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Make These Changes to Help Digital Marketing Fulfill Its Potential

Harvard Business Review

The promise of digital marketing continues to grow as big data gets bigger and is turbo charged with mobile and social. In theory, digital marketing should be more precise and better than traditional analog marketing. So why is digital marketing still so ineffective? But Super Consumers care about benefits and innovation.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Innovation in Cities. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Most budgets for 2013 were made in 2012, when the prevailing economic outlook was grim. The societal factors that have made America strong in the past continue today: its diversity, thirst for innovation, entrepreneurship, and institutional support for risk taking. Position yourself in market segments that will grow.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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12 Guidelines for Deciding When to Persist, When to Quit

Harvard Business Review

Consider this real-time case. Airtime, a video conversation platform, launched in the summer of 2012 by Napster legends Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning with much hype and more than ample funding. Pull out in the messy middle, and by definition the effort is a failure. The issue is deciding which direction to take.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. In 2012, according to the State of Women-Owned Businesses Report from American Express Open, there are more than 8.3 million in 2011.

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