N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. Keep moving! Document your life.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hacktober has a number of different elements, from phishing tests and marketing campaigns to contests, workshops, and expert talks. We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center. Recognize and reward engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In addition, highly successful companies — those who are leaders in their market and have surpassed revenue expectations — are the most likely to adopt this compensation policy. Start with market rate. Begin with a good, data-informed baseline of what each employee is worth on the current talent market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Here’s what you might see on (what you’d hope is) a typical week: Competing wearables offer a variety of peer data, differentiating themselves from the mechanical activity trackers and pedometers that have long been on the market. Innovation Marketing' This sounds straightforward, and in a company with a clear strategy it is.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? Let’s start with the question of what year you should be targeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Consider these cases (with names disguised to protect confidentiality): Bill''s venture capital-backed business concept was to operate a new revenue-producing service for large U.S. In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Control your identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In most larger companies, you'll need to generate roughly 200+ responses per operating unit per period. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

At several financial services firms , for example, business units whose employees reported speaking up more had significantly better financial and operational results than others.” Instead of allowing competing priorities, focus people on a few common goals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” His goal today? “To

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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