Book Review by Taylor Berrett Turn Anyone into a Cheerleader for Your Ideas Innovative thinking is hard to come by. While everyone is capable of coming up with creative solutions to problems, tapping into our
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Ensuring Marketing Success in the Digital Era
In a new age when marketers are struggling with the digital transformation of business and the changing behavior of customers, the celebrated promoter of the Four Ps of Marketing, Philip Kotler, explains with his co-authors
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As technology has evolved in the last several decades, marketing has had to change with it, evolving through four significant stages that build on the strategies and tools of the previous era. What happens next
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Why do people act differently in various online spaces, and what do they seek from participating in each one? In The Hidden Psychology of Social Networks, author Joe Federer draws on evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroanatomy,
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by Rob Fishman The upscale retailers I call “champions” – those who position themselves for success in a brutally competitive market – distinguish themselves by setting up a powerful long-term engagement strategy. They give customers
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by Deb Gabor I was successfully click-baited a few days ago by a MarketingWeek article. I can usually avoid temptation, but this one’s a guilty pleasure. Here’s the headline: “Ben & Jerry’s CEO on why
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An anomaly is defined as something that deviates from what’s standard, normal, or expected. When you are new to the business world, as author Zack Miller once was, you have to be different. He did
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by Simon Kingsnorth Content marketing remains central to any successful strategy and so below are 5 tips to help you optimise your content strategy. 1. Plan, plan and plan. Good content resonates with the reader.
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by Matthew Pollard Many businesses feel as though the only way to obtain a competitive edge over their competition is through price. This conclusion, while seemingly obvious, in actuality couldn’t be further from the truth.
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by Kevin Kruse Can a single word generate a 7x increase in sales in one year? It was in 2004 when I met a pharmaceutical brand director (I’ll call him Dave) who was credited with
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WARNING: Do Not Read This If You Hate Money In The 1-Page Marketing Plan, author Allan Dib contends that a business owner must become good at the business of what they do—not just their technical
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In their book The Influentials, Ed Keller and Jon Berry identify how the most influential Americans get ideas and, more importantly, how they spread them. Influentials, who aren’t necessarily the richest or the best educated,
Continue ReadingStoryBrand Framework: Marketing Strategies Rooted in Ancient Knowledge
Marketing budgets eat up an enormous amount of company money. We all know that. What is another thing we should all do well to remember? Websites don’t sell things. Words do. When brands attack a
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