Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Over the past four years, Mad Men , with its lead character, advertising exec Don Draper, has become more and more popular as evidenced by ratings, buzz and marketing tie-ins. It lets us travel the way a child travels, around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved. It's a time machine.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The people who spend more for quality, influence their friends and networks and remain fiercely brand-loyal. There’s a reason why McDonald’s is retooling menus to include healthy options, why Costco is the number one seller of organic goods in the world, and why GE puts the human experience forward and advertises on TV.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

Many find satisfaction using their influence to help others. GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2018

A business owner who does not take the time to set clear goals and objectives will travel in many different directions, and is more likely to waste time, money, and effort in the process. Consider these seven pitfalls to avoid if you want your company to flourish. Not Setting Clear Goals. Not Having Adequate Capital.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

For most of my prior career, I was a woman who: was happily married, may never have children, would earn a six figure income, was a loyal employee, was an over achiever, traveled to exotic places, would live in my dream home, and wanted to be involved in the highly charged corporate world forever! PRESS RELEASE Fort Wayne IN (PR Web) Oct.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That personal investment from owners actually began as a low-cost method of advertising. The Grill wasn ’ t advertising through the station, which meant they couldn ’ t keep bringing up the restaurant. For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Because influencers are unaware of how their particular bias restricts an answer, they have no concept if there are different answers possible, and often move forward with bad data. Like a GPS they don’t need the details of travel – what you’re wearing, what function you’re attending – to dictate two left turns.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2019

It doesn’t matter if you are an informational blog website like this one, an e-comm ship, travel website or any other niche, most people will not leave Facebook to visit your website if your Facebook page does not have trust. As a result, this type of advertising ends up being a waste of money.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Digital may be the future when it comes to publishing, but the problem today is that online publishing — and advertising specifically — doesn't make enough money. We see an opportunity to as much as double the value media companies get from display advertising by creating an effective lead-generation machine.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 10, 2010

Special edition magazines fill the shelves, newspapers feature full inserts, marketers have plastered signs with advertisements featuring local heroes, and television adds have been running all spring. If common ground is the secret to ice breaking, a love of The Beautiful Game has to be one of the most useful for the global traveler.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

advertisers will spend approximately “$17.46 Called audio branding, sonic branding, sound branding, or acoustic branding, cognitive studies show that relevant sounds and musical cues can truly influence people in ways marketers want. Station messages, for example, took into account travelers’ anxiety. of total digital spend.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Today, customers want to rely on what other diners have to say to help make decisions about where they should eat next, rather than relying on traditional restaurant advertising. Amazon has brought together a nation of readers for those who want to share their feedback about books and help influence the choices of other readers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Embedded in this idea is the parallel notion that consumers aren’t stupid, that they’re able to process information and not get systematically duped by bad information or advertising. For heart attacks, patients studied were willing to travel 1.8 Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Start with a catalog of learnings already captured and of specific learning goals for upcoming marketing programs (for example, "how can we influence 18 to 25 year olds to do X?"). Before launching a campaign, check to see which hypotheses on your learning agenda will be put to the test.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Overall, peer observation was equal in importance to the brand advertising on which companies spend billions. A recent experiment showed that the number of migrants citizens think their country should take is vastly influenced by the data they are given on what neighboring countries are doing. How well do these strategies work?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Norms for behavior in the advertising industry are quite different from norms for behavior in the agricultural industry, and so on. How you would interact with a boss at Google is quite different from how you would interact with a boss at Microsoft or Intel. Question 3: What d o you know a bout the p eople?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2014

She traveled the world giving presentations that featured these artifacts to illustrate the company’s brand promise through a visceral experience that no brochure or blog post could match. It was stuff with a story to tell, and she used it precisely for that purpose.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

News travels fast, and is easily shared thanks to the increasing role of social media in the lives of consumers and the businesses they engage with. So what is ‘reactive advertising’ and why is it important? What is reactive advertising? This – and many stunts like it — fall under the category of ‘reactive advertising.’.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

At one travel services giant, 100X more data in less than two years utterly transformed the enterprise conversation around “loyalty.” The company quickly adjusted its operational definition of “loyalty” to explicitly embrace and reward its “digital evangelicals” — customers who had enough of a virtual presence to be influencers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Advertising, often a barometer of social norms, used to feature wealthy people relaxing by the pool or on a yacht (e.g., Cadillac’s “ The Only Way to Travel ” campaign in the 90’s). We wondered if this shift would also influence how consumers perceive products and services that cater to a busy lifestyle.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Start with a catalog of learnings already captured and of specific learning goals for upcoming marketing programs (for example, "how can we influence 18 to 25 year olds to do X?"). Before launching a campaign, check to see which hypotheses on your learning agenda will be put to the test.

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Marketing Metrics Agility Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

As we highlighted in an earlier article , APIs are a technology that allow firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale, taking advantage of the far-reaching progress in digitization and the rising influence of software in our day-to-day lives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

You want a story that inspires employees, excites partners, attracts customers, and engages influencers. Most advertising agencies with creative treatments and marketing campaigns. A story that is concise but comprehensive. Specific but with room to grow. The natural step is to give the assignment to an agency.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The provider can more easily assess environmental influences on the patient’s condition, and patients more accurately reveal their daily state of being because they don’t always have to endure the stress of traveling to an office and the social anxiety of sitting in a waiting room with other patients.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

At Airbnb, CMO Jonathan Mildenhall is driving the company’s evolution to an end-to-end travel brand by reinventing “ experiential marketing.” Down: CMOs lose influence and authority. ” Alison Corcoran moved from CMO of Staples to CMO of DentaQuest, gaining responsibility beyond brand and customer engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase. The CMO and COO can wield a lot of influence by setting up a regular call, for example, devoted to a specific customer journey, such as the onboarding process. It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Specific thinking is particularly important for planning, branding, and advertising. An advertising campaign or product launch cannot target a loosely-defined, abstract person. When the product was launched in 2001 , it aimed to revolutionize personal transportation , touted as a unique way for people to travel short distances.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the rallying cry I've heard from widely read female bloggers over age 49, who are frustrated that a well-established cadre of younger women with young children — known as "mommybloggers" — garner extensive promotional contracts with major brand advertisers, while Boomer-aged women online are often ignored.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Millennials in particular, who wield a tremendous amount of influence and purchasing power, make buying decisions based largely on the provenance, manufacturing processes and overall business practices of a particular company. However, social media shouldn’t only be leveraged as a form of advertising. Transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For example, restaurants and hotels often have difficulty predicting demand for their services, because many factors influence whether, when, and where people eat out or travel. If you’re in the upper-left quadrant, you are with industries that face high demand uncertainty but low technological uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

economy seems to be approaching full employment, employees have more influence over whether and how their leaders speak out. Keurig faced complaints when it pulled advertising from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. Delta drew outrage and lost tax breaks when it decided to end a travel discount for the National Rifle Association.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

He broke off an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee (RNC) worth $1.3 CEOs have the ability to direct conversation and wield significant influence. At their best, they are leaders who think strategically, can persuade through direct discussion, networking, and exert political influence.”

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