This deck explores the strategies companies use to expand their markets and increase revenue. Learners discover how businesses grow through new customers, new products, new markets, or acquisitions. The cards explain how growth strategies influence competition and long-term success.
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Card 1
Increasing usage or purchase frequency within the current customer base
Explanation
Market penetration pushes deeper into the existing market by boosting volume from current customers.
Common mistake
Confusing this with market development, which targets new customer groups or regions.
Card 2
Reaching new customers without changing the core product offering
Explanation
Market development extends an existing product into new geographic or demographic markets.
Common mistake
Assuming that entering a new country always requires a new product design.
Card 3
Creating a new product for customers the firm already serves
Explanation
Product development grows revenue by adding new offerings to the existing customer base.
Common mistake
Mixing it up with diversification, which targets new products and new markets at once.
Card 4
Expanding into new markets that share capabilities with the core business
Explanation
Related diversification leverages shared technology, customers, or capabilities across different markets.
Common mistake
Believing any new product is related diversification, even if it uses no shared strengths.
Card 5
Investing in a business with no meaningful link to the current activities
Explanation
Unrelated diversification creates a portfolio of independent businesses without operational synergies.
Common mistake
Assuming any acquisition is unrelated just because it is in a different geography.
Card 6
Horizontal adds similar-stage competitors; vertical adds suppliers or distributors
Explanation
Horizontal integration expands market share at the same value-chain level, while vertical integration changes value-chain scope.
Common mistake
Confusing buying a retailer (vertical) with buying a rival producer (horizontal).
Card 7
Organic comes from internal expansion; inorganic comes from deals and alliances
Explanation
Organic growth builds on internal capabilities, while inorganic uses acquisitions, mergers, or partnerships.
Common mistake
Thinking that launching a new product through an acquired brand is organic growth.
Card 8
Establishing sales or operations in countries not previously served
Explanation
Geographic expansion adds new national markets, often requiring regulatory, cultural, and logistical adaptation.
Common mistake
Equating cross-border e-commerce shipping with having a true foreign market presence.
Card 9
Rapid footprint expansion with limited capital per new location
Explanation
Franchising leverages franchisees’ capital and local knowledge to scale faster geographically.
Common mistake
Assuming franchising maximizes control rather than trading control for speed and capital efficiency.
Card 10
Localization adapts offerings to local needs; standardization keeps them largely uniform
Explanation
Firms choose between tailoring products and marketing to local contexts or leveraging one global template.
Common mistake
Believing that localization must change the core product rather than possibly just messaging.
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