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Artificial Persuasion: The Invisible Brand

Leading Blog

William Ammerman states in The Invisible Brand , “ AI will play an increasingly important role in our lives in the years ahead as marketers turn vast amounts of computing power to the problem of influence people’s decisions.”. As a business, the challenge is how to best use this technology to promote ideas and products.

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Think SoLoMo or SoCoLoMo – Social Commerce, Local & Mobile – For Digital Success

Modern Servant Leader

eCommerce Influence: By 2016, more than half of the dollars spent in US retail will be influenced by the Web. Influence on Retail: By 2016, $689 Billion will be influenced by mobile retail. In all key decisions, consider how these digital trends will influence the future. Deloitte: The Dawn of Mobile Influence.

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Managing Social Technology By Stages

Harvard Business Review

Companies adopting social technologies externally and internally can expect great value from energizing brand advocates and streamlining business practices. He is senior vice president, idea development, at Forrester Research. These social applications are springing up all over the company. How do you manage all this?

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84% of B2B Sales Start with a Referral — Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, 84% of B2B buyers are now starting the purchasing process with a referral, and peer recommendations are influencing more than 90% of all B2B buying decisions. Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem.

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What the Heck Are We Doing on Twitter?

Harvard Business Review

Two things we said in the original Groundswell (2008) were (1) pick a corporate objective before implementing a social technology strategy and (2) keep an eye on this Twitter thing, it's going to be big. We do this ourselves, noting who mentions Groundswell, "Bernoff", or Forrester (my employer).

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Why haven''t we seen more and more companies earning excellent scores in Forrester''s Customer Experience Index ?

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Morning Advantage: Meet the New Robber Barons

Harvard Business Review

It's easy to assume the rise of state-owned wealth funds would have a dampening effect on innovation; that government investors are more likely to fear disruptive influences than to promote them. Unprompted Advice for the Service Desk (Forrester Blogs). Au contrare, notes Joshua Kurlantzick. to Airbus in Europe. to Airbus in Europe.