it.
If you don’t have something unique / different / better, then be prepared to move to the 6th, rarely spoken of, painful way to get Retail Leverage: Price.

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Hot Product With No Substitutes = Retail Leverage

We’ve come up with 5 strategies / paths / scenarios on how you get Retail Leverage. This will start a series of posts that examine each of those 5 examples.

1. “Have The Hot Product With No Substitutes”:

The Nintendo Wii example advocates channeling all of your resources into one product, especially if you have a product where there are no substitutes. Continue reading

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