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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. The food world committed some years ago to local supply. Seth Godin suggests that even time could be made more local. Yes, both are listening to national and international communities of taste and practice. The local trend is evident across American culture.

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How Story Platforms Help Global Brands Go Local

Harvard Business Review

Despite the chaos in the virtual absence of government, the metropolitan region of some 14 million was taken over in January by an Arabic pop music video urging people to "go crazy" by committing acts of kindness to spread happiness. The marketing guru Seth Godin recently announced that content marketing "is all the marketing that''s left."

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