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Stop Selling and Add Value | N2Growth Blog

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Today’s consumer (B2B or B2C) does their homework, is well informed, and buys…they are not sold. I "sell" day to day B2c and B2B and its about relationship and problem solving. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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The Pricing Strategy that Can Save Brick and Mortar Stores

Harvard Business Review

As retailers tally up sales from the crucial holiday period, the early returns look good: spending rebounded in 2010, with MasterCard reporting a 5.5 percent — and the 2010 holiday season may mark the first time that online spending accounts for more than 10 percent of all gift purchases. percent increase over the previous year.

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Top Line Growth? There's an App for That

Harvard Business Review

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. Amazon, and eBay in B2C commerce and Covisint and GS1 in B2B. Executives searching for sources of top-line growth should look at what's already in their hands — literally. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our analysis showed the top 20 firms in Fortune 's 2010 list of fastest-growing companies received $3.40 coffee sector revenue grew from $28 billion in the late 1990s to $47 billion in 2010. Another telltale sign of category creation is that it comes with a distinctive business model and profit model. of revenue growth. Yet total U.S.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

This is not 2010, a lot has changed over the past couple of years. This goes for B2B, B2C, and B2B2C markets. If you can present all of your ideas and concepts within 2 minutes, there is no point in adding another five minutes. Myth #2: That you need to publish as frequently as you can.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.”

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