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Finding the Sweet Spot Between Mass Market and Premium

Harvard Business Review

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. One response by established brands has been to acquire smaller companies.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. This final chapter puts it all together.

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J.C. Penney's Real Problem: The Shrinking Middle Class

Harvard Business Review

He approved marketing campaigns that told loyal Penney''s shoppers that "you deserve to look better," basically telling them that they looked less than glamorous wearing the brand they had trusted and been comfortable with for years. Indeed, in 2009, reporters at Businessweek admiringly observed that J.C. He was arrogant.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. How does this work?

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

Harvard Business Review

But despite this outpouring of expertise, many organizations still find marketing in the social era ridiculously hard to do well, if at all. Perhaps marketing in the social era is that kind of problem. The funnel is a favorite of marketers because it is linear, uni-directional, and transaction-centric.