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The Problem with Trend Tracking

Harvard Business Review

To qualify as a trend, something must represent an emerging consensus. Both parties are to this extent "glocal" — global and local. Seth Godin suggests that even time could be made more local. A trend, for anthropological purposes, has to be a change in how culture defines how we see and act in the world.

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How Story Platforms Help Global Brands Go Local

Harvard Business Review

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". The marketing guru Seth Godin recently announced that content marketing "is all the marketing that''s left."

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