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Cable Providers Win Even in an a La Carte World

Harvard Business Review

And while the networks reach all those households, they don’t have to market to all of them. “[Cable networks] don’t want to deal with the mass market,” Hazlett says. If their media consumption habits stay unbundled over time, or if the world moves that way, you got ‘em.

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10 TED Talks to Help You Reimagine Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Leading business and marketing practitioner Seth Godin imagines a world where the mass market dies, where mediocrity holds no economic value. While much of Godin's thinking has come to bear true in our social media-induced world, this TED Talk will get you thinking differently about where you spend your marketing dollars.

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