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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1303 Must Read: Jobs to Be Done by Anthony W. Ulwick

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Your product might be the most important employee. There’s a new approach to product development and marketing. Rather than focus on features, or even benefits, this new outlook takes it a step further. Your product has a job. The customer is the employer. Your success will depend on what kind of “employee” your product is.

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R&B show helping you build a better business brain every day with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world

0:18.2

I'm your host your coach your teacher Omar and home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business

0:25.6

training and community online. And today's episode is a must read episode. On our

0:30.8

must read episodes I share with you a book that I've read that has influenced me as an entrepreneur.

0:36.0

I share with you its takeaways, its insights, and why you should read it too.

0:40.0

Today's must read is Jobs to be Done by Anthony Ullwick.

0:43.7

Even though Jobs to be done sounds like a productivity book, it's not.

0:47.2

It's actually a product creation and marketing book.

0:50.3

And it's been with the concept and the research that Anthony Ulook has made for decades

0:54.4

when it comes to why do people buy your product or service?

0:58.4

It all boils down to this.

1:00.5

People hire your product, your service to get a job done.

1:05.0

They have a headache that needs solving and that's why they come to you.

1:08.5

That's why they buy whatever you're offering.

1:11.0

This is a totally different lens to look at your business. your and say, hey, people need X, so I'm going to fulfill X.

1:23.7

And that's actually a flawed way to look at things.

1:26.6

This book explains how you can really win over your customers and keep customers for life.

1:31.6

I'll be sharing some examples in the real world, real companies that

1:35.2

you love and break down why you love them, because they get the job done consistently. Defining

1:41.6

what that job is, is your job as the leader of your business.

1:46.4

We're going to get into all of this, but this book was a game changer for me.

1:50.9

It really changed my mentality in a lot of ways about how we build out our

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