Columbia House’s Faulty Business Model Can Teach Us All a Valuable Lesson

An unethical business can only be successful for so long

Sude Hammal
Better Marketing
Published in
6 min readDec 15, 2020

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Columbia House advert featuring a woman smiling excitedly at a box full of cassettes.
Source: Vox

Remember the simpler times when we didn’t have Spotify and iTunes, but Walkmans, cassettes, and CDs instead as a means to listen to music? In those ancient times, there were also music clubs, especially in the U.S., that would sell CDs and…

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