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19 Tips & Ideas on Starting & Running Your Own Business

Miles Anthony Smith

Experience of working in that industry will give you a much greater understanding of the way that your chosen market works, and will help you identify potential customers, growth opportunities and marketing strategies. This will help you assess whether you like the industry before taking the leap. Get some new qualifications.

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Don't Do What You Love

Harvard Business Review

But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. So I worked hard to instead steer him to policy-research assignments and, after the campaign ended, he turned that into a career. No one wants a job or a career they hate. What's your recipe for career success? You're too emotionally attached.

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Pig Wings: Creating Demand in a New Category

Harvard Business Review

Buffalo Wild Wings, a Minneapolis-based restaurant chain that specializes in wings, has a market cap in excess of $1 billion. I've encountered many super consumers in my career, but few are as passionate as the phylum called "Pork Dorks.". Americans love chicken wings. More than 80% of households eat "the other white meat."

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Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

Harvard Business Review

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy. Unless the companies make radical changes, the best talent will go elsewhere. And many Fortune 500 companies will just go away.

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

All too often, when marketers talk about their “social strategy,” they really mean a digital marketing strategy implemented on social platforms, rather than using social dynamics to benefit their business. Pepsi actually lost market share and fell to number three in the cola wars for the first time in modern history.

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