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Is Consumer Non-Durables a Good Career Path?

Talent Anarchy 1

In today’s ever-evolving job market, individuals are constantly on the lookout for career paths that promise stability, growth, and fulfillment. Sales and Marketing One of the most prominent career paths within consumer non-durables is sales and marketing. They work on strategies to enhance brand recognition and loyalty.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. .” Brand management is an inside job. They brand themselves and the workplace.

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Poor Customer Service: The Writing is on the Wall

The Practical Leader

The company featured service in their marketing with convincing and clever branding, they had a customer service department, and they provided extensive service training to frontline staff. A deep ethic of “If you’re not serving customers directly, you need to serve those who are” must pervade the organization.

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How Marketing Can Lead Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To keep their companies in shape, managers must explain to employees what customers experience and expect. The head of marketing is typically charged with gathering market research on customers and their expectations. They don't create an ethic of being truly customer-driven. Here are three ways they can.

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Where Top-Line Growth Really Comes From

Harvard Business Review

Most of today's markets have all the competition they can handle. Companies looking for significant top-line growth need to find, and then focus their business on, something we have identified in our research as a " big-enough market insight ," or BEMI. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” competitors are entering the market. Within two years, the brand went from a small share to 25% of the Canadian market,” notes Bell.

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