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Credibility Crisis: 4 Sure-Fire Strategies for Cultivating Consumer Trust

Strategy Driven

These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. This overwhelming demand for consumer attention and dollars has created a market filled with cynics, whose defenses are on full alert.”. Companies that do this effectively will most certainly amass market share.”.

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Protest Oregon's Proposed New Fundraising Law

Harvard Business Review

Related to this, the law reinforces bad analysis of telemarketing — which is sometimes the only fundraising option available to less popular causes. Often we hear that a telemarketing firm takes 90% of what it raises. If that were true, there'd be a lot more people in the telemarketing business. Not very profitable.

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B2B Salespeople Can Survive If They Reimagine Their Roles

Harvard Business Review

A company’s goal should be to integrate its arsenal of traditional and emerging digital marketing tools and specify where the field salesperson should be involved, if at all. Fortunately, B2B executives can draw upon sound guidance when reformulating their sales and marketing efforts. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Can We Finally Eradicate Bad Products?

Harvard Business Review

Today, consumers, not marketers, rule the roost. As consumers, we readily dictate how and when marketers reach us. The price-quality inference, a time-honored marketing concept, will surely continue to operate. Price usually signals quality. Bad products were always bad for consumers. Now, they're bad for business, too.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions. The Profit Proposition.