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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

After decades of formally documenting the stages of business-customer relationships, we’ve learned that many companies become complacent in their endeavor to understand, satisfy, and embrace the emotional needs of consumers. Some participants interacted with a version of the website that used exciting, amped-up marketing language.

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A celebration of consistency. A legacy of insight.

Strategy Driven

Mark Ethridge, then-publisher of the Charlotte Business Journal, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and my good friend and supporter, said that publishing Sales Moves was his most impactful marketing decision of 1992. KEY POINT OF UNDERSTANDING: Document as you think. Stay tuned – and thank you for your loyalty.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

If they INVEST in your business, treat it with appropriate legal documentation as if with any other contact. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Loyalty is paid for one way or another.

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Drink Your Way into the Middle Class

Harvard Business Review

This delightful tour through the history and marketing of the “amber restorative” is a blueprint for how to use our aspirational desires to sell us lots and lots of stuff — all over the world. Possibly: Kilduff is investigating whether fierce competition with another company can improve group cohesion and loyalty.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.