Noted by the Readership Institute
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Giving people what they want

The latest example of success through intense customer-focus is The Week, a heavily digested weekly take on what the busy, sophisticated person needs to stay well-informed. Jon Friedman writes that The Week is gaining while Time and Newsweek are struggling "by subscribing to the most basic tenet in business: Give people what they want." He quotes general manager Steven Kotok: "It's all about utility, not achieving an apotheosis of beautiful journalism."

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