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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator. The first is to define what you need from marketing.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Quantifying the Impact of Marketing Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Marketing analytics is becoming big business. of their marketing budgets on analytics and expect to spend 11.1% In the end, analytics effectiveness boils down to two questions: Do marketing analytics improve profits or ROI? And are companies using marketing analytics effectively? For marketing ROI, the figure is 0.61%.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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How B2B Marketers Can Get Started with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

But social media marketing can offer B2B marketers a range of benefits if they take advantage of it, from increasing engagement and influencing decision making before the sales call to customizing sales messages and enhancing their company’s reputation. Instead of ignoring social efforts, they need to engage.

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Marketing Can No Longer Rely on the Funnel

Harvard Business Review

One of the central concepts of marketing and sales is the funnel — through which companies are supposed to systematically move prospects from awareness through consideration to purchase. What we found says as much about the future of business as it does about the future of marketing.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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